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Island insurance Co. Ltd., a Hawaii-based property and casualty insurance company, has launched a Web-enabled workers' compensation product called CyberComp targeted at small and mid-sized businesses.

Massachusetts officials announced new health care regulations designed to ramp up pressure on companies that don't help cover insurance costs for large portions of their workers.

Fitch Ratings on Thursday said it downgraded ratings on British insurance broker Willis Group Holdings Ltd., following the closing of its purchase of insurance and risk management company Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Co.

BLOOMINGTON, IL (MARKET WIRE) State Farm Insurance(R) is empowering Latino students, teachers and administrators today to help solve the drop-out rate. Through a $3 million education grant to the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), State Farm will help NCLR in their goals to promote excellence in students, increase Latino graduation rates, and close the achievement gap nationwide. Approximately 2.9 million Latinos are enrolled in U.S. high schools -- representing 17% of all secondary public school students -- and are less likely than their non-Hispanic peers to complete high school.

XL insurance, the global insurance operations of XL Capital, has opened a new regional office in Boston, US.

Life insurance and pensions group Aegon has signed an agreement to acquire a 50% interest in Mongeral Seguros e Previdencia, a Brazilian life insurer.

Insurance stocks, led by Hartford Financial, Principal Financial and MetLife, fell Thursday after a lawmaker raised the question of whether a well-known insurer could be in financial trouble.The c

People with mental illness would get better health insurance coverage as part of a giant financial bailout the Senate passed Wednesday, but the legislation's fate remains uncertain.

In 1889 the Pennsylvania Legislature introduced a bill to prohibit insurance on children. The idea spread to New York, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and to Canada. For six long years legislative inquiries into Industrial insurance continued their challenge.

Aviva Life insurance has appointed TR Ramachandran as the CEO of its Indian operations and approached the insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India for necessary approvals.