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Swiss Re, announcing what it called a move to "capture efficiency gains" following its purchase of GE Insurance Solutions, announced last week that it will reduce its global work force by 2,000

ChoicePoint has acquired Insuratec Inc., a provider of lien holder and mortgagee notification services to the property/casualty insurance industry. Insuratec, based in Danville, Calif., notifies

The property-casualty industry faces its first post-Katrina "wind vs. flood" court challenge in a bench trial that opened last week in a Mississippi federal district court, and while confident of a

Growth potential unlimited, but local regulations, trade barriers restrict opportunities

"It's a vindication," said Gordon Woo, a catastrophist in the London office of Risk Management Solutions, which did a risk analysis concerning the possibility of event cancellation due to terrorism f

The House's Capital Markets Subcommittee is scheduled to vote Wednesday on whether it will send to the full House the Non-Admitted & Reinsurance Reform Act (HR 5637), a committee spokeswoman confirmed