Risk

If signed into law, all residents will be eligible for coverage under the system, dubbed “Green Mountain Care.”

Treasury establishes insurance advisory council to assist newly created federal insurance office.

Update designed to improve on best practice standards with stronger integration across asset classes and between functional layers.

The President's lawyers go to court Tuesday to try to save the cornerstone of his health care overhaul, arguing that the requirement for Americans to buy insurance is constitutional.

AIR Worldwide estimates insured losses from late-April U.S. storms, while EQECAT predicts a significant market loss from the March 11 M9 Tohoku quake.

Meaningful use may relegate imaging systems to a secondary role.

Aon says loss results of recent disasters, coupled with pending Solvency II requirements, demand re-evaluation of catastrophe models.

In anticipation of the new Solvency II regime, as well as the eventual merging of the broader formal accounting rules policies from both the United Kingdom and United States, insurers need to strengthen their risk cultures. So says a report issued by global professional services firm Towers Watson, which recently measured the temperature of more than 80 delegates from a wide range of insurance companies.

Republicans are strongly considering using a rare procedural move to prevent President Obama from installing Elizabeth Warren as CFPB director.

Financial and political hurdles continue to dog policymakers and serve to create a stalemate that will affect the program’s fate.

In a joint letter, 44 Senate Republicans said they would not support any candidate unless Congress enacted legislation that would replace the agency's director with a commission.

Historic tornado outbreak in the South contributed in excess of $1.3B insured losses, including $1B in Alabama alone.

The changes are intended to help assess the natural catastrophe risk to industrial facilities and wind and solar energy installations.

Democrats argue the bills have less to do with improving the new agency, and more to do with Republican opposition to Elizabeth Warren.

Bill seeking to hamper implementation of the Affordable Care Act advances to Senate.

Experts debate big data’s impact on financial services and the U.S. economy.

Executives in the C-suite are counting on risk managers to take a more active role in integrating enterprise-wide risk management with their broader strategic goals for the organization, according to a survey results released by Marsh and the Risk Information Management Society (RIMS).

AEGON, Aetna, Berkshire Hathaway, Harleysville, Progressive and others all received updates.

The White House keeps insisting it hasn't made a final choice, but there's a growing expectation that Elizabeth Warren will soon get the nod.

Insurers may learn from bank IT execs' plans regarding the rapidly multiplying risks that result from the use of mobile devices outside the firewall by both executives and consumers.