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As reform efforts gather speed, insurers seek to provide input.

Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers says public option for health care endangers private market.

New work has begun on an amendment to the first universal standard for motor vehicle event data recorders that may aid in insurers’ fight against insurance fraud.

The losses and declines in market value associated with the recent economic environment reveal new insights about the complexity of risk.

While new channels and options continue to arise, there has been no significant culling of existing channels, which could pose a problem, according to the firm.

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) wonders "If we have institutions that are 'too big to fail,' have we not failed already, since they create a systemic risk?"

Position created to help oversee insurance operations at American International Group.

Clean, solid data is fundamental to mitigating risk, but insurers continue to slide by with poor information.

Both sides in the debate over federal regulation of the insurance industry find something to like in the new financial blueprint.

Life insurer now has no long-term debt maturities until 2011.

Parts of the plan, including giving the Fed sole authority to police risks to the financial system, eliminating the thrift and specialty charters and scaling back national banks' preemption powers, are likely to prove too ambitious to succeed.

Witnesses say size should not be the sole consideration when determining which enterprises pose a threat to the economy as a whole.

Like their insurance carrier customers, Forrester research shows insurance application vendors also are looking to expand into new geographic markets.

Citing states’ history of consumer protection and market stability, the state-based insurance regulatory system is one of critical checks and balances, says Illinois Insurance Director.

Amount sufficient, says Conning Research, but long-tail claims are now thinning reserves.

Pointing to “gaps and weaknesses” in the supervision and regulation of financial firms, AIG is identified as the government’s most visible example of a firm that escaped the “strictures” of serious holding company regulation.

Starting a service-oriented architecture project requires a push from the business side; IT can’t do it alone.

A.M. Best and Fitch Ratings announce a number of changes, including an affirmation of Fidelity Investment Life Insurance and Pacific Life, and a downgrade of Highmark Inc.

Willis Group Holdings chairman and CEO says the insurance industry can take advantage of the need for greater transparency in business transactions resulting from the financial crisis.

ACORD LOMA and IASA will be a scant 10 days apart, but will marketing budgets support attendance at both?