If you want to understand why cutting the deficit is so hard, you can’t do much better than to look at the Business Roundtable.

Insurance operators in Africa have been admonished to find lasting solutions to diverse challenges facing the sector so as to boost insurance penetration in the continent.

The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) has stepped up watch on people of questionable character who may want to take advantage of banks’ divestment from insurance subsidiaries to bring in laundered funds into the industry.

As the U.S. population ages and seniors choose to remain in their own home as they age, more than 100 new senior home care agencies have opened their doors in the San Antonio area in the last decade.

Small-business lending appears to be on the mend as recessionary pressures fade, but as some San Antonio business owners said, it is nowhere near healed.

ANGLO IRISH Bank and US insurer Liberty Mutual will be able to use cash and assets freed up by the lifting of the guarantees to Quinn Group lenders to help fund Quinn Insurance under their new ownership of the business.

The state’s Office of Free Market Health Care is seeking input from consumers and other stakeholders that would be used in designing an online marketplace for individuals and small employers to buy health insurance.

States are required to set up the marketplaces, or exchanges, under federal health care reform.

Liquidators for Queenstown-based Western Pacific Insurance have cancelled the policies held by some 7,000 New Zealanders, leaving more than 150 claims relating to the Canterbury earthquakes in September and March in limbo.

Senators involved in writing a key part of the landmark legislation that overhauled housing finance say they are dismayed that the Obama administration proposes carrying out their plan by pushing home buyers to come up with hefty sums of cash at the closing table.

THE ISSUE of the future ownership of Quinn Insurance (QI), which celebrated its first birthday in administration last month, appears close to reaching a conclusion.