The Federal Insurance Office is asking interested parties to comment on a host of issuesincluding the potential costs and benefits of federal regulation of insurance across various linesas it works to prepare a mandated study on insurance issues.

San Francisco-based Wells Fargo & Co. says 2011 third-quarter income in its insurance-services segment improved 7 percent on a year-over-year basis, but dropped 26 percent on a quarter-to-quarter basis.

Perceptive Software, creator of the ImageNow document management, imaging and workflow solutions, has partnered with AssureSign, an e-signature provider.

California workers compensation insurers, which have been hurt by increasing underwriting losses over the past three years, should benefit from two bills signed into law recently, and from several bills opposed by the industry that were not signed, according to Moodys.