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Since the 1970 enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, workplace injuries are sharply down, but compliance remains spotty and easily-preventable deaths continue, according to a Workers Compensation Research Institute report.

Two Democratic senators Tuesday introduced legislation in the current lame-duck session that would delay for five years a mandate that homeowners included in new flood zones buy "market-based" insurance policies.

Group medical benefits renewal rates continued to increase in the U.S. market between June and October, but brokers reported that clients are not planning to cut coverage altogether, according to a survey of insurance brokers.

A Penn. couple is in a real rut after they were both arrested and charged with staging an accident to collect more than $15,000 in insurance payments.

The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers has written to members of the House of Representatives asking that all of the Bush tax cuts be extended to eliminate uncertainty for agents and brokers.

Itasca, Ill.--based insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. said it has acquired Premier Risk Services, headquartered in Itasca. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.