Brokers will likely benefit from the uncertainty surrounding U.S. health-care reforms as companies seek their counsel over the new insurance requirements, according to Moody's Investors Service.

In a new report on the state of global insurance brokers, Moody's says that with U.S. health-care insurance in flux, the Employee Benefit products and services insurance brokers provide will increase in demand as health care is expected to remain employer-based.

The report's assertions back up comments in May by Arthur J. Gallagher Chairman, President and CEO J. Patrick Gallagher, who said that as bad as he believes the new health-care law is, it is providing opportunities for his firm.

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