Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced that policyholders in 43 parishes impacted by Hurricane Gustav will have until Sept. 30 to pay insurance premiums due on or after Aug. 30, witho

A.M. Best Co. said it has downgraded the financial strength rating and issuer credit rating of Bermuda-based Lehman Re Limited, a wholly owned reinsurance subsidiary of financially embattled Lehman Br

On April 12, 1861, Confederate guns opened fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, signaling the beginning of the Civil War. Now, some 147 years later, another momentous shot was fired as Applied S

The Bloomington, Ill.-based carrier, which has 21 percent of the Texas market, said it has a thousand team members staffing high-tech, centralized catastrophe services in Dallas and Jacksonville, Fla.