Security risk

Deloitte’s Sam Friedman suggests the industry can use its influence to impact the national agenda.

The filing will also help the company avoid a Securities and Exchange Commission move to appoint a receiver, which could lead to a liquidation and make an appeal of the judgment impossible.

In what has become a buyer’s market, underwriters must get creative to maintain their profitability.

Dan Daniel will serve as Crawford’s VP of catastrophe services, focusing on strategic growth and service delivery.

The consulting company acquired the P&C insurance actuarial service to boost its counsel and enhance its advisory services.

The insurer is mounting the strongest opposition yet to a provision of the 2010 Dodd-Frank law, which was passed to prevent future financial crises.

After weeks of uncertainty, President Barack Obama Signed Into Law the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2015, making terrorism insurance affordable and available.

Rick Roberts, director of risk management for Ensign-Bickford, has served on the nonprofit’s board for seven years.

Having passed both the House and Senate, the Terrorism Risk Insurance and National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers acts advance toward Presidential approval.

The legislation, which includes a measure to enact the NARAB Reform Act of 2015, now moves to the U.S. Senate for approval, after it expired on Dec., 31, 2014.

The bill now goes to the Senate for a vote that would send the measure to President Barack Obama to be signed into law.

INN and Celent recognized the insurance industry’s most innovative solution providers and carriers at our eighth annual awards ceremony in New Orleans.

The ruling subjects MetLife to stricter Federal Reserve oversight; the insurer can appeal in U.S. district court within 30 days.

New offerings target MGAs, TPAs, workers comp, self-insureds and mutual carriers

J.D. Power and RIMS report that large business commercial insurance customers are most satisfied when insurers and brokers deliver on customer service, price and claims.

The near failure in 2008 of American International Group Inc., which required a $182.3 billion bailout, highlighted the risks of insurers.

Easing the regulatory burden is the happy by-product of many core system upgrades.

The insurer expanded this year to more than $900 billion in assets, passing Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to become the fifth- largest company in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index on that basis.

Efforts to reauthorize the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act for six years fell apart after Senator Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican who is retiring, held up the legislation.

Insurers are learning that compliance doesn’t always have to be about red tape and adding cumbersome new procedures.