With the looming prospect of nearly $2 billion in professional liability claim payments, fallout of an alleged Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Bernard Madoff, insurers will likely embark on more careful

Delivering bad news for directors and officers liability insurers who cover defendants in securities suits, studies show the number of class actions jumped 19 percent in 2008, and that large

The convergence of Wall Street's meltdown, falling insurance industry surplus, uncertainty over the future of medical care financing and a persistently soft commercial lines market has created a

While many specialty insurers doing the hiring this month were beneficiaries of executive departures from American International Group, there were a host of other personnel changes contributing to a