AIR Worldwide is positioning its new catastrophe modeling platform, Touchstone, as a keystone tool for the insurance marketplace.

AIR Worldwide is positioning its new catastrophe modeling platform, Touchstone, as a keystone tool for the insurance marketplace.

PartnerRe Ltd. says the pretax cost of Junes central European floods will fall between $50 million and $60 million.

The nanotechnology industry is increasing in its potential to cure and cause environmental havoc, but can insurers keep up with the risks of a fast-growing market that may generate about one trillion US dollars in the next two years?

The nanotechnology industry is increasing in its potential to cure and cause environmental havoc, but can insurers keep up with the risks of a fast-growing market that may generate about one trillion US dollars in the next two years?

Last year was the safest in U.S. mining history, with the lowest fatality and injury rates since the stats have been kept.

Hardening market conditions caused the average total cost of risk (TCOR) among 14 industries to surge by five percent in 2012, shows the 2013 RIMS Benchmark Survey, produced by Advisen Ltd.

High tax rates are the top risk identified by North Americas business leaders in 2013, shows to Lloyds of Londons biennial Risk Index of more than 500 global executives.