Still, the mere threat of a jackpot award makes defendants (or their insurers) eager to settle.
John Garamendi, the California insurance commissioner, puts a stamp of approval on life insurers.
Insurers want to see young drivers become safe drivers which in turn will result in more affordable premiums.
The Association of British Insurers says the damage is likely to cost insurers "tens of millions of pounds".
According to Edwards, many disputes could be nipped in the bud if insurers communicated more openly with enrollees.
Ross has been coy about whether he will step in and invest in Ambac or other bond insurers.
If too many insurers opted out, Garamendi would have to seek a new line of work.
It encourages doctors, clinics, hospitals and insurers to join forces and beef up prevention-oriented services.
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Insurers and banks are hunting for how they'll do business in this brave new world.
Insurers have started encouraging consumers to use devices to help boost fitness and cut health-care costs.
The insurers' stock performance suffers because they also write policies for those much-maligned CMOs and CDOs.
Insurers use credit scores to set premium rates, and employers use them when making hiring decisions.
We found that insurers surveyed are strongly committed to improving their capabilities in risk analytics.
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Insurers face multiple regulatory initiatives, including the Solvency II directives aimed primarily at European insurers.
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The beneficiaries of Resona's bail-out are its shareholders, which include several big, troubled life insurers.
The story is likely to be more grim for Japanese insurers, the Insurance Industry Institute figures.
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Sometimes bureaucrats decide: bureaucrats who work for health insurers, or those who work for the government.
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The Shanghai Composite closed down 1.1% at 2217.01 with insurers leading the market's decline.
Insurers increasingly are requiring home tests as a first step before paying for an in-lab test.
For decades, insurers have invested heavily in their abilities to assess individual risk and price accordingly.
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Every one of the hundreds of U.S. health insurers uses a different payment methodology.
The bond insurers cover only the most senior tranche, which is the safest one.
It said that changes in the law and competition among insurers had pushed down prices.
This is a completely fictitious list price of which they negotiate with private insurers.
Insurers could also sell plans that excluded any costs associated with a particular condition.
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He speculates that patients and their insurers will balk at paying the bill for any quarantines.
And it has pushed regulators to probe alleged bad-faith practices at Phoenix and other insurers.
Less than a decade ago, Phoenix was one of the U.S.'s top-10 life insurers.
But a lack of legal clarity leaves device-makers, doctors, patients and insurers in the dark.
Some of the biggest health insurers are introducing incentives of one kind or another.
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