More than 76,000 damage claims from Hurricane Ike have been filed with the Texas-backed windstorm insurance association, which expects to pay billions of dollars to...

It can be a fine line between investing and gambling. But in Las Vegas, you know the odds. On Wall Street, that’s not always the case.

The agency that protects U.S. bank deposits is asking Congress for temporary authority to boost deposit insurance limits as the government works to contain the...

Health insurance premiums rose a modest 5 percent this year for coverage that’s getting skimpier, researchers say.

A Kansas company that is part of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has stopped selling private bank deposit insurance above the amount guaranteed by the...

Barry Schoch’s cell phone comes to life with “When the Saints Go Marching In” _ a reminder of the nine months he spent assessing damage from Hurricane...

Reversing itself, the Bush administration said Thursday that states for now won’t be penalized for failing to install restrictions making it harder for...

Nobody likes being visited by bad luck not even the insurance companies who have to dole out rather reluctantly those big amounts of money. The Assurall advert -...

Florida will pay $224 million to Berkshire Hathaway Inc. for a guarantee that the state can borrow up to $4 billion if necessary to help cover future losses by its...

A high-tech monitoring device makes it possible to reduce insurance premiums for drivers who avoid jackrabbit starts and slam-on-the-brakes stops, an insurance company...

Two of California’s biggest health insurers have agreed to collectively pay $13 million and reinstate more than 2,000 insurance policies to settle claims with the...

Two senior citizens - one with ties to Massachusetts - were sentenced to life in prison without parole yesterday for murdering two indigent men to collect insurance...

Mary Wusterbarth thought her toddler was struggling with an ear infection when she seemed sluggish. Instead, a virus had attacked the little girl’s heart,...

A Delhi based company is offering the said product in association with New India Assurance Company.

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. is lobbying Congress for permission to expand its homeowner policies to include flood coverage. The vast majority of flood insurance...

The Southwest has the lowest health insurance coverage in the country, with 30 percent of non-elderly adults and 18 percent of children uninsured, according to a new...

One of the nation’s largest insurance companies is lobbying Congress for permission to sell policies that cover damage from both wind and flood water, a plan...

Juli Parks didn’t worry when water began creeping up the levee that shields this town of about 750 from the Mississippi River _ not even when volunteers began...

The Florida Supreme Court declined Wednesday to grant Allstate Corp. an injunction to force Florida insurance regulators to let the company write new car insurance and...

When the Commonwealth of Massachusetts issued Michael Fiola a Dell Latitude in November 2006, it set off a chain of events that would cost him his job, his friends and...