Xactimate 25, a product from Xactware, boasts several changes, but one of the most useful is how the software has gone multi-lingual.

Third-quarter insured catastrophe losses for 2007 reached their lowest levels in five years, due largely to relatively few large-scale events.

According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau's (NICB) annual "Hot Wheels" report, 1.2 million motor vehicles were stolen in 2006.

"The association continues to take important steps toward raising the expectations for program business operations," said Jack Russell, executive director of Fireman's Fund Specialty Programs, and cha