Rep. Heath Shuler, D-N.C., will address the Annual Young Agents & InsurPac State Chairpersons Legislative Luncheon at the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America Legislative Conference & Convention.

The fire at the Triangle Waist Co. in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 young immigrant workers 100 years ago in March 1911, is one of the worst disasters since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

People in emerging markets are recognizing the need to protect their basic assets—and the insurance industry is developing the infrastructure to deliver microinsurance. Can this be the model for small U.S. business, too?

Despite all the advances in technology making the information highway a speed ramp of data, fighting insurance fraud still takes the hard work of gumshoe investigators to get the job done.