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Expanding the insurance industry's workforce diversity, including recruiting and developing more female executives, is not only good politics and good corporate citizenship, but good business, one award-winning woman suggests.

Both supporters and opponents of a new federal oversight system for the insurance sector all found something to like in the Obama administration's white paper proposing sweeping reforms of financial services regulation.

The average total cost of risk, made up of insurance premiums retained losses and risk management administrative costs, fell 9.4 percent per $1,000 of revenue in 2008, according to a survey.

Property-casualty insurers' reserve adequacy "deteriorated" in 2008, ending with a 0.4 percent--$2.2 billion--deficiency that will hurt their earnings, an investment firm said.

Language in a $30 million Lloyd's policy does not exempt the insurer from lost revenue claims from Taco Bell restaurant owners after a 2006 e-coli outbreak, a New Jersey Court has ruled.

A provision in a bankruptcy court settlement for asbestos injury claimants that barred individual lawsuits against carriers was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday.