Earlier this week, Brown & Brown reported net income increased $5.5 million, from $35 million, or 25 cents a share, to $40 million, or 29 cents a share. Revenues in the quarter increased 11 percent, o

A rise in reinsurance costs, insurance capacity shortages from Hurricane Katrina and a shift in catastrophe modeling services have reduced availability of earthquake damage coverage, an insurance brok

ORLANDO--The two men running to succeed him as Florida governor have made "foolish" proposals to deal with the state's problems with the property catastrophe insurance market, Gov. Jeb Bush told an ins

J. Robert Hunter, Director of Insurance for the Consumer Federation of America, said industry figures "provide continuing evidence that the skyrocketing insurance rates of 2000 to 2003 have led to rec