A senior Republican member of the House Financial Services Committee plans to introduce legislation next week that would bar federal regulators from designating insurance companies as systemically significant.

The cyclical change in the marketplace no longer tops the list of concerns for W.R. Berkley Chairman and Chief Executive Officer William R. Berkley, who says that while economic activity may have slowed the pace of the market turn, the cycle is indeed changing and prices are rising.

The cyclical change in the marketplace no longer tops the list of concerns for W.R. Berkley Chairman and Chief Executive Officer William R. Berkley, who says that while economic activity may have slowed the pace of the market turn, the cycle is indeed changing and prices are rising.

Some of the world's largest insurers for corporate directors and officers could be on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars in claims over the next few years to cover legal costs for people caught up in the Libor scandal.