PWC found there were 108 derivative actions filed in state court last year. Combined with the federal court filings, the total was 214, compared with the combined figure of 173 cases in 2005 and "only

Willis Group Holdings reported a 21 percent increase in first-quarter net income--pushed upward by the brokerage's new business, management said.The New York-based insurance broker posted ...

The firm said it has entered into a multiyear property catastrophe reinsurance agreement with Ajax Re Limited, a Cayman Islands-domiciled reinsurer, to provide up to $100 million of reinsurance covera

"In August it will have been two years since [Hurricane] Katrina. We are now one month away from the start of another hurricane season on June 1, and there is no time like the present to apply lesson

A Connecticut consulting firm is inviting companies to participate in a study it is conducting that it describes as the first national survey of midsized employers' workers' compensation cost control

The Branchville, N.J.-based property-casualty carrier reported net income was $37.3 million, or 62 cents per diluted share, compared with $40 million, or 64 cents per diluted share, for the first quar

Are risk managers better off without the federal government looking over their shoulders? Some might think so, buoyed by a report in the New York Times about OSHA taking an increasingly passive role o

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