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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
January 26, 2012
A new report by a federal-watchdog agency questions whether the U.S. government will be able to recover over the short term—if ever—the investment it has made in American International Group.
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
January 26, 2012
Efforts are underway to jump-start Senate action on a long-term National Flood Insurance Program extension.
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
December 19, 2011
The National Flood Insurance Program is operating on a temporary reauthorization that expires Friday as Washington continues to play winner-take-all politics.
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
September 16, 2011
The healthcare industry is telling the congressional “super committee” that changes in the Medicare program to reduce costs should include medical liability reform.
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
July 21, 2011
A medical-liability insurance trade group is praising the decision of the “gang of six” deficit-reduction panel to include a mandate in its plan for Congress to enact medical-malpractice reform.
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By Ted Besesparis |
June 1, 2011
Once again, we face a looming expiration of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), with the program’s authorization set to expire on September 30 of this year. NFIP has received temporary reauthorizations eight times since 2008 and has gone into technical lapse on several occasions.
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
April 22, 2011
The House Financial Services Committee plans to mark up legislation reauthorizing and reforming the National Flood Program May 12, according to industry officials.
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
February 7, 2011
Legislation setting federal limits on medical liability claims, modeled after California’s 30-year-old medical liability law, was introduced in the House late last Monday. It imposes a $250,000 cap on…
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
January 24, 2011
An advocate for medical liability reform contended at a congressional hearing Thursday that there is “no question” that medical lawsuit abuse is “undermining both our health care system and the doctor-patient relationship.”
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
December 1, 2010
The Congressional Budget Office today released a report slashing its estimate of the government's cost of bailing out American International Group to $14 billion--a steep drop from its March estimate of $36 billion.
