"Most businesses these days are concerned with e-security issues, but only a small portion of them do anything about it," said Jim Ruel, senior vice president of small-business insurance at The Hartfo
WASHINGTON--Over time, the deficit in the National Flood Insurance Program can be expected to grow by $900 million annually because the program was designed to be subsidized, according to a new Congres
According to the California Department of Insurance, Commissioner Poizner has deployed initial response teams to perform damage assessments with the State Fire Marshal and dispatched his Disaster
A Louisiana federal judge who stunned carriers last year by finding that many of their policy flood damage exclusions do not hold water, appears to have seen the law differently in 2005, according to
In the midst of what is becoming a never-ending string of legal motions, complaints, and filings, the Scruggs Katrina Group filed yet another law suit in Mississippi that alleges a pattern of
Insurers could soon face an onslaught of payment demands for so-called "stigma damages" claims as the number of environmental contamination claims and suits for methyl tertiary-butyl ether--a gasoline
The legal battle between a major insurer and a high-profile plaintiff attorney over claims for properties damaged in Hurricane Katrina expanded on three new fronts last week--with a judge's call to
Authorities are finding that states with the best success in fighting auto accident fraud rings are taking extremely forceful action, frequently using various branches in a combined effort backed by
The Scruggs Katrina Group filed a federal lawsuit in Mississippi today accusing State Farm, an engineering firm and an adjusting concern of a racketeering conspiracy it alleges had defrauded a group o
William Stander, assistant vice president and regional manager for the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI), said the group had urged the governor not to sign the bill because such