The soft commercial insurance market may be hardening, new data suggests.

Commercial insurance prices declined 3% in the fourth quarter of last year, the smallest reduction in the past two years, …  Read →

Fraud investigations performed by IWIF Workers’ Compensation Insurance, the state’s largest workers’ compensation insurer, led to 28 suspects being prosecuted and the recovery of $3.3 million last year, it reported.

The …  Read →

The recession is trimming how much people can put toward retirement and forcing more people to delay the start of their post-work life, a new survey found.

The recession has required …  Read →

Agents’ satisfaction with personal property-casualty insurance companies falls greatly when they are not notified quickly of a customer-filed claim.

When agents are notified on the same day that a claim is …  Read →

The 2009 Long-Term Care Insurance Sourcebook, a compendium of the most current relevant research and data regarding long-term care and insurance products, has been published by the American Association of …  Read →

Employee-sponsored long-term care insurance buyers tend to be younger, select longer coverage and make claims on their policies sooner at younger ages than those who buy individual coverage.

These findings are …  Read →

A new report indicates that the rate of working-age adults in New York who have health coverage from their employer is decreasing while those receiving government assistance for coverage or …  Read →

Twice as many people have enrolled in consumer-directed health plan (CDHP) in the last two years, as more companies offer the option.

More importantly, health cost increases for companies with high …  Read →

Insurance agents and brokers appear to welcome any form of communication from the insurance companies they represent, as long as it isn’t a phone call, a new study suggests.

The survey …  Read →

Application activity for individually underwritten life insurance rose 1% in February compared to the same month last year, according to the MIB Life Index.

Activity for people age 60 and older …  Read →