A recent tech security survey for the financial services sector might give the impression that the insurance industry has awakened to the threat of cyber-risks, but one analyst warns that there remains much room for improvement.
There appears to be no letup in the commercial property and casualty soft market, as average premium prices deteriorated after showing some signs of stability over the past year, according to a producer association.
After several years of doing without contingent commissions, insurance broker Aon said it plans to begin accepting the bonus payments from carriers once again, drawing fire from risk managers and one of its chief competitors.
Recent concerns over public entities' credit quality is not expected to materially impact U.S. property and casualty insurers' capital position, despite the insurers' heavy investments in municipal bonds, Fitch said.
The Travelers Companies Inc. experienced a 9 percent drop in 2010 second quarter net income when compared to the same period last year as $439 million of record pre-tax catastrophe losses cut into profits.
Insurance broker Marsh, a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies, said its specialist international placement broker Bowring Marsh has opened an office in Asia--the company's ninth office.
State insurance regulators and legislators have a long way to go to implement a federal law that goes into effect today and is meant to modernize surplus-lines regulation.
Weather Services International (WSI) is now calling for 19 named storms, slightly downgrading its initial predictions in response to a slow start to the 2010 hurricane season.
Policyholders suing American International Group (AIG) over allegedly excessive workers' compensation rates can continue to do so, the Supreme Court of South Carolina has ruled.