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Just as aging Baby Boomers are realizing they may need long-term care insurance, the marketplace is shrinking, the cost of premiums is soaring, and providers are altering the policies they offer.

A voluntary safety initiative announced Monday by the mining industry aims to bring the number of on-the-job fatalities to zero, an ambitious program laid out just days before the two-year anniversary of a West Virginia disaster that claimed the lives of 29 coal miners.

Swiss Re, the world's second-biggest reinsurer, said natural catastrophes cost the insurance industry $110 billion last year after record flooding and earthquake losses.

After the terrorist attacks Sept. 11, 2001, airline pilots gained more authority and independence: They sit behind locked cockpit doors, can carry guns and are starting to bypass regular airport security lines.

With the fate of President Obama's health care law hanging in the balance, a lawyer for the administration faced a barrage of skeptical questions on Tuesday from four of the Supreme Court's more conservative justices, suggesting that a 5-to-4 decision to strike down the law was a live possibility.

Fox $1 million "perfect bracket" contest for NCAA college hoops is insured by HCC Insurance Holdings Inc.

Paul Holehouse, a longtime risk consultant for the Fireman¿s Fund Insurance Company is the go-to insurer for the American entertainment industry.

Sen. Dick Durbin is setting up a Judiciary Committee hearing about bounties in professional football and other sports in the wake of news that New Orleans Saints players received extra cash for hits that hurt particular opponents. Meanwhile, Saints coach Sean Payton has been banned for one year.

Somali pirates freed a British hostage Wednesday, nearly seven months after she was taken captive in a raid at a Kenyan beach resort in which her husband was killed.

Three horse deaths led to the cancellation of the highly anticipated horseracing TV series.

Honda Motor Co.'s class-action settlement with hybrid owners over allegations the automaker overstated gas mileage led the company to pay $100 to $200 in cash to individual owners and give them a $1,000 credit toward the purchase of a new Honda. The company did not admit liability.

A new bill moving through the Tennessee House of Representatives would require the state to publish the names of each doctor who performs an abortion and detailed statistics about the woman having the procedure, which opponents worry will spur anti-abortion violence in the state.

The parents of two Virginia Tech students killed in a 2007 campus massacre worked for years to prove university officials were negligent for waiting to warn students of a gunman on campus, and a jury agreed with them.

The New York Mets' owners scored an early season victory Monday, stabilizing the club's financial future in a deal with a trustee for Bernard Madoff's fraud victims that requires them to pay millions less than they might have.