Disasters in the last decade have caused catastrophic property damage and business interruption losses totaling hundreds of billions of dollars. What's one of the first questions a risk manager's boss always asks? "Were we covered?"
Theresa Brown of Sandia , in an Aon flu outbreaks teleconference, said schools need to close before 1 percent of the population is infected, and the statement there is "high probability" H1N1 will recur in Mexico was not made by Dr. Brown.
Itasca, Ill.-based insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. said it has acquired Sellers Group, LLC, of Woodlands, Texas. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Ambac Financial Group reported a 2009 first quarter net loss of $393.2 million, narrowing its loss in comparison to the 2008 first quarter net loss of $1.7 billion.
If Bernard Madoff had been under the jurisdiction of insurance regulators, he would have been caught sooner, a National Association of Insurance Commissioners official said here.
The health care industry--including health insurers, it was learned--pledged in a letter to President Obama today to work at trimming the cost of health care by $2 trillion or more over 10 years.
Armonk, N.Y.-based financial guarantee insurer MBIA Inc. said it has separated the positions of chairman and chief executive officer to "maintain the highest standards of corporate governance."
Wildfires in the Santa Barbara region of California have claimed a total of 77 homes putting home loss value at around $38.5 million according to figures supplied by a catastrophe risk modeling firm.
A letter from a congressional committee probing American International Group's use of taxpayers' bailout money reveals that a still-secret company restructuring plan has quietly involved U.S. banking officials.