The Risk and Insurance Management Society is standing behind the establishment of the National Association of Agents and Brokers, a clearinghouse that would help producers gain multi-state licenses.

Even as the number of workers compensation claims declines, the number of questionable claims is increasing, according to an analysis by the National Insurance Crime Bureau.

AIG CEO Robert Benmosche is under heavy fire from a senior Maryland Democratic congressman after comparing the intense criticism of bonus payments made in 2009 to AIG Financial Products executives to the lynching of blacks during the civil rights battles of several decades ago.