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• Eight Is Enough: Top Legislative Priorities Industry Should Focus On For Fall

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  September 1, 2011

  Here are the top eight legislative priorities that property and casualty insurance executives, and their lobbyists, should focus on if they hope to get anything enacted on Capital Hill this year—or for the entire 112th Congress that ends next year.

• Tax Issues Complicate Wind-Downs Of Insolvent Insurance Cos.

  By Michael Callan, Susan Leonard, Mark Lynch, Patricia Gergen  |  July 14, 2011

  Procedures to unwind troubled insurance companies can be complicated by unforeseen tax issues, blindsiding stakeholders—regulators, creditors, owners of troubled companies, and even healthy ones included in consolidated returns—at a time when none of these parties is focusing on the Internal Revenue Service.

• Foreign, Domestic Groups Continue Neal Bill Impact Dispute

  By Staff Writer  |  June 29, 2010

  Foreign reinsurers opposing a proposed offshore insurer tax increase have criticized a YouTube video released by the measure's proponents, calling it "inaccurate and misleading."

• Obama Budget Would End Offshore Insurers' Tax Edge

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 2, 2010

  President Obama has proposed a budget for 2011 that reopens the volatile issue of taxing offshore insurers, especially those based in Bermuda.

• Obama Budget Would End Offshore Insurers' Tax Edge

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 1, 2010

  President Obama has proposed a budget for 2011 that reopens the volatile issue of taxing offshore insurers, especially those based in Bermuda.

• Death Of Estate Tax Has Agents Worried

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  January 11, 2010

  Lapse of the estate tax as of Jan. 1 has many insurance agencies concerned with inheritance issues, according to one major producer association.