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The person who will be sitting in the governor's chair this coming January will face a myriad of challenges, not the least of which is Florida's troubled property insurance market and other insurance-related issues.

The Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act is of limited benefit to only a few Florida surplus lines agents and of no benefit at all to most.

Despite years of experience in the field and more than four million participants, the growth of micro-insurance programs face hurdles for expansion and providing the world's poor with insurance, according to an Allianz executive.

Congress will see a "major push" on optional federal charter (OFC) legislation in the next session.

A regulator said insurance commissioners are looking to state legislators to provide authority to obtain information about a holding company's non-insurance entities.

Looking to avoid a repeat of the problems that nearly took down American International Group, a regulator said insurance commissioners are looking to state legislators to