Another temporary extension of the National Flood Insurance Program is imminent, but it is unclear when the Senate will take the next step in passing a bill that will provide long-term certainty to the program.

It is unnecessary for property and casualty insurance companies to be overseen by the Financial Stability Oversight Council, and Congress should move to take away that authority, a P&C trade group contends.

The Supreme Court today agreed to decide whether requiring Americans to buy health insurance is constitutional.

A House subcommittee will hold a hearing Wednesday and the main subject will be three pieces of legislation sought by state regulators seeking to severely roll back federal authority to oversee insurance companies gained in the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial services reform law.

The Treasury Department has announced the 15 members of the Federal Advisory Committee on Insurance (FACI), which is charged with advising the newly created Federal Insurance Officebut state legislators are upset they arent being represented.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has decided to ramp up its oversight of title insurers.

American International Group, MetLife and Prudential are the three most likely U.S. insurers to be deemed as systemically important enough to be subject to federal as well as state regulation, says Moodys Investors Service in a report.

A manual to be used to implement the proposed Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA) requirement for property and casualty insurance holding companies has been sent up the ranks at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners meeting.