Most Recent Articles from Risk & Insurance

• A stellar ratio 

  In a period of worsening combined ratios in the property/casualty sector, there is at least one ratio the industry can be proud of: the number of...

  10/15/09 by Cyril Tuohy · More from publication

• Catastrophe bonds extend gains 

  Catastrophe bonds, used by investors to bet against natural disasters, had as of the second week in September advanced for a record 10th straight...

  10/15/09 · More from publication

• Allstate settles age bias class action 

  Allstate Insurance Co. has agreed to pay $4.5 million to about 90 former employees to settle an age discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal...

  10/15/09 · More from publication

• Merrill employees sue, alleging discrimination 

  Five fire safety directors of West Indian descent have sued Bank of America unit Merrill Lynch, alleging discrimination. In a complaint filed,...

  10/15/09 · More from publication

• Dinallo criticizes contingent commissions 

  Former New York Insurance Commissioner Eric Dinallo denounced brokerages' use of contingent commissions at an insurance industry conference in...

  10/15/09 · More from publication

• The FedEx fight 

  Some experts fear that any ultimate adjudication in favor of the employee status could put companies and carriers on the hook for past injuries...

  10/15/09 · More from publication

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