Today's consumers are focused on value for money. P&C insurers, in turn, are perpetually striving to reduce the cost of handling claims. Here are 10 helpful suggestions to reduce costs.

Bond insurer Assured Guaranty Ltd filed new claims against JPMorgan Chase & Co over a mortgage-backed security sold by Bear Stearns, saying more than 35 witnesses have come forward to testify about how loans in the $337 million transaction were misrepresented.

Insurers can play a vital role in the development of renewable energy by producing risk-transfer programs and making corporate investments themselves, says insurer Munich Re.

Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., one of the primary authors of financial services reform legislation passed by Congress last year, says he will not return after his term ends in 2013.