Today's Headlines National Over the last few years organizations took action to strengthen the financial position of their captive insurance company operations, while ... Property insurance rates could be on the rise thanks to first quarter catastrophe losses, including the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, ... Nearly a third of Americans report that businesses are not doing enough to protect them from workplace discrimination and identity ... Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) has expanded its catastrophe risk engineering services to cover industrial and renewable ... A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating (FSR) to 'D' (Poor) from 'B-' (Fair) and issuer credit rating (ICR) to "c" ... A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of 'A' (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of "a" of ... A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of 'A' (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings of "a" of the life and non-life ... General Star has made a number of changes to its umbrella fuel oil program, distributed exclusively by program administrator S. H. Smith ... Markel Corp. has enhanced their management liability suite of products. These changes are an expansion of Markel's capabilities ... The lawyers professional liability market has been in flux recently, and insiders say carrier uncertainty and a strain on capacity are to...  East Days after a series of tornadoes blew through Virginia, officials still are trying to determine exactly how much damage was done and what ... A former champion Chinese gymnast has filed a $1.8 billion lawsuit in federal court against Time Warner Inc. and the United States ... Hays Cos. of Washington, D.C. has named Shari Pataky senior vice president. She will focus on professional liability insurance and affinity ...  Midwest Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has vetoed legislation that would have changed the legal standard workers must meet when they file discrimination ... A jury has awarded $48 million to relatives of five people killed when a skydiving plane crashed shortly after takeoff from a rural ... Authorities in a southern Illinois city menaced by two dangerously swollen rivers said on May 1 that most of the city's remaining ... Missouri insurance regulators say major homeowners and auto insurance companies in the state have received nearly 7,000 claims from St. ... North Dakota's per-capita rate of on-the-job deaths remains among the highest in the country, a new report shows. Officials cite the ... United Fire & Casualty Co., headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has reported a slight drop in net premiums earned and total revenues ... Ohio's governor wants the state to lower the premiums employers pay for workers' compensation by 4 percent for a total cut of about $65 ... Southeast A Florida man has been sentenced to death for the murders of two women he doused with gasoline and set on fire during the robbery of a ... The federal Emergency Management Agency says 17 Alabama counties now qualify for disaster assistance to homes and businesses damaged by ... Federal officials vowed urgent support Sunday for a region devastated by the deadliest U.S. natural disaster since Hurricane Katrina, even ...  South Central In firefighting circles, they are considered the best of the best. Hotshots, they're called a specially trained assortment of federal ... Frost Insurance Agency Inc., the insurance subsidiary of Frost, has acquired Clark Benefit Group, an independent San Antonio-based ... Gov. Mary Fallin is requesting federal assistance for storm-battered Atoka County in southeast Oklahoma where initial damage estimates show ...  West Oregon's Constitution requires that the state Legislature meet in Salem. So what would happen if disaster struck Oregon and lawmakers ... A California Assembly committee is considering a bill that would eliminate the authority of the insurer to deduct the amount paid to the ... J.D. Turner, a partner at the law firm of Lorber, Greenfield & Polito LLP, in Poway, Calif., has joined the Insurance Women of North ... CMR Risk & Insurance Services and Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. have partnered to donate $8,000 to the Burn Institute in San Diego, to ... Los Angeles-based Mercury General Corp. has reported net income in the first quarter 2011 was $58.2 million, compared with net income of ... International Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S. assault on his Pakistani compound Monday. He was then quickly buried at sea, in a dramatic end to the ... Economic risk is the greatest threat today's business leaders face, followed by legislative and regulatory changes and increased ... Somali pirates hijacked a Singapore-owned product tanker about 180 miles [290 kms] off the coast of Kenya, said port officials and the EU's ... Deep sea search parties have found one of two flight data recorders from an Air France plane that crashed off the coast of Brazil in 2009, ... Axis Capital experienced the same catastrophic losses that affected almost every re/insurer in the first quarter. CEO and President ... Japan's government will not put a cap on the liabilities faced by Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) for damages stemming from its crippled ... In an article published on its web site Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said it has outlined its "updated enterprise risk management ... A.M. Best Co. has upgraded the issuer credit rating (ICR) to "bbb+" from "bbb" and affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of' ... 
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