Melissa Bean

• Defund FIO study

  By Ted Besesparis  |  March 1, 2011

  Last year when Congress created the Federal Insurance Office (FIO), it ordered a broad study of insurance regulation in the United States—but it assigned the task of conducting that study to the FIO that it had just created. This creates an ideological conflict of interest.

• AIG Insurance Units' Risk Misunderstood By Treasury: NAIC

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 3, 2010

  State regulators have told Congress the Treasury's assessment of how American International Group holding company problems could have impacted AIG's ability to pay insurance claims is wrong.