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Through television, radio, newspapers and websites, the American people are again aware of the health care issue that divides our country.

The current focus of regulatory scrutiny may be a leading indicator of which industry sectors will be targeted for future securities lawsuits, a former plaintiffs' lawyer said recently.

In an important ruling this summer, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decided that an online marketing firm was entitled to defense cost coverage under two different types of liability policies for the same spyware download incident.

It certainly has been a year for getting bigger.

Net written premiums for The Hanover Insurance Group were up 17 percent during the 2010 third quarter compared with the prior year period due to its implementation of a deal announced late last year with OneBeacon Insurance Group.

The Target Markets Program Administrators Association is soliciting program administrators for its Target Markets Insurance Company.

After two years of planning, the Target Market Program Administrators Association's virtual "Target University" will start offering its online coursework beginning in second-quarter 2011, with eight courses currently in the final testing stage.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners will likely adopt a minimal plan to collect surplus lines insurance taxes without tackling the bigger issue of uniform regulation between the states after an association's task force vote last week.