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A.M. Best upgrades Grain Dealers Mutual Insurance and affirms Missouri Employers Mutual Insurance, while Moody’s affirms Unitrin’s senior debt ratings.

AIG may pursue Goldman Sachs on losses from $6 billion of insurance deals similar to those that prompted the SEC's recent fraud charges against the bank.

NAIC, ISO and NICN announce streamlined reporting process.

A university study implies that young people are just as concerned as baby boomers about online privacy, but the details tell a different story.

New York City agents vote to bring suit over compensation rules, arguing that the rules should apply to the time of sale, “not when quoting the account.”

Fitch Ratings concludes that most companies experienced solid operating earnings and a significant recovery in investment portfolios in 2009. However, the industry still faces continued earnings and capital pressure.

Insurer says HP Exstream offers interactive and real-time capabilities that allow for convenient distribution of documents to policyholders.

Starting slowly and establishing best practices from the outset are two keys to mitigating cloud computing's risks.

New features of the updated insurance-linked security portfolio, Miu, include a stress test to calculate the impact of multiple historical events, and more in-depth information for each bond.

Emdeon's alliance with FICO offers insurers the ability to scan claims for patterns of fraud and abuse prior to adjudication.

Risk managers are benefitting from lower premiums, but looming catastrophe losses could portend a turn in the market, notes survey.

The agency is pushing for legislation to create a way for the government to conduct an orderly wind down of a large financial companies.

Insurers’ profitability increased to 5.8% last year from 0.6% in 2008.

New report says insurers are making slow, but steady progress remaking their core systems.

Letting customers do the work for themselves obviously saves money for insurers, but why don’t more customers do it?

Insurers will increasingly use public, shared data to make informed pricing decisions, which begs the question: How will underwriters use this new information?

The insurer added more than $2 billion to surplus for the year, expanding policyholders’ safety cushion to more than $15 billion.

Insurers must link plans to the overall company strategy already in use, and expect detours along the way, Gartner analysts say.

New report chastises insurance industry for owning shares of fast food companies.

SAS Risk Management for Insurance is designed to help insurers better assesses risks, and can be used in tandem with other analysis software.