The prognosis for the financial health of medical malpractice insurers seems cautiously optimistic, despite continuing economic uncertainty and a range of challenging underwriting conditions.

In spite of the impact of an economic recession and the unraveling of one major competitor, the property-casualty insurance business--and the specialty insurance market, in particular--remain strong, according a specialty carrier executive.

Insurance regulators are charged with making personal lines insurance widely available. Nothing has undermined the industrys image more over the years than the battles between ...

Establishing a national regulator responsible for overseeing solvency and insurance pricing and products would help fix the "critical shortcomings" in the property-casualty insurance industry's current state-based regulatory structure, a report says.