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Tom Gallagher, Florida's chief financial officer, announced that the pilot phase of the My Safe Florida Home program ended today and his goal of completing 12,000 inspections by the Nov. 30 end of the

In outlining an agenda for the panel, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., also said he will support an optional federal charter for life insurers, but is "skeptical" whether it would be appropriate for proper

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced today that his office has notified four major insurance companies they can no longer pay controversial contingent commissions to agents and brokers th

In an annual report from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, the department declared that solvency risk does not appear to be an issue among medical malpractice insurers and that adverse reser

Susan Nolan, executive director of the Troy, N.Y.-based National Conference of Insurance Legislators, said a formal request for bids on a study was sparked in part "because of recent attempts by the f