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Aon Corp. said it has appointed Peter Lieb, currently senior vice president, general counsel and secretary at NCR Corporation, as Aon general counsel and executive vice president.

She saw opportunity where no one else did. Bedford-Stuyvesant was full of beautiful owner-occupied brownstones, but hardly anyone wanted insure them. Her firm would fill ...

In reporting consolidated results, p&c groups mistakenly emphasized the industry's financial strength rather than the fact carriers had the worst first-quarter on record, says NU Editor In Chief Sam Friedman in his blog today at www.NUSamSoapbox.com.

The loss of a jetliner with 153 aboard in the Indian Ocean off the coast of the Comoro Islands will impact prices in the aviation insurance market even further, a broker with Aon said.

The loss of Air France Flight 447 off the coast of Brazil could have a hardening effect on aviation insurance rates, an aviation insurance expert said, but the full impact probably won't be known until year's end.

Language in a $30 million Lloyd's policy does not exempt the insurer from lost revenue claims from Taco Bell restaurant owners after a 2006 E. coli outbreak, a New Jersey Court has ruled.

While they may be known as property and casualty insurance agents, commercial intermediaries have no intention of sitting on the sidelines while one of their most lucrative sources of income is threatened by health insurance reform efforts.

As employers and their insurers grapple with increased numbers of employment practices liability claims in a recessionary economy, they are also facing emerging exposures associated with a changed political landscape.