Microinsurance is not an act of charity but a business model that can pay insurers real dividends while helping the impoverished climb back from natural catastrophes, says the Chairman of Swiss Re America.

Microinsurance is not an act of charity but a business model that can pay insurers real dividends while helping the impoverished climb back from natural catastrophes, says the Chairman of Swiss Re America.

Verisk Analytics new Verisk Crime Analytics division will help the company assist both law enforcement and crime victims in the private industry, a Verisk executive says.

Verisk Analytics new Verisk Crime Analytics division will help the company assist both law enforcement and crime victims in the private industry, a Verisk executive says.

Are insurers and reinsurers poised to manage the substantial losses from the tornadoes that wreaked havoc on the Midwest?

Swiss Re says its subsidiary Swiss Re Capital Markets has placed a $200 million insurance linked security with the capital markets that has the unique feature of covering the reinsurance exposures of two carriers.

Swiss Re says its subsidiary Swiss Re Capital Markets has placed a $200 million insurance linked security with the capital markets that has the unique feature of covering the reinsurance exposures of two carriers.

March 22, 2012 marked nine years to the day when Alice Ross, a 71-year-old grandmother, was killed in a no-fault auto insurance fraud scheme, and the day when the New York State Senate passed three bills aimed at stemming the multimillion-dollar stage-and-fraud crime trend.