As property-casualty rates rise, customer satisfaction with insurers slips to a 5-year low.

Insurance-industry officials this weekend voiced strong support for the Obama administrations request to raise the National Flood Insurance Programs borrowing authority by 50 percent.

More fidelity/crime insurance accounts are seeing rate increases as 2012 progresses, and overall, this segment of the market is described by insurance-broker Marsh as relatively stable in terms of both rate and available capacity.

The borrowing authority for the National Flood Insurance Program would be increased 50 percent, to $30.4 billion, as part of a Superstorm Sandy supplemental budget request submitted to Congress by the Obama administration late Friday.