Congress should launch federal regulation of the insurance industry with oversight of bond insurers, mortgage insurers, and reinsurers, the chairman of a House subcommittee said yesterday.
John Houldsworth, who turned government witness in the securities fraud case involving American International Group and General Reinsurance Group, was sentenced to probation yesterday.
The New York Insurance Department, after more than a year of consideration and a hearing, formally proposed a regulation today expanding the list of difficult risks that can be insured by other than New York- licensed carriers.
The Arizona Captive Insurance Association (AzCIA), said Christopher S. Murray of Midwest Insurance Group, Inc., RRG, has been elected the group's new president for 2009-2010.
Maurice R. Greenberg denied on the witness stand yesterday afternoon that there were restrictions on American International Group stock he is accused of misappropriating.
Fitch Ratings said it will take no rating action on Max Capital Group Ltd. after the Bermuda reinsurer withdrew its bid for a merger with IPC Holdings Ltd.
One clear example of green technology that's paying dividends is "thin client," a network computer without a hard disk drive that operates on yesterday's mainframe model.
Supporters and opponents of a new federal regulatory regime for the insurance sector all found something to like in the Obama administration's white paper on financial services regulatory reform.