While emerging distribution options could threaten the viability of insurers that are overly dependent on agents and brokers, they also represent opportunities to drive growth.

While premiums drop as automation makes driving safer, there will be new risks.

Users of Samsungs troubled Note 7 smartphone are urged to turn off and stop charging them by a U.S. safety agency as aviation authorities around the world order passengers not to use them during flights.

Millennial small-business owners are more likely than Generation X or baby boomers to have plans for natural disasters, retirement benefits, cyberattacks and business succession.