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Obama Administration Steps Up Financial Reform Drive

The Obama administration stepped up its push for tougher bank and financial firm rules Thursday, scheduling a briefing for lobbyists, with a focus on insurance oversight, and sending a top regulator to a Senate hearing to discuss plans for regulating …

Legislators Introduce National Insurance Consumer Protection Act

Two congressional leaders introduced legislation today that would create a federal regulator for insurance as an alternative to the current state-based regulatory structure currently in plan. Rep. Melissa Bean, D-Ill., and Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., introduced their bipartisan insurance regulation …

Insurers Find Geithner Regulatory Plan Unclear on Federal Role

The nation’s insurance industry found some things to like and not to like in Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s proposed restructuring of financial services regulation. While Secretary Geithner said that any federal regulatory authority should not replace state regulation of insurance, …

Racicot Steps Down; Pusey Takes Helm as Insurer Group’s CEO

Gov. Marc Racicot will leave his position as the president and CEO of the American Insurance Association (AIA), effective Feb. 1, 2009. Racicot served more than three years as the leader of the the AIA, a property/casualty insurer trade association. …

Terror Insurance Act Moves Forward in House with Lowered Event Triggers

The federal Terrorism Risk Insurance Revision and Extension Act moved out of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises this week and on to the full House Financial Services Committee. The measure (H.R. 2761) …

Congress gets serious about surplus lines insurance reform

Insurance regulatory reform efforts on Capitol Hill took a giant leap forward with the recent House passage of HR 1065, the Non-Admitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2007. Sponsored by Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Kan., and Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Florida, HR …

Congress gets serious about surplus lines insurance reform

Legislation passes House, heads for the Senate; but not all in the industry think it’s the answer as now written Insurance regulatory reform efforts on Capitol Hill took a giant leap forward with the recent House passage of HR 1065, …

House Passes Uniform Surplus Lines Insurance Reform

The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1065, the Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2007, legislation that if enacted, will help increase the efficiency of the existing state-based insurance regulatory system, supporters say. H.R. 1065 is virtually the same …

Despite AIA Optimism USTR Change Raises Doubts on Doha Round

The American Insurance Association has issued a bulletin commending outgoing United States Trade Representative (USTR) Rob Portman for his leadership on trade negotiations. The AIA also welcomed his successor, Deputy USTR Susan Schwab, President Bush’s nominee to replace Portman, and …

Enhanced IJ Broadcasting enlivens insurance news

Insurance Journal has launched IJ Broadcasting, an enhanced section on its Web site for multimedia content that will include video and audio interviews, current news and features, educational workshops and other industry-related information. IJ Broadcasting is also making online video …