Prudential Financial Inc. has agreed to pay $615 million in cash to acquire the Hartford Financial Services Group individual life insurance business.

Britain's consumer watchdog could on Friday call on competition regulators to probe the motor insurance market just as its biggest player, Direct Line, enters a critical phase in its planned stock market listing, London's biggest in over a year.

The Risk and Insurance Management Society is offering two fall webinars for risk professionals seeking to expand their knowledge of the industrys most current topics.

A report from A.M. Best says insurance regulators in developing nations need better data and stricter risk-based supervisory models to preserve solvency as the markets in these countries grow.