Attorneys general from 11 states and Washington, D.C., have filed court papers in the federal health reform law case, arguing that the individual mandate forcing all Americans to buy health insurance, starting in 2014, is constitutional.

A Northumberland, Pa.-based company with more than 230 independent insurance agency franchise partners in seven states, intends to add partners in Georgia in the second quarter.

The president of a Des Moines, Iowa, staffing company pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of wire fraud in connection with the defrauding of workers’ compensation insurers.

An insurance agent from Des Moines, Iowa, launched a 5,000-watt, Spanish-language radio station for non-English speaking Hispanics.

Alfred W. Gross, one of the longest serving insurance commissioners in the U.S., died this week, less than seven months after he gave up his post has Virginia’s insurance regulator.

A lawsuit heard before the Supreme Court recently, the “most significant case for the property-casualty insurance” this term, addressed greenhouse gas emissions and the use of public nuisance lawsuits to resolve climate change disputes.

Curt Pearsall, founder and principal of a Whitesboro, N.Y., insurance consulting firm, was elected president of the American Insurance Marketing & Sales (AIMS) Society, a professional organization dedicated to building insurance sales, marketing and technical expertise

United Fire & Casualty Co. completed its acquisition of Mercer Insurance Group, a New Jersey-based insurance company, for $191 million.

Insurance representatives from the U.S. and Europe met in Washington, D.C., for two days earlier this month, as part of the ongoing dialogue concerning challenges with international insurance regulation.

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.”