The recent judicial trend seems to be that the signature legislation of President Obama and congressional Democrats is that their effort to seize one-fifth of the U.S. economy from the private sector and empower the federal government to dictate that Americans purchase health insurance violates what our nation’s founders deemed, “The Supreme Law of the Land.”

More than a decade ago, Steven A. Rosenthal was on the front lines of the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez spill, calculating losses from nearly 30,000 individual insurance claims. Now, from his office in San Francisco, Calif., Rosenthal sees both similarities and differences in the Deepwater Horizon spill plaguing the Gulf of Mexico.

A federal jury in Washington state has issued a $19.3 million verdict against three individuals and their company for pocketing millions of dollars owed to financially troubled insurance company Cascade National.

A national small business group has joined 20 states in challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, highlighting measures under federal health reform that could “devastate” its members.

West Virginia Insurance Commissioner Jane Cline was elected as the next president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

Jane Cline

Cline, elected along with three others to the group’s executive …  Read →

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded the state of New Jersey a $4.2 million performance bonus for its efforts to decrease the number of uninsured children in the state.

Women would have free and widespread access to preventive screenings, such as mammograms and pap smears, under an amendment to the Senate health bill approved Dec. 3.

Agents and brokers can now access a new function of the National Insurance Producer Registry to report actions against them to jurisdictions across the United States.

The Schwab 529 College Savings Plans, sponsored by the state of Kansas, and South Carolina’s Future Scholar 529 College Savings Plan claimed top honors in a recent analysis of direct-sold …  Read →

Cherry Hill, N.J.-based American Collectors Insurance has added its 49th state, Alaska, to the list of states where it writes specialty insurance for collector vehicles and collectibles.

The company began in …  Read →