Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and current Secretary Timothy Geithner both told a skeptical congressional committee today that if U.S. action was not taken to bail out AIG, Group it would have been a catastrophe for the nation.

The Haiti Earthquake caused an estimated 250,000 fatalities--and disease, starvation and lack of medical care could push the death toll higher, a catastrophe modeling firm said.

Sircon Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Vertafore Inc., has announced the release of its newest Web-based compliance service, ProducerEDGE.

Bank-owned insurance agencies' average total return on prior year value fell an annual 10.2 percent for the period ending June 30, 2009, according to Bank-Insurance Viability Index.