Purchasing insurance for catastrophe-zone properties is close to undoable, but elsewhere competition for property coverage is increasing rapidly and prices are falling quicker than expected, one major

Driven by an annual fraud loss of $30 billion, the nation's property and casualty insurance companies are taking aggressive action based on a two-year, industry-wide review of their fraud fighting efforts.

Several insurers have finalized settlements with claimants over disputed homeowner losses stemming from Hurricane Katrina.

Online dispute resolution company Cybersettle has recently introduced Cybersettle 6.0.