Smaller agencies selling employee-benefits services face increased compliance demands and lower commissions now that the healthcare-reform law has been upheld by the Supreme Court, but agents are not throwing in the towel just yet.

As the health-care industry anticipates a shortage of professionals and prepares for the uncertainties of government reform, risk managers in this sector discuss some of the challenges that lie ahead.

Insurance technology solution provider Ebix has joined with veterinary-hospital information management system CurePet to deploy the first cloud-based Pet Insurance Exchange.

For weeks on end in 2010, live footage of a ruptured pipeline spewing oil underwater in the Gulf of Mexico served as a 24/7 reminder of the potential for environmental devastation. Underwriters and brokers dealing with Environmental insurance initially feared the worst in terms of the disasters impact on the...