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NU Editor In Chief Sam Friedman once again peers into his crystal ball to predict what might be in store for the property-casualty insurance industry in the year ahead. Check out his forecast and

The Daytona Beach, Fla.-based broker said it acquired Baker, Thomsen Associates Insurance Services of Newport Beach, Calif., and Gallagher Associates Inc. of Blackwood, N.J. Terms of the deals were

The property-casualty insurance trade groups will be challenging the new Congress to deal with a host of industry issues when it starts work next Tuesday, none more important than the industry's

The commercial insurance premium market cycle is near bottom and general commercial insurance prices will start to rise by the fourth quarter of 2009 or the first quarter of 2010, Advisen Ltd.,

With increases in fraud and legal fees spiraling upward, insurance carriers will need to deal with a growing number of claims burdens globally in 2009, executives of insurance broker Aon said,

In the wake of rumors that XL Capital Ltd. is up for sale--with the company admitting only to exploring "value-enhancing opportunities available to it"--Standard & Poor's lowered ratings on the firm's