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Speaking for the Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers, an insurance broker says certain provisions of the healthcare-reform law are raising healthcare costs, creating uncertainty among employers, and costing agents and brokers industry jobs

Here are the top eight legislative priorities that property and casualty insurance executives, and their lobbyists, should focus on if they hope to get anything enacted on Capital Hill this yearor for the entire 112th Congress that ends next year.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has decided an indirect, behind-the-scenes approach to reducing the strain on health-insurance agents through the medical-loss ratio (MLR) provision will be most effective.

Whether the insurance industry will have certainty about the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is now in the hands of the U.S. Senate.

Recent laws have set into motion initiatives that will benefit and simplify the business of health care, and we should be prepared to embrace and accept these as inevitable in P&C.

Led by Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb), the Senate passed legislation repealing the much-criticized 1099 reporting provision in the healthcare-reform law and sent the bill to President Obama for his signature.

Opponents of the healthcare-reform law are expending huge amounts of rhetorical energy bad-mouthing the legislation, and various means of repealing it are pushing forward—even as the rolling-out of the bill continues apace.

In the year since the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), as uncertainty has mounted over how the health insurance reform law will work and whether it eventually will even be the law of the land, producers are concluding they can only keep up, team up...