Moody's Investors Service, which had said last week it would not attend a hearing by insurance regulators concerning rating service failings, has changed its mind.

U.S. Rep. David Scott, D-Georgia, an advocate of multistate licensing for producers, was given the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies' Federal Legislator of the Year Award.

A compromise bill calling for nonprofit cooperatives rather than a government plan as an alternative health insurance source was unveiled in the U.S. Senate last week.

The Direct Marketing Association's Insurance and Financial Services Council announced two awards for a Marsh brokerage subsidiary.