Richard Bouhan

• NRRA: An Overview & Status Update on This Critical Legislation

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  October 10, 2011

  While the brave new world of uniform state regulation of the non-admitted insurance market finally dawned July 21, the details of its implementation are proving to be a bit devilish.

• Bouhan: Surplus-Lines Tax-Sharing Pacts Create Winners, Losers

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  September 9, 2011

  Regardless of which premium tax-sharing agreement is used to implement the federal surplus-lines reform law, it may not be around in the long run, says Richard Bouhan, executive director of the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices.

• NRRA Implementation Top-Of-Mind Issue As NAPSLO Meets

  By Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  September 9, 2011

  As the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO) prepares for its annual convention in San Diego Oct. 10-13, issues surrounding the implementation of the federal surplus-lines reform law will be very much on the minds of the excess and surplus-lines executives in attendance.

• Highlights Of The Agenda For The Convention

  September 9, 2011

  A Next Generation Panel Discussion, Oct. 11, 3:00 p.m.

• NFIP Action Threatened By Debt-Crisis Battle

  July 29, 2011

  Fair warning: Washington is consumed with the debt crisis.

• As Surplus-Lines Law Takes Effect, States Still Unprepared

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  July 21, 2011

  State insurance regulators and legislators have a long way to go to implement a federal law that goes into effect today and is meant to modernize surplus-lines regulation.

• Texas Enacts Surplus Lines Tax Law; No Mention of Compact

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  July 20, 2011

  Texas, the nation’s third largest state in terms of surplus lines premiums, has enacted legislation that in theory allows the state to keep all the premium taxes generated by the surplus lines industry.

• Mississippi Signs NIMA for Surplus Lines Law Implementation

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  June 17, 2011

  Mississippi joins Florida and Hawaii in signing the Nonadmitted Insurance Multistate Agreement to implement the Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2010—a surplus-lines-related component of the Dodd-Frank financial-services reform bill.

• SLIMPACT Supporters Criticize Florida’s Support For NIMA

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com, Joan E. Collier, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  June 16, 2011

  Florida’s choice to implement federal surplus lines legislation is coming under heavy fire from industry trade groups.

• Still No Consensus On Surplus-Lines Tax

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 20, 2011

  with less than two months to go before NRRA becomes the law of the land, clarity and uniformity in regulation of the non-admitted or surplus lines industry seems as distant as it was before the landmark reform and modernization legislation was enacted by Congress as part of the Dodd-Frank financial-services...

• Program Administrators To Gather At TMPAA Midyear

  By Staff Writer  |  April 15, 2011

  Mark your calendars! NU provides highlights of some upcoming specialty market insurance events, including the Target Market Program Administrators Midyear Meeting in Boston and NAPSLO’s upcoming webinar on NRRA implications.

• Large States’ Avoidance Of SLIMPACT May Doom Compact

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  April 11, 2011

  In the wake of New York’s decision not to join a nationwide compact on sharing of surplus-lines taxes, industry officials believe such compacts may be doomed.

• Large States’ Avoidance Of SLIMPACT May Doom Compact

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  April 4, 2011

  In the wake of New York’s decision not to join a nationwide compact on sharing of surplus-lines taxes, industry officials believe such compacts may be doomed.

• States Begin To Adopt SLIMPACT For Surplus Lines Law Implementation

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 22, 2011

  Kentucky, New Mexico and Ohio have become the first states to enact comprehensive legislation implementing the surplus lines and reinsurance reform and modernization law.

• States Have Long Way To Go To Implement Surplus Lines Law

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 8, 2011

  State legislators and regulators “have a ways to go” to ensure that the surplus lines reform law goes into effect as mandated by Congress in July, the head of the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices said.

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  Executive Insights From NAPSLO Mid-Year Leadership Forum — Slideshow

  By Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 3, 2011

  The National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices recently held their annual Mid-Year Leadership Forum, where top industry executives offered key insights on the surplus lines industry.