Last week's cold snap in the Northwest will be among Washington State's top six severe cold-weather events of the past 25 years, according to Seattle-based PEMCO Insurance.

The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (Office) has reached an agreement with State Farm Florida that will allow the insurer to remain a significant player in the Florida residential property insurance marketplace.

One of the challenges insurance technology leaders dealt with over the past year was to create better transparency as IT helped its business partners deal with the economic realities of 2009.

All new business of Foremost Insurance Group will be written on Dwelling Fire One and Dwelling Fire Three policies.