Healthcare reform legislation viewed as more positive to insurance agents than earlier versions, cleared a critical hurdle in the Senate early this morning, setting the stage for Senate passage as early as Christmas Eve.

House passage of financial services reform legislation is drawing a mixed response from the property and casualty insurance industry.

The Senate overcame a procedural roadblock early today that sets the stage for passage on Saturday of legislation containing a provision reauthorizing the National Flood Insurance Program until Feb. 28.

There will be no language repealing the antitrust exemption afforded health and medical malpractice insurers in the Senate health care legislation, an aide to its chief Senate sponsor confirmed today.

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.