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It's easy to sell risk management in a hard market, but when premiums start to plummet, it takes a truly disciplined and even courageous agency to walk away from prospects who only want quotes for the

The May 5 National Underwriter cover story--"Should Illegal Aliens Get Workers' Comp?"--generated quite a stir with its image depicting an Hispanic man in a wheelchair, holding both an American and Me

The Scruggs Katrina Group filed a federal lawsuit in Mississippi today accusing State Farm, an engineering firm and an adjusting concern of a racketeering conspiracy it alleges had defrauded a group o

WASHINGTON--Sarbanes-Oxley regulations have caused companies to take a more risk-averse track, focusing on building their cash reserves rather than developing new products, according to a professor at

WASHINGTON--The president of the American Insurance Association plans to urge Congress Thursday "to act as quickly as possible" on legislation extending the Terrorism Risk Act so that the new program i

Thomas Holzheu, economist for the Zurich-based company, said that while rate adequacy along with terms and conditions are still good in most segments, the growing capital strength of the industry coul