Regulation/Legislation

Now that the Republicans have won a crucial 41st vote in the U.S. Senate, will any health care reform bill pass Congress this year? That's the query posed to readers on NU's Web site at www.property-casualty.com.

The Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology, Windstorm Mitigation Committee has issued a draft report of its recommendations for fixing the wind mitigation credit program.

Two members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee support a sweeping Government Accountability Office study of the Federal Reserve Board's role in AIG's decision to make whole its bank trading partners.

A health care analyst and lawyer said today there is growing bipartisan support for repealing the McCarran-Ferguson Act's antitrust exemption for health insurers as a means of helping control health care costs.

Proposed cuts for the U.S. Agriculture Department's subsidy to the crop insurance program are excessive and will likely lead to more consolidation in a shrinking private crop insurance industry, an insurers' representative told the agency.

Nevada's Insurance Commissioner Scott Kipper said he has approved an average decrease of 7.6 percent for workers' compensation insurance rates.