After five years of helping to reinvigorate Aon Corp., Ted Devine, a senior executive, left the firm in 2009 to pursue his dream of helping inner city youths become better citizens.

After five years of helping to reinvigorate Aon Corp., Ted Devine, a senior executive, left the firm in 2009 to pursue his dream of helping inner city youths become better citizens.

The sad shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla. is at the center of a controversy that has no end in sight, and could bring other parties into question over liability, including insurers.

Property and casualty insurers could see a drop in the value in their fixed-income-securities investments if interest rates climb as expected, says Moodys Investors Service.

After suffering through a year of elevated property losses and poor underwriting results in 2011, U.S. commercial-lines insurers are positioned to deliver improved operating results this yearbut carriers will still struggle to reach previous profit marks, one analyst says.

A survey of personal-lines insurance customers indicates that insurers and agents need to focus on the younger generation of buyers to grow market share, or risk losing this generation to online-only writers.

Robert S. Goldstein, former chairman andCEO of the managing general agency BenefitPort Mid-Atlantic, has come out of retirement to launch Unique Insurance Concepts LLC, a Palm Beach, Fla.-based holding company that aims to acquire surety agencies.

Sixteen state insurance agencies failed a national evaluation by the State Integrity Investigation, a private research project sponsored by the Center for Public Integrity, Global Integrity and Public Radio International.