For only the second time in five-and-a-half years, average directors and officers liability insurance prices for all types of buyers may show an uptick for second-quarter 2009, a broker predicted.

House Democrats today unveiled a health bill that includes provisions calling for a "public option," a health insurance exchange, an employer mandate and appointment of a federal "health choices commissioner."

The National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) has approved a resolution declaring that any federal consumer protection unit that is created should not regulate insurance.