Heading a section of the Education Committee that designs sessions for the Insurance Accounting and Systems Association (IASA) Education Conference sometimes feels a bit like running a company.

Heading a section of the Education Committee that designs sessions for the Insurance Accounting and Systems Association (IASA) Education Conference sometimes feels a bit like running a company.

Author Walter Isaacson has studied some of the worlds foremost thinkers and he has come to believe, innovation emerges at the intersection of knowledge and creativity.

Author Walter Isaacson has studied some of the worlds foremost thinkers and he has come to believe, innovation emerges at the intersection of knowledge and creativity.

Experts say factors contributing upward movement on mid-year reinsurance rates will continue to drive rates higher in 2012.

Almost every discussion of 2012 reinsurance rates for U.S. property risks touches on major changes in catastrophe modelsboth the recently released Risk Management Solutions (RMS) version 11.0 U.S. Hurricane Model; and, to a lesser extent, AIR Worldwides revisions released last year but only now making their way through the system....

Almost every discussion of 2012 reinsurance rates for U.S. property risks touches on major changes in catastrophe modelsboth the recently released Risk Management Solutions (RMS) version 11.0 U.S. Hurricane Model; and, to a lesser extent, AIR Worldwides revisions released last year but only now making their way through the system....

Retail property and casualty agents nationwide are adapting to the new realities of "For Rent" signs on shop windows and foreclosure notices on home lawns.