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  January 2011 Sees Busy First Week For P&C Brokerage Acquisitions

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  January 10, 2011

  An executive with Reagan Consulting believes the current rate of merger and acquisition activity over the past five weeks will not be sustained throughout 2011.

• Acquisition Spree Continues; Marsh Acquires RJF Agencies

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  January 6, 2011

  The 2011 merger and acquisition spree continued with the recent announcements of six agencies acquired by four major insurance brokerage firms, with Marsh & McLennan Agencies scoring the largest of the lot.

• Broker Consolidation: Is Bigger Better?

  By Susan R. A. Honeyman  |  November 8, 2010

  It certainly has been a year for getting bigger.

• Arthur J. Gallagher 2Q Net Income Flat

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  July 29, 2010

  With its chief executive calling the current business climate the most difficult since the Great Depression, Arthur J. Gallagher (AJG) reported flat net income for the 2010 second quarter and another quarter of organic growth decline.

• Agents Scramble To Begin Transition To New World Of Health Insurance Sales

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  April 12, 2010

  Now that health reform legislation is a fact, all sectors of the insurance industry are scrambling to figure out how their end of the business will be affected.

• Obama Signs Final Health Care Bill

  By Allison Bell  |  March 30, 2010

  President Obama has completed the first stage of his health reform initiative by signing H.R. 4872, the companion legislation to the bill that created the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

• Insurers Decry Health Bill For Lack Of Cost Restrictions

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 22, 2010

  Reacting to the health care legislation passed by the House, insurance and employer groups voiced deep concerns over what they see as a lack of provisions designed to reduce costs.

• Agents OK Overall, But Provide Little Joy

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 1, 2010

  A survey of U.S. consumer experience with a variety of professions finds they rate their interactions with independent insurance agents as less than enjoyable.

• Agents Provide Little Client Joy, Customer Survey Finds

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 24, 2010

  A survey of U.S. consumers' experience with a variety of professions finds they rate their interactions with independent insurance agents as less than enjoyable.

• Obama Health Care Reform Bill Calls For Insurer Rate Regulation

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 22, 2010

  Authority to regulate health insurers at the federal level--including the power to roll back rate increases--will be included in a proposal President Obama will unveil today in a new health care reform bill.