Protesters who say insurance company lobbyists are working to undermine state efforts to implement the federal health care reform law interrupted the summer meeting here of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

At NCCI's Annual Issues Symposium this past May, we had the unhappy duty to tell some 700 industry executives and managers that, in our view, the workers' compensation market was in a precarious position.

Brown & Brown Inc. said its subsidiary, Brown & Brown of South Carolina Inc. has acquired Charleston, S.C.-based insurance broker Commonwealth Insurance Group, LLC.