Monthly Archives: January 2012

Property/casualty insurers are facing a difficult environment in 2012, according to a forecast from analysts at a Hartford insurance consulting firm. The difficult environment will include volatility in the economy, the underwriting cycle, and catastrophe management, combined with low investment yields, said the quarterly Property/Casualty Forecast & Analysis from Conning Research & Consulting. Conning said […]

Coverage for data-breach risk has become the key insurance coverage for the digtial age. The reason. of course, is that the digital storage  and transfer of data is a critical part of doing business today for a huge-and constantly growing- swath of industry sectors. Insurance companies and agencies, banks, asset managers, retailers, doctors offices and […]

Young U.S. residents could expect to live a tiny bit longer in 2010 than in 2009, but older U.S. residents probably had no such luck. Overall life expectancy increased to 78.7 years in 2010, from 78.6 years in 2009, and the overall age-adjusted death rate fell to 746.2 deaths per 100,000 people, from 749.6 deaths […]

U.S. health care spending increased 3.9% in 2010 following record slow growth of 3.8% in 2009; the two slowest rates of growth in the 51-year history of the National Health Expenditure Accounts, the official estimates of total health care spending in the United States issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Total […]