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Despite widespread publicity about the need for preventive measures to avoid the flu, nearly a third of workers in a poll said they have not altered their behavior.

Legislation that would repeal the antitrust exemption provided health insurers and medical malpractice carriers through the McCarran-Ferguson Act is being pushed by two powerhouse lawmakers.

The debate over wind-versus-water homeowner claims is not quite as cut and dried thanks to a ruling by the Mississippi Supreme Court in a Hurricane Katrina case.

A federal jury in Manhattan, after an 11 week trial, found Exxon Mobil liable for a $105 million in damages for contaminating part of the New York City well water supply.

There's been a lot of talk on the acquisition front by excess and surplus lines insurance companies, but little action to date--even in a year that followed back-to-back declines in organic growth for the segment overall.

A U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board proposal, intended to improve existing financial statements' fair value accounting measurements, will actually make them difficult to compare and interpret, an insurance industry group said.