Procedural roadblocks thrown up by Republicans to stop action on health care legislation in the Senate are putting the National Flood Insurance Program in jeopardy.

A provision in both House and Senate health care legislation that would limit insurers' nationally marketed health care products to regulation by one state is coming under fire from liberal lawmakers from Maine and California.

Two insurance trade groups are telling the Senate leadership that the current draft of health care reform legislation ignores the interests and needs of the current employer-based insurance system.

Senate Democrats appear on the verge of dropping a scaled-backed health insurance "public plan" that would make people aged 55 to 64 who lack health coverage eligible for Medicare.

The inheritance tax, an issue for the heirs to small insurance agencies, will likely be allowed expire and then be reinstated retroactively an insurance trade group said.

Major insurance trade groups are asking the Senate Banking Committee not to require large financial institutions to prefund a systemic risk resolution fund as part of financial services reform legislation.

Senate Democrats appear to be coalescing around a compromise to a so-called "public plan" for health care protection reform legislation that has met divided insurance industry opinion.

Reinsurance and surplus lines purchases would be governed by the tax policies, licensing and other requirements of the buyer's home state under legislation approved for House floor action.