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Firefighters are making progress in California's siege of wildfires, but forecasters warned that weather was turning back in favor of the flames. "A high pressure system is setting up over the enti

Aon Risk Services Southern California, a unit of Aon Corporation, has appointed Brendan Dolan as senior vice president of the financial services group.

Gov. Ed Rendell has signed into law the first comprehensive update to Pennsylvania's mine safety law in nearly half a century. It addresses emergency shelters and accidental breaches of flooded min

Jacksonville, Florida-based insurer The Main Street America Group named Joe Meholic president of its Richmond, Virginia region. Meholic, who has extensive background leading property-casualty oper

The Iowa Supreme Court has issued an order delaying deadlines for the days that a half-dozen district court offices were closed due to flooding. That means the courts, lawyers and other people inv

A new mathematical model indicates that dust devils, water spouts, tornadoes, hurricanes and cyclones are all born of the same mechanism and will intensify as climate change warms the Earth's surface.

John Charman, chief executive of Bermuda-based Axis Capital says insurers are caught between softening policy rates and volatile investment markets, a situation he expects to hurt returns. "You cou

Beazley Group, a risk insurance and re-insurance business, has introduced MPL Secure, a miscellaneous professional liability and network security liability policy form designed to provide coverage that fits the needs and exposures of the current marketplace.

Actuaries play a pivotal role in property/casualty insurance mergers and acquisitions, but they can make even larger contributions by taking a broader business approach, according panelists as the rec

The federal judge who oversaw the eight-week trial of two lawyers accused of conspiring to defraud their clients out of $65 million in a diet-drug settlement won't handle the retrial. U.S. Distric