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While the use of telematics-based insurance to date has primarily been seen in monitoring personal-vehicle use, insurers are increasingly relying on the underwriting tool in the commercial-fleet and trucking industries.

As telematics data becomes an increasingly valuable and more widely accepted tool for writing risks, its adoption is rapidly growing in the commercial sector.

A rise is cargo theft reporting in 2011 is the result of more data-sharing between law enforcement and the transportation and insurance industries, says CargoNet.

Former AIG chief executive Maurice Hank Greenberg isnt giving up on his $25 billion lawsuit against the U.S. over its bailout.

Its official. 2011 was one of the best claims years for the aviation-insurance market, and that translates into soft-market conditions continuing into 2012, according to a report released by Aon Risk Solutions.

The earthquake that shook the mid-Atlantic region seven months ago is taking an expensive toll on houses of worship that went without earthquake insurance.