Regulation/Legislation

Maurice Greenberg should of taken more responsibility for the trouble the economy is in today rather than just throw regulators under the bus in a speech this week, argues NU Editor In Chief Sam Friedman on his blog today at www.NUSamSoapBox.com.

President Barack Obama has been appearing everywhere and anywhere to push his health care reform agenda this past month.

The debate over wind-versus-water homeowner claims is not quite as cut and dried thanks to a ruling yesterday by the Mississippi Supreme Court in a Hurricane Katrina case.

The property and casualty industry in general supports creating a federal insurance office.

No matter how many regulations or internal fail-safe systems an organization or a government puts in place, preventing systemic economic collapses means challenging peoples' worst instincts, an enterprise risk management conference was warned this week.

W Maurice Greenberg, AIG's former chief executive, said rating agencies need government supervision, while credit default swaps should be regulated as insurance.