R. Steven Orr joined IWIF Workers’ Compensation Insurance as senior vice president of information systems, after serving for nine months as a consultant to the Towson, Md.-based workers’ compensation insurer.

A New York-based life settlement provider says its ability to obtained almost half of the $60 million in capital it hoped to raise shows the industry is ready for “significant growth.”

Life insurance companies, both primary and reinsurers, are expected to experience the effects of policies being sold to life settlement firms, a new analysis predicts.