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By Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 15, 2012
Rep. Judy Biggert, R-Ill., plans to introduce a bill in the House that would extend the National Flood Insurance Program for one month, pushing the program’s expiration date back to June 30.
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 7, 2012
The U.S. government’s fiscal watchdog said today the federal government could ultimately make more than $15 billion from its investment in American International Group, an investment the government said was necessary to save AIG from insolvency.
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By Anya Khalamayzer, PropertyCasualty360.com |
April 25, 2012
The battle between the National Risk Retention Association and the Government Accountability Office rages on as the private group has publicly criticized a GAO report calling for clarification of a federal law regulating risk retention groups.
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By Laura Mazzuca Toops |
April 25, 2012
The medical loss ratio question is far from settled, as SCOTUS weighs the healthcare law’s constitutionality, and Congress debates two MLR reform bills.
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By Staff Writers |
April 13, 2012
ACE's Evan Greenberg on government regulation, the Fed's Ben Bernanke on AIG and the "shadow-banking" system, Willis' Joseph Plumeri with advice for risk managers, and more.
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
April 12, 2012
The Government Accountability Office said today in a new report that the government should consider capping crop-insurance-premium subsidies for individual farmers or reducing subsidies for all farmers, or both.
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
April 5, 2012
Based on a new Government Accountability Office study, the insurance industry and plaintiff’s lawyers are renewing their call for passage of legislation that they argue would make the Medicare Secondary Payment program work better.
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By Ted Besesparis |
February 27, 2012
When Congress is clear, bureaucrats shouldn’t second-guess it
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
February 21, 2012
Legislation that would provide subsidized premiums under the National Flood Insurance Program for farmers whose properties are at-risk due to aging and substandard levee structures is being criticized by experts at the Heartland Institute, a think tank.
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com, Caroline McDonald, PropertyCasualty360.com |
January 19, 2012
While the recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on risk-retention groups (RRGs) recommends that Congress pass legislation clarifying certain provisions of the Liability Risk Retention Act (LRRA), it doesn’t go far enough, according to one industry expert.
