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Healthcare reform, taxes and insurance regulations topped the list of issues during the first six months of the fiscal year for the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America, the association's chairman said here today.

Congress' inability to renew the National Flood Insurance Program has potentially dire consequences, Federal flood agency management officials warned.

Florida Insurance Consumer Advocate Sean Shaw today delivered a report to legislative leadership detailing the recommendations he collected from two property insurance roundtables.

"Given Florida's hurricane problem, I can almost understand why our homeowners' insurance costs so much. But what's the deal with our auto insurance rates?"

World Insurance Forum is listing dealing with global climate change, insurance regulation, and economic and political instability as topics for its next meeting to be held in Bermuda.

Insurers keep shooting themselves in the foot, with the latest example how they handed President Obama fresh ammunition on health insurance reform by sending individual rates soaring, says NU Editor Sam Friedman on his blog at www.NUSamSoapBox.com.

The insurance market for social service facilities on both ends of the age spectrum is experiencing the same soft market conditions already dominating most lines of commercial coverage.

The tsunami set off by the election of a Republican senator from Massachusetts to take Ted Kennedy's place is likely to generate far stronger federal oversight of the insurance industry than would have otherwise been the case.