Insured losses from the recent explosion of the Deepwater Horizon Drilling Platform in the Gulf of Mexico could reach $1.5 billion, according to Transatlantic Holdings, Inc.

Anxiety is growing within the agent and broker community about rules in New York going into effect in January 2011, requiring them to disclose to their clients information about compensation received from insurers.

Insurance companies know definitively that unethical business practices are ultimately unprofitable.

Health care reform will change much of the medical services delivery system as we know it, but its impact on workers' compensation, while likely significant, will be indirect and accidental--as well as both positive and negative.