Tuesday, mortgage insurer MGIC Investment Corp. (MTG) said it would raise about $420 million in common stock offering and $325 million in debt offering. On the news, shares of the company are currently down over 9% in NYSE.[...]

Insurance companies are taking a harder look at advanced medical scans like CT scans, citing spiraling costs and safety concerns. And some doctors agree there's emerging evidence that these scans are being over-prescribed.[...]

Britain's most influential investor group, the Association of British Insurers, has launched an attack to curtail a new trend of "payment for failure" at big public companies.[...]

The Fed’s actions in the JPMorgan-Bear Stearns marriage may take some air out of the enormous bubble in credit insurance.[...]

First, it was mortgage lenders who began requiring bigger down payments from borrowers in South Florida, ostensibly making it harder to buy and slowing recovery of the housing sector. Now, mortgage insurers are delivering a new blow to a market that is already down.[...]

Pyramid Breweries has struck a multi-year sponsorship deal with the Seattle Mariners that will allow the Seattle brewery to pour more beer[...]