Coming to the Rescue: States get ready to modernize surplus lines regulation

Bernd (Bernie) G. Heinze, executive director of the American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA), recalls a perfect example of the regulatory difficulties the surplus lines industry faces. A colleague at a Congressional hearing he attended produced a stack of paper one and a half feet thick, all of it necessary to place one ...

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