Legislation was introduced in the House last night that would expand the authority of risk retention groups to provide commercial property insurance to their members.
One of the key justifications for the legislation is to help coastal communities increase capacity to insure businesses for catastrophe coverage, which has been reduced in the wake of 2005 hurricanes, according to advocates of the bill.
Risk retention groups are currently limited to providing liability coverage.
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