A Treasury Department official last week threw cold water on legislation creating a joint federal-state program to backstop state-sponsored insurance programs that provide natural catastrophe

U.S. District Court Chief Judge Garrett E. Brown Jr. in Newark, N.J., tossed out claims by over three-dozen commercial lines clients that insurance brokers conspired to control and allocate customers

Workers' compensation insurance prices should be determined by the free market instead of the Compensation Insurance Rating Board--the insurer association that now proposes rates--New York State

Insurance texts report that the "heart" of the insurance business is indemnity. After a loss, claimants--at best--should be placed in their pre-loss financial position. No claimant should profit from a