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Property and casualty insurance rates continued to moderate through September with composite rates moving from minus 5 percent in August to minus 4 percent last month, according to MarketScout.

President Obama has been appearing everywhere to push his health care reform agenda, but NU Editor Sam Friedman has some outside-the-box suggestions to get his message out in his blog today at www.NUSamSoapBox.com.

Traffic can be hard to stand, but two suspects threw fraud in the mix, and now it's a real lock-up.

Itasca, Ill.-based insurance firm Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. said it has acquired St. Paul, Minn.-based consulting firm Fox Lawson & Associates, LLC. Terms of the deal were not released.

The property and casualty insurance industry in general supports creating a Federal Office of Insurance, according to testimony yesterday before Congress, but some trade groups are at odds on its scope.

National Underwriter is about to release results of a new survey of top-rated commercial lines writers--valuable information for insurance buyers with renewals in the works. Find out how to get a sneak preview at www.NoRiskZone.com .