The New York Insurance Department expressed "disappointment" at the decision by two producer groups to file suit last week to stop implementation of a compensation disclosure regulation.

There is only about a month left for independent agencies to enter the 2010 Commercial Insurance Agency of the Year Award program, run by National Underwriter and its sister publication, American Agent & Broker. Read on for entry details.

One Sacramento, Calif.-area grocer will pay more than a half a million dollars in penalties after dissuading employees from filing legitimate workers' compensation claims.

The National Flood Insurance Program will lapse June 1 because of congressional inaction, meaning insurance agents will not be able to provide new or renewed insurance policies under the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Write Your Own Program.