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“Misguided” provision mandating additional expense reporting will place burden on insurers, says mutual association.

Property/casualty industry has until 2012 to comply with new mandatory reporting requirements on liability claims.

Study: major companies, including insurance companies, saved median $271M annually from better top-end investments.

S&P revises outlook on CIGNA Corp., Moody's affirms Liberty Mutual Group Inc. ratings and A.M. Best assigns ratings to Unitrin’s “Automatic Shelf” Registration.

Insurers executing a reinsurance program are faced with getting it right the first time.

S&P report ponders consequences of interest rate risk to insurance industry.

Accounting standards board won't wait for the appointment of new board members to pursue its ambitious agenda of rule changes.

Risks can be mitigated by utilizing stronger data security programs, Ernst & Young report says.

Latest figures show employment in property/casualty industry at 20-year low.

Fitch says pension shortfalls still not a material credit concern for U.S. insurance industry.

Android and iPhone are starting to crush Blackberry when it comes to business use and consumer app development.

Insurers may want to keep an eye on trends in IT that will focus on development for social media and mobile devices, Gartner says.

Against volatile stock markets, insurers benefited from increases in investment income and improvements in capitalization, notes A.M. Best report.

Analyst firm expects agent channel to give way to non-traditional channels such as bancassurance and aggregators.

Despite barbarians at their gates, Moody's reports that P&C insurers remain financially sound.

Aetna president says company will seek new avenues for growth in response to new law.

Insurers, among others, warned the Financial Stability Oversight Council that designating companies as systemically important could do more harm than good.

USAA's banking arm is disguising new technology through old-fashioned, face-to-face service.

More IT spending will shift its strategic use to better understand customers and markets, improve products and increase sales opportunities, survey says.

A number of insurers have begun to release their financial results for Q3 2010. The following is a compilation of their announcements: