State lawmakers should do away with the agency that represents consumers before insurance regulators and clarify how and when the Texas Department of Insurance can use some of its enforcement powers, the Texas Sunset Commission said in a review of the two

The population of renters across the country is growing, edged up in part by a slumping housing market. Yet as graduates and others enter the work force and set up their first apartments, renters insurance probably isn't a burning issue.

Solvent schemes of arrangement have emerged in the last five or so years as a uniquely powerful procedure to achieve rapid and legally binding closure of insurance and reinsurance companies.

AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company and MONY Life Insurance Company, as subsidiaries of AXA Financial Inc., are welcomed as members of the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York .

OneBeacon Insurance Group Ltd., whose 177-year roots include paying claims on the sinking of the Titanic and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, is seeking a buyer for its auto and home division in a sale that may raise about $500 million, according to thr