category: Insurance Headlines
 - Survey highlights regulatory risk concerns

category: Life Insurance
 - AIG may sell life insurance unit to MetLife
 - Corporate-travel insurance market continues to be competitive

category: Health Insurance
 - Calif. health reform effort faces uphill battle
 - NBGH supports individual health insurance mandate
 - Financial crisis to hit some captives
 - Industry groups seek delay in Medicare payer rules

category: Auto Insurance
 - Cash for Clunkers covers uninsured
 - Maine outlaws ‘distracted’ driving
 - Lawmakers ask insurers for information on Toyota cars

category: Homeowners
 - P/C insurers' profits dip in 1Q: Best
 - Louisiana, U.S. reach FEMA agreement
 - California fire losses may hit $800M
 - Active hurricane season predicted for 2009
 - Southern California overdue for major quake
 - Reinsurance rates increasing in some areas
 - P/C rates down, but declines slowing
 - Forecasters see average Atlantic storm season
 - Tough times ahead for P/C insurers
 - P/C rates decline 7% in April
 - NOAA sees near-normal Atlantic hurricane season
 - Florida restores surplus lines rate and form exemption
 - Property/casualty rate declines slowing
 - Property rates ride 'a slowly rising tide'
 - Property/casualty rates drop in June
 - U.S. P/C insurers' net income drops 87% in quarter
 - Property/casualty rate drop continues
 - Hurricane Bill gains strength on Atlantic track
 - Absent major catastrophe, outlook steady
 - Groups oppose property/casualty prudential supervision
 - Climate change could risk trillions in U.S. assets
 - Flood cover doubts raise concerns
 - Winter storm losses may top 2 Billion
 - Property catastrophe remains top risk, but others gain ground
 - Property/casualty rates fall in February
 - Insurers oppose debt guarantee of state catastrophe cover
 - Insurers, reinsurers strive to make better use of catastrophe models
 - Catastrophes, disasters cost insurers $26B in 2009

category: Financial Services
 - Insurance pool needed, CIAB tells Treasury
 - New structures revive market for cat bonds
 - Financial services bill includes insurer reforms
 - Financial institution D&O rates may fall in 2010
 - Insurers don't pose systemic risk
 - Captive owners using assets to back LOCs

category: International Insurance News
 - Delegates polled for top risks at IIS conference
 - Kiln to reduce Lloyd's capacity, set up U.S. arm
 - Aon exits underwriting in $2.75 billion deals
 - AIG actuary testifies deal with Gen Re was unusual
 - Ex-Gen Re exec questioned about AIG contract
 - Fed deal lets AIG borrow additional $37.8B
 - AIG units to participate in commercial paper program
 - AIG launches entity to buy problem debt
 - N.Y., France sign insurer investigation agreement
 - Aon Benfield predicts steady reinsurance prices
 - Group calls for crackdown on offshore reinsurers
 - California to probe insurers on Iran investments
 - Swiss Re predicts gradual growth for insurers in 2010
 - Asbestos, environmental losses lowest since 2000
 - Greenberg testifies on sham deal with Gen Re

category: National Insurance News
 - Health law expands consumer, provider protections
 - NCCI calls for workers comp rate cut in Florida
 - Aetna, N.Y. reach agreement on physician rankings
 - P/C rates soften despite chaos in financial sector
 - Racial attack victim not eligible for comp: Court
 - Florida approves comp rate decrease
 - Predictive Modeling to Play Increasingly Important Role in Property/casualty Industry and Other Businesses, CAS is Told
 - P/C expenses outpace premium growth: S&P
 - 2008 tough year for P/C insurers
 - Some see firmer rates in the coming year
 - P/C rates may begin to firm in ‘09
 - Increasing number of bankruptcies trouble workers comp self-insurers
 - Effects of N.Y. comp reform examined
 - P/C sector records nine-month underwriting loss
 - Higher insurance premiums will arrive next year
 - Students finding market for skills in risk, insurance
 - MarketScout sees end of soft market
 - Next hard market won't be typical
 - P/C industry calm amid financial storm: JIF panel
 - Many P/C execs pessimistic about 2009
 - Uncertainty of 2008 limits cat bonds
 - January P/C rates down 9%
 - P/C profits probably down for back-to-back years
 - Number working in insurance industry drops
 - Surplus lines reform bill to be reintroduced
 - Best upgrades edge out downgrades in 2008
 - Reinsurer premiums up in 2008
 - NAMIC defends narrow antitrust exception
 - Market crisis will harden P/C pricing
 - Commercial lines insurers hit hard in 2008
 - Insurance impact from tax haven crackdown unclear
 - Scaling back TRIA could be difficult
 - U.S. government should oversee insurance: Kanjorski
 - Economic conditions for commercial insurers improving
 - Surplus lines pricing, capacity, terms flat
 - Insurance rates could harden in 2nd half of 2009
 - Obama administration listens to insurer concerns
 - Federal insurance regulation needed, U.S. panel told
 - Nightclub's insurer has no criminal defense duty
 - New York rethinks broker commission disclosure rule
 - Scrutiny of risk management spending grows
 - Average commercial premiums fall in 2nd quarter
 - Interest in cat consortium grows
 - Insurers can pursue subrogation of WTC losses
 - Reinsurers' capital levels rise in first half of 2009
 - Reinsurers refuel after tough year
 - IRS clarifies risk distribution rule for reinsurers
 - Residual market insurers under financial stress
 - Catastrophe bond issuance expected to rise
 - Financial crisis expected to fuel reinsurers' M&A activity
 - Flat renewals expected for most insurance lines
 - NAIC approves plan to rework reinsurer collateral
 - Surplus lines results take hit in 2008
 - Mutual insurers resilient, gain market share
 - Soft market persists in third quarter
 - Insurers differ from reinsurers on rate reductions
 - Senate panel adds surplus lines to regulatory bill
 - Court sides with insurer in coverage exclusion case
 - P&C Insurers Performed Well
 - Competition keeps lid on rates
 - Jobs growth expected as insurers foresee higher revenues
 - P/C rating upgrades outnumber downgrades in '09
 - Energy firms' top concern is insurer stability
 - Insurers bear responsibility for market swings: Exec
 - Commercial rates flat in 4Q of 2009

category: Insurance Blogs
 - AIG chief sees bright future despite current turmoil