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The Self-Insurance Institute of America Inc. said provisions in health care delivery system reform legislation creating a new health insurance marketplace would be "harmful" to the employment-based health care system.

DMA Claims (David Morse & Associates), a Los Angeles-based claims administration and adjusting company announced it has opened a new office in Atlanta.

The health reform bill unveiled by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., will likely be more of a threat to the Democratic Party than to insurers and agents, says NU Editor In Chief Sam Friedman in his blog today at www.NUSamSoapBox.com.

The Senate Finance Committee may add provisions capping the cost of medical malpractice awards to health care reform legislation when it acts on the measure next week.

Pursuing directors and officers claims against investment advisors in connection with the Madoff pyramid scheme could be difficult as multiple Securities and Exchange Commission investigations failed to uncover it, an attorney advised today.

Insurer W. R. Berkley Corp., Greenwich, Conn., said it has named Sandra C. Nelson president of its Monitor Liability Managers, LLC commercial unit.