Watch videos of the devastating tornado that ripped through the small southwest Missouri town of Joplin last night, May 22, 2011.

The focus of the social media conversation is on “rewards.” What is the ROI? How much will business increase? How many new recruits and customers can my company expect to draw in through social media? However, the social media risk conversation is still emerging and forming.

An information model that precisely defines insurance-industry concepts and the relationships among them—a key element in data standardization for insurers—is at hand.

An FBI agent wrecks a rare Ferrari during a short ride in Kentucky, and the U.S. Justice Department is refusing to pay $750,000 to a Michigan insurance company that owns it.