Regulation/Legislation

Catastrophe risk modeler AIR Worldwide on the NFIP risk model, private-market opportunities and modeling flood risk.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners should answer tough questions about what it is and the true scope of its authority, according to a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee.

Residential policies need to be simplified because customers are confused about what their policies protect, said Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of New Yorks Department of Financial Services, in an exclusive interview with Bloomberg.

Republicans are not allowed to blow up the government to get rid of a law, says commentator, writer, actor, and presidential speech writer Ben Stein.

A federal court in Miami has cleared the way for final action in a force-placed insurance lawsuit against J.P. Morgan Chase that is consistent with the emerging belief that federal courts are going to come down harshly on the side of consumers in FPI litigation.

While bracing for the worst, property and casualty carriers with big medical components in their loss costsparticularly those covering workers compensationmight actually have good reason to hope for the best when the health insurance reform law, better known as Obamacare, is fully implemented.