Personal Lines

Insurance regulators, in a surprise move, have voted to let insurers file their climate risk disclosure survey responses on a voluntary, confidential basis.

The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., will seek to improve driver safety among its insureds by working with an outside vendor committed to using technology to improve driving behavior.

Five years after a tsunami devastated Indonesia and the Southeast Asia Region many homeowners in the United States still remain without proper insurance coverage in the event of a natural catastrophe.

The American Association of Insurance Services has developed a countrywide filing of a new earthquake rating plan under its homeowners program.

The New York State Insurance Department has directed two insurance companies to reinstate 260 homeowners policies in the state after following up on four homeowner complaints filed with the department.

The Mississippi Insurance Department is transferring $19 million to the Mississippi Windstorm Underwriting Association to help stabilize coastal homeowners insurance rates.

Insurers challenged the results of a report from the Massachusetts Attorney General that questions the state's relatively new auto insurance "managed competition" system.

Back in January, a top broker said we were entering our "first 'invisible' hard market," with price hikes hidden by shrinking insurable exposures. NU Editor Sam Friedman examines how that prediction played out in his blog at www.NUSamSoapBox.com.