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• Except For Surplus Lines, Dodd-Frank Barely Touches Insurance

  By Robert H. Myers Jr.  |  November 8, 2010

  In the process of reforming the financial markets, Congress was unable to generate a solution that is more than a patch for the holes in the existing flawed model.

• Financial Reform Bill Enters Home Stretch

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 31, 2010

  With an historic financial services regulatory reform bill about to enter the home stretch on Capitol Hill, insurance industry groups will keep lobbying to craft an acceptable compromise in reconciling the House and Senate versions.

• Senate Passes Sweeping Reform Bill

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 21, 2010

  The Senate late Thursday night passed historic legislation making the most sweeping changes to financial services regulation since the Depression by a vote of 59-39.

• Don't Assess Insurers For Failed Banks, Senate Urged

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 4, 2010

  Legislation to fund the unwinding of failing companies that threaten the nation's financial system should not put assessments on insurers, three trade groups have written the Senate leadership.

• I.I.I. Urges Congress: Don't Tax Insurers In Financial Reform Bill

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  April 21, 2010

  The Insurance Information Institute is warning that levying a federal tax on property and casualty insurers to pay for the bailout of failed financial institutions would "constitute a significant policy error."

• Financial Services Reform Bill Gives Insurers A Break

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 29, 2010

  Insurers, balking at having to help pre-fund a bailout authority for systemically risky companies, have secured a key change in financial services reform legislation that will reportedly limit the assessment to one major insurance carrier.

• Insurers Get A Break In Financial Services Bill

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 24, 2010

  Insurers have secured key changes in financial services reform legislation easing a proposed financial requirement for large firms and eliminating tighter regulation of financial product sales.

• Insurers Get A Break In Financial Services Bill

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 23, 2010

  Insurers have secured key changes in financial services reform legislation easing a proposed financial requirement for large firms and eliminating tighter regulation of financial product sales.