category: Life Insurance
 - Allianz 1st-Quarter Profit Buoyed by Life Insurance, Dresdner
 - AWD Profit Falls on Life Insurance Sales, Marketing (Update1)
 - AWD Profit Falls on Marketing Costs, Life Insurance (Update2)
 - Insurance Stocks in U.S. Set to Rally One Year After Katrina
 - AIG Bets Road to Asia Runs Through Manchester United's Pitch
 - Ritchie, Facing Losses, Plans Bankruptcy for Insurance Holdings

category: Health Insurance
 - MBF Approached by Rival, Buyout Firms Ahead of Sale
 - Bush Urges Tax Breaks to Help Americans Buy Health Insurance
 - More Adult Americans Lack Health Insurance, U.S. Report Says

category: Auto Insurance
 - Allstate Profit Falls 77% to $348 Million on Storms
 - Progressive Gains as Record Gasoline Curbs Driving

category: Homeowners
 - Allstate, AIG, Insurers May Say Profits Boomed Post-Katrina
 - Lloyd's, Excess Writers Bear Fire Brunt, Goldman Says
 -  Jet Streams Move Poleward Widening Hurricane Belt
 - Global Warming May Cut Atlantic Hurricane Activity This Century
 - U.S. Hurricane Outlook Calls for as Many as 9 Storms
 - Tropical Storm Forms East of Philippines, May Turn Into Typhoon

category: Financial Services
 - U.S. Economy: Growth May Slow From 5.3% Annual Rate (Update2)
 - U.S. Stocks Drop After Fed Official Says Rates May Move Higher
 - Dollar Advances Against Euro Before Tomorrow's Bernanke Remarks
 - Australian Consumer Prices Post First Drop in 8 Years (Update5)
 - Oil Falls From Four-Week High on Signs Stockpiles Sufficient
 - U.S. Stocks Fall on Banking Concern; JPMorgan, Goldman Retreat

category: International Insurance News
 - Aviva's Life-Insurance Sales Rise 20%; Growth to Slow (Update1)
 - Canadian Stocks May Rise; Tax Cuts, Gold Price May Lift S&P/TSX
 - AIG Shares Fall After Overseas Life Insurance Misses Estimates
 - Sanlam Ends Talks to Buy GE's Life Unit in Britain (Update2)
 - Swiss Re Completes $7.4 Billion GE Insurance Purchase (Update2)
 - Colombian Stock Losses, Worst in World, Erase Investor Savings
 - Credit Suisse to Sell Winterthur to Axa for $9.9 Bln (Update1)
 - European Stocks Decline on N. Korea Missile Test; BHP Drops
 - Asian Health-Care, Utility Stocks May Lose Market Leadership
 - Friends Provident Posts Net Loss on Lower Investment Returns
 - U.S. to Resume Direct Financial Aid to Palestinians
 - Australian Banking Stocks Rise, Led by National; Santos Drops
 - Australian Stocks Rally; BHP Billiton Climbs, Macquarie Slides
 - SocGen Net Rises 33% on Consumer Banking, Derivatives
 - German Banking Shares Decline; ThyssenKrupp Advances on Upgrade
 - Metropolitan, AIG May Join to Sell Property Insurance
 - Former Allstate Chief Picked by Government to Run AIG
 - Fed Takes Control of AIG With $85 Billion Bailout

category: National Insurance News
 - European Stocks Advance, Led by GlaxoSmithKline, Nestle, E.ON
 - Novartis Seeks to Block Approval on Generic Zocor (Update3)
 - U.K. Stocks Including BP, AB Ports Advance; Bank Shares Decline
 - U.S. Stocks Fall as Oil Prices, Mideast Turmoil Hurt Confidence
 - Oil-Rig Insurers Brace for Test as Tropical Storm Bears Down

category: Mergers and Acquisitions
 - Lehman Net Rises 47% on Stock Trading, Takeover Fees (Update5)
 - Rite Aid May Acquire Some Eckerd Stores, Analyst Says (Update3)

category: Banking Services
 - Stagflation Lite, Central Banking Nightmare, May Await Bernanke
 - Forgeard's EADS Future Be Determined at Board Meeting (Update1)
 - Bank of America Promotes Hogan to Run Small-Business Banking
 - Dollar Falls, Heading for Biggest Quarterly Decline Since 2004
 - Services in U.S. Grow at Slowest Pace in Three Years (Update2)
 - Democrats Win U.S. House Passage of Cut in Student-Loan Rates
 - Citigroup to Buy Internet Bank Egg for $1.1 Billion (Update4)
 - Australia's Central Bank Keeps Rate at Six-Year High
 - Euro May Rise on Speculation Trichet to Signal Rate Increases
 - U.S. Stocks Retreat on Subprime Concern; Banking Shares Fall