Insurers and brokers are ready and eager to back the construction industry, which stands to gain $132.2 billion from President Obama's economic stimulus package, said A.M. Best in a March 9 article. U.S. insurers receive $7 billion to $9 billion

The Wheaton, Ill.-based American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS) said it has made a nationwide filing of some additions to policy language for use with commercial insurance policy forms.

There is now a large combine of states investigating the details of American International Group bonus compensation for executives, a spokesman for the New Jersey State Attorney General's Office said yesterday.

The owner-operator of a fish farm in Chenango County, N.Y., reeled in $66,100 in fraudulent workers' compensation benefits from the New York State Insurance Fund before being caught.