Growing up in the 1950s in a family where many members worked in the insurance industry, I considered insurance to be something quite different from business or finance or a job.

Only those who have been dead for the past nine months are unaware that the great city of New Orleans was hit by Category 4 Hurricane Katrina.

After almost every major disaster, the government and media proclaimed that these were the "worst disasters America has ever suffered."

In this, the first of a three-part series, the Iconoclast examines the factors that make this country's infrastructure vulnerable to terrorist attacks, and what effect such attacks might have on the

After almost every major disaster, the government and media proclaimed that these were the "worst disasters America has ever suffered."

Warning of a hazard is great, but eliminating it is far better.

Fatal bridge collapses are not uncommon.

We in the claim business are going to be encountering an increasingly diverse cultural mix of insureds and claimants.