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National Insurance Crime Bureau names the 11 holidays with the most reported auto thefts.

A.M. Best affirmed USAA’s ratings, Fitch affirmed ratings for The Chubb Corp. and S&P affirmed its negative outlook on Kingsway and its subsidiaries.

The coming year will bring additional regulatory oversight and new efforts by health insurers to manage it. Health insurers will be asked to justify rate increases for individual and group policies, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Last week HHS said it will require rate increases of 10% or more to be publicly disclosed and reviewed.

Provision of Dodd-Frank Act would require agencies to issue ratings using identical terminology.

Executives from across the globe are wrapping up reports on just what went wrong and why this year, with the key goal of avoiding similar glitches in the future.

Insurers may learn something from banks' successes in the social media realm.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau may prove to be the most important agency to watch in 2011.

Setting $4.3B of credit, AIG systematically tries to exit bailout.

Sedgwick Claims Management Services purchased the unit for $278 million in cash.

Gartner predicts continued growth and increased deployment of social business technologies; cloud and SaaS remain keys to adoption.

Analyst flips the coin to uncover the biggest losers by market cap in 2010.

Perhaps no section of the law is more critical to that discussion than the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s power to unwind failing giants.

Survey finds misgivings about annuities rampant in wake of financial crisis.

SSA & Co. predicts 2011 will feature more complexity in the insurance industry and less customer service outsourcing.

Deciding which financial firms beyond banks are systemically important is one of the biggest decisions still to be made by regulators under the Dodd-Frank Act.

Business intelligence and document automation solutions introduced for insurance companies.

New figures from PCI and ISO reveal a 62% gain in net income for P&C insurers.

New report highlights best practices for ensuring that projects come in on budget.

A.M. Best affirms AIG’s P&C and life/health subsidiaries; Moody's affirms Fireman's Fund intercompany pool; Fitch affirms Lloyd's of London.

IIABA says removal of uncertainty going forward is key as President Obama signs extension of existing rates