Nationwide Insurance reports a 2011 second-quarter net loss of $292 million, driven almost exclusively by weather-related losses that were among the highest the company has ever experienced in the first half of a year.

Theres a silver lining in every cloud, and for specialty insurers theres opportunity present in every emerging risk, two carrier executives say. Navigators Stanley Galanski and Aspens Mario Vitale see product opportunities in responding to emerging life sciences, environmental and supply-chain risks.

Highlighting the possibilities of unforeseen events, risk correlations and concentrations, and even reputational disasters potentially keystrokes away, the world is getting riskier, say two industry veteransWilliam R. Berkley and Patrick G. Ryan.

Exigen Insurance Solutions, a provider of insurance core systems, announces that BillingCore v3.6 is now available. BillingCore is a best-of-breed component of Exigen Suite, an enterprise suite for policy administration, billing, and claims management.