Use of electronic health records (EHRs) may help reduce paid malpractice settlements for physicians, according to a new study. The study, which appeared in the November 24 ...

Aon Corp. has completed its $1.43 billion acquisition of Benfield Group Limited, creating Aon Benfield, reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor, which will launch on Dec. ...

Super regional insurance carrier The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. has completed the previously announced acquisition of AIX Holdings, Inc. Windsor, Conn.-based AIX Holdings ...

A livery company and its driver could be held liable in a fatal car accident caused by a drunken passenger after he left the livery van, Massachusetts' highest court ...

Fewer workers in Virginia are being killed while on the job. Federal figures released Monday show workplace fatalties declined by 15 percent, from 165 in 2006 to 141 in ...

Boston College Law School has received a $3.1 million gift from Liberty Mutual Group that will be used to establish a professorship in property and casualty insurance ...

Provider Insurance Group, a Needham, Massachusetts-based independent insurance agency, has named Kelley Tetreault its new financial services team leader. Tetreault joined ...

North Dakota's workers' compensation agency says a national study has found it has the lowest premiums in the country. Workforce Safety and Insurance (WSI) says the study ...

The Columbus Dispatch reports that Ohio had $1.2 billion in insurance claims for the third quarter of the year, trailing only hurricane-hit Texas and Louisiana. That's up ...

Burns & Wilcox recently added David Derigiotis as a professional lines underwriter in its Special Risk Division (SRD). SRD is the company's internal brokerage division located ...

North Carolina's new insurance chief agrees with insurance industry critics that the state's backup wind insurance pool, known as the Beach Plan, needs shoring up. "I have ...

Duke University has filed a lawsuit against its insurer, demanding that the company cover the costs of its settlement with three former lacrosse players who were falsely ...

South Carolina businesses may see a break on workers' compensation rates next year. The insurance industry's National Council on Compensation Insurance told state regulators ...

Officials at Jackson State University in Mississippi have opened a Department of Homeland Security research facility. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held recently for the ...

MetLife Auto & Home reported that it that it has received approval to introduce a new enhanced homeowner insurance program into the state of North Carolina. Under the ...

Quaker Special Risk, an independent full service wholesale brokerage firm, has opened a new regional office in Duluth, Georgia. Jake Terrell, with 14 years of direct ...

The Texas Supreme Court must decide if an Ohio insurance company should pay in the case of a boy injured by a driver who was speeding away from police. Richard Gibbons was ...

In New Orleans, a dire warning to flee emptied the city before Hurricane Gustav in early September. In Houston less than two weeks later, a plea to say in place might have kept ...

National managing general agent Burns & Wilcox has promoted Anthony Cugini to manager of the company's Houston office. He is responsible for increasing sales across all ...

The Texas Department of Insurance announced enforcement actions that became final during October include three license revocations and fines and restitution totaling ...

Wet and weary residents in areas scarred by Southern California wildfires were back in their homes for Thanksgiving after a day of rains brought evacuations and anxiety but ...

A federal judge ruled that the federal government doesn't have to pay for damage caused by the Hayman wildfire, the worst in Colorado history. U.S. Forest Service worker ...

Wildfires that charred thousands of acres near a central Idaho ski resort in 2007 continue to create headaches for avalanche forecasters wary of snow slides on areas burned ...

Union General of Concord, Calif., has "A" rated carriers offering both monoline and package coverage for motels and hotels.Multiple lines of coverage can be provided such as ...

Tustin, Calif.-based Yates & Associates announced that Lew Morales III has joined the underwriting department as underwriter/broker - new business P&C. Morales began his ...

Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Cal Inspection Bureau Inc., is celebrating its 20th anniversary. The company was founded by president Emil Moskowitz, who had a law degree and ...

In an interview with Reuters, Munich Re's Chairman, Nikolaus von Bomhard, expressed his hopes that fatter premiums would make 2009 more of a "normal" year after Munich Re's ...

Paying landowners to let forests grow is promoted by the United Nations as a viable way to fight global warming, but experts first have to puzzle out how to insure trees ...

China's 3 trillion yuan ($440 billion) insurance industry was largely insulated from the U.S. subprime crisis that battered AIG and other foreign firms, but the fallout poses ...

Insurance Australia Group Limited announced that it is increasing its interest in the general insurance business of AmAssurance, its joint venture in Malaysia, from 30 percent ...

American International Group has announced an agreement to sell AIG Private Bank Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of AIG, to Aabar Investments PJSC, a global investment company ...

Bermuda-based RenaissanceRe Holdings announced that its U.S. affiliate, WeatherPredict Consulting Inc., has acquired the primary technology assets of Commodity Hedgers, Inc. ...

In anew article - "Clarifying The Framework For Rating Natural Catastrophe Bonds -" Standard & Poor's Ratings Services takes a look at the factors it considers when assigning ...

Unibanco - União de Bancos Brasileiros S.A. - and American International Group, Inc. announced that they have entered into an agreement to repurchase their crossholdings in ...

Willis Group Holdings announced that 10 members have joined Willis N², its new partnership with independent, community insurance brokers in the UK, since the network was ...

A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength ratings (FSR) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of selected subsidiaries of the Bermuda-based White Mountains Insurance Group, ...

Stuart Lawson has been appointed head of Aon Trade Credit (ATC), the UK's leading credit insurance broker. He will service existing clients as well as seeking new business, "in ...

ACE Europe has announced the appointment of Colin McKellar as Director of Scotland, based in its Glasgow office. He "will assume full management responsibility for all ...

Advanced Claims Technology Helps to Modernize, Accelerate and Consolidate Claims Processing Honolulu, HI - December 1, 2008 -- BlueWave Technology, a provider of property ...