Florida Gov. Rick Scott has signed what the insurance industry is calling the most significant auto insurance law in decades.

Insurance technology solution provider Ebix has joined with veterinary-hospital information management system CurePet to deploy the first cloud-based Pet Insurance Exchange.

Aon reports net income dropped 3 percent for the first quarter of this year as foreign exchange translation and investment in internal operations impacted the results.

Swiss Re sounded an upbeat note for 2012 and said reinsurance prices could rise further after it posted a forecast-beating profit for the first quarter thanks in part to the absence of large natural catastrophes.