Conservative House Republicans intend to hold legislation reauthorizing a federal backstop for terrorism risk insurance hostage unless they get the slimmed-down version of the bill they support, they indicated Thursday.

Legislation allowing creation of NARAB passed the Senate yesterday. Two agent and broker groups were supportive, but expressed some concern about the legislation's sunset provision.

Hackers are increasingly targeting small businesses, as those more likely to have weak online security, less likely use cloud services without encryption technology and lack full-time IT support.