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Rocky Armfield survives the halls of power in Los Angeles County with a cool demeanor and straight talk.

The great subprime lending meltdown of 2007 will make life in 2008 a little more difficult for excess professional liability carriers. But will lawsuits be serious enough to turn the market?

An IRS tax proposal threatens to quash onshore domiciles. The industry tries to overcome differences and fight it.

The Southern California wildfires are expected to be double the damage of the 2003 wildfires and to melt through the state insurance pool's $8 million self-insured property limit. But experts say they expect very little effect on pricing.

The wildfires that raged in Southern California in late October were more of a residential event, but businesses and their insurers could still be facing significant claims activity and even dispute.

The American workplace is getting fatter, but employers are the ones that are expected to suffer and there's no better time for companies to implement a wellness program.

The difficult road to recovery for New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina points to the importance of proper business continuity planning if companies are to continue.

The distribution gears of commercial insurance in Europe grind with inefficiency and "market distortion," according to European Union regulators.

Absorbing the impact of two big mergers, the resilience of AT&T's Teddy Award-winning workers' compensation and disability management programs is a tribute to the teamwork that spawned them.

Houston Independent School District claims manager Tom Dolan knew it was time to act when one employee had 17 claims in five years. How he dispelled such "frequent flyers" is what gained the district a 2007 Theodore Roosevelt Workers' Compensation and Disability Management Award in the nonprofit category.

Centralized management and a program that empowers employees is creating success--and earning Riverside County the Theodore Roosevelt Workers' Compensation and Disability Management Award in the nonprofit category.

A federal workers' compensation case management team has slashed future long-term liability at a U.S. Army installation from around $60 million to $27 million. This stat can only in part explain why Red River Depot won this year's Theodore Roosevelt Workers' Compensation and Disability Management Award in the federal category.

Utilization management is an increasingly important component of controlling pharmaceutical costs. No wonder workers' compensation PBMs are multiplying like rabbits.

How mortgage lenders masked their subprime exposure risks from investors through securitization and looser standards.

Employers need a variety of work outcome data to calculate the impact of health-related absences.