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The fact that Jerald L. Tillman, founder of the National African-American Insurance Association, is battling Nationwide Insurance over his disputed termination is big news because racial diversity is

Columbia Journalism Review deserves one of its own critical "darts" for backing up a Bloomberg Markets cover story from last September--"The Insurance Hoax"--that was one-sided and misleading, says NU

How far must agents go to prove their independence? Must they send customers to competitors with better prices and coverage? Or is that taking the concept of serving clients with "utmost good faith" t

With premium volume dropping, underwriting losses soaring and the third-quarter bottom line plummeting into negative territory, you have to wonder if the industry will end up in the red when the books

Neither Sen. Barack Obama nor Sen. John McCain have the guts to tell America the hard truth about Social Security--that the government for years has "borrowed" the trust fund's surplus, and has no inte

Now that Uncle Sam has bailed out AIG, what happens next? Can enough assets be liquidated in a fire sale atmosphere to repay the federal loan in time? How will AIG reassure nervous risk managers whose