Risk Management

In the latest defeat for a government attempting to use public nuisance law against a lead paint manufacturer, a Wisconsin appeals court ruled last week that the statute does not apply in a case broug

Q. Florida Underwriter: The Cat Fund has been getting some very negative comments lately from the Florida Insurance Council, A.M. Best, and other industry observers. How bad do you think things are,

SAN FRANCISCO--Securities class actions are being brought with more institutions as plaintiffs and show no signs of decreasing, despite the imprisonment of one of the nation's busiest class action lawy

Arbitration Forums Inc. (AF), which provides inter-insurance company dispute resolution services, announced it had saved insurers more than $700 million in litigation costs annually through its progra

In the case--E.H. Webb Blessley and Donna L. Blessley v. Fire Insurance Exchange; Orange Restoration dba ServiceMaster AAA Restoration, heard in the Orange County Superior Court--plaintiffs H. Webb Bles

The broad exemption historically applied to surplus lines insurance under Florida law was recently called into question by the decision handed down by the Florida Supreme Court in Essex Insurance

The Rhode Island Supreme Court will hear an appeal regarding whether auto insurers in the state must conduct a "labor rate survey," and use the results as the sole factor in determining prevailing aut

With politics, laws, economics, and elections currently uppermost in everyone's minds, we asked a cast of Florida insurance experts to opine on legislative and regulatory "hot topics" of their