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		<title>Insurance Regulators, Trades Get Behind Latest Effort to Abolish FIO</title>
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					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chad Hemenway]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The nation&#8217;s insurance commissioners and industry trade associations are looking to support efforts to put the Federal Insurance Office (FIO) back on the chopping block. Late last week, Rep. Troy Downing, R-Mont., introduced the McCarran-Ferguson Restoration Act to eliminate the &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Thumbs Down on SELF DRIVE Act as Written, Says Industry Trades</title>
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					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chad Hemenway]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Federal lawmakers have begun to discuss numerous pieces of legislation focusing on the evolving automobile industry, with legislation addressing consumer data rights, parts and repair, pedestrian safety, driver-assistance technology and even catalytic-converter theft. In preparation for a hearing Jan. 13, &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Industry Trade Associations Throw More Support Behind FEMA Reform</title>
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					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chad Hemenway]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The American Property Casualty Insurance Association and the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies were among a handful of organizations to send a letter to federal lawmakers in support of a bill to reform the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Industry Groups Applaud Bill to Treat Forests, Mitigate Wildfire Risk</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 06:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Insurance industry trades praised a Senate committee for the passage this week of the Fix Our Forests Act, a measure to address high-risk wildfire regions. &#8220;The risk of wildfire can no longer be ignored or underestimated. We need action to &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>NAMIC to Federal Lawmakers: Do Your Job on Flood Insurance Program</title>
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					<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Two weeks into the expiration of the National Flood Insurance Program, one of the insurance industry&#8217;s trade associations is once again calling for a reauthorization. The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) on Oct. 16 issued a statement directed &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Insurance Industry, Others Press Congress to Act on NFIP at Deadline</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2025/09/30/841102.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Admin]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Organizations representing the insurance, real estate, mortgage banking, financing, and property management industries sent a letter to Congressional leaders calling for quick action to extend the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The program expires at the end of Sept. 30. &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Update: National Flood Insurance Program Expires</title>
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					<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[About six months after Congress passed a short-term reauthorization, the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) expired Oct.1—a prospect that will cause coverage lapses for policyholders with expiring contracts at the traditional height of hurricane season, and major problems for real &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Insurance Industry Reps Back Reauthorization of Federal Terrorism Backstop</title>
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					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Admin]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Marsh McLennan lost 358 employees in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, and in Washington today Michelle Sartain, who has worked at Marsh for more than 28 years, encouraged lawmakers to reauthorize the Terrorism &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Effort to Close Litigation Funding Tax Loophole Added to Federal Budget Bill</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2025/06/17/828109.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Admin]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Within changes submitted by U.S. Senate Republicans to President Donald Trump&#8217;s tax bill is language that would close a tax &#8220;loophole&#8221; for third-party litigation funders. According to text released Monday by U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, to &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>US House Bill Reintroduced to Rid Federal Insurance Office of Subpoena Power</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2025/05/15/823897.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Admin]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 16:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Rep. Scott Fitzgerald on May 15 reintroduced a bill to eliminate the subpoena power of the Federal Insurance Office (FIO). The Insurance Data Protection Act was first presented by Fitzgerald, R-Wis., to the U.S. House of Representatives in September 2023. &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>NAMIC, Big &#8216;I&#8217; Join Call to Do Away With Federal Insurance Office</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2025/04/11/819529.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Admin]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies and the Independent Insurance Agents &#38; Brokers of America are the latest from the industry to join a call in support of a measure to abolish the Federal Insurance Office. The trade groups &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>States&#8217; AI-Related Legislation Aimed at Insurance Is &#8216;Unfounded&#8217;, Says NAMIC</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2025/03/25/817073.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Admin]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Policy discussions on the use of artificial intelligence in insurance are &#8220;unfounded&#8221; and &#8220;detrimental to policyholders,&#8221; according to a analysis from the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies. The use of AI in insurance underwriting and rate making has led &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Treasury&#8217;s FIO Releases &#8216;Flawed&#8217; Homeowners Insurance Report, Industry Says</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2025/01/22/809103.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 15:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Treasury&#8217;s Federal Insurance Office last week released what it called the &#8220;most comprehensive data on homeowners insurance in history.&#8221; Weeks after a U.S. Senate committee released a study and held a hearing on the affect of climate change &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>People Moves: NAMIC Promotes Cotto to Counsel of Federal and Political Affairs</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 07:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) promoted Tony Cotto to assistant vice president and counsel for federal and political affairs. He previously served as NAMIC&#8217;s director of auto and underwriting policy. Cotto will represent NAMIC before federal officials &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>3rd-Party Litigation Funding, Federal Regs Among Insurance Trades&#8217; Priorities for 2025</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2024/12/27/805868.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[This story has been corrected to include the correct year in the headline. Insurance trade organizations are always working for the industry so Insurance Journal asked them: What are the top priorities and/or challenges heading into 2025? Here are the &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Industry Trades Applaud New FIO-NAIC Partnership on Data Collection</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2024/03/11/764300.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2024 15:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Treasury late last week backed off a plan to have the Federal Insurance Office (FIO) collect data on climate-related risks from property/casualty insurers—an outcome that had been sought by the insurance industry since the proposal was published in &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Industry Trades Rail Against Federal Climate Disclosure Bill</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2023/08/01/732856.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2023 05:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Federal legislation introduced last week that would require insurance companies with more than $100 million in annual premiums to disclose investments and underwritings related to coal, oil and gas projects, and fossil fuels is already required at the state level &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Industry Trades Respond to FIO&#8217;s Proposal to Collect Climate Change Data</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2022/10/19/690780.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2022 05:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Shortly after Treasury&#8217;s Federal Insurance Office (FIO) proposed to have P/C insurers submit homeowners insurance underwriting data to assess climate risk, the response from industry trade associations was, at best, tepid. &#8220;You don&#8217;t need a massive data collection to know &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mutual Insurer Trade Group NAMIC&#8217;s CEO Chamness to Retire</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2019/09/26/541275.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2019 05:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies announced that Charles Chamness, the chief executive officer of the organization, is retiring from the post he held for nearly 17 years. The official announcement came this week on the final day of &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Insurance Industry in Best Position to Advance Consumer Trust in Automated Driving</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2018/10/09/503752.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2018 13:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[While the race to automated vehicles picks up speed, a new survey reveals consumer are skeptical of the technology and the safety claims of its advocates, a new survey finds. Also, the insurance industry may be in the best position &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Florida Lawmakers Once Again Fail to Pass AOB Claims Reform</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2017/05/09/450343.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy O'Connor]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2017 05:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[assignment of benefits (AOB)]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[Florida lawmakers have once again let slip an opportunity to address insurance claims abuse, as legislation failed to make it through the Senate before the 2017 legislative session ended Friday. This is the fifth consecutive year that a bill on &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>NAMIC Taps Harford Mutual&#8217;s Linkous as Chairman</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2016/09/28/427762.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2016 19:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The new chairman of the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies is Steve Linkous, president and CEO of Bel Air, Maryland-based Harford Mutual Insurance Companies. In his address at the group&#8217;s annual convention in Vancouver, Linkous urged members to seize &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Opposing Sides File Briefs in Challenge to Oklahoma&#8217;s Work Comp Opt-Out</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2016/08/30/424834.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie K. Jones]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2016 15:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Texas / South Central News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Insurance Association (AIA)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Minick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (namic)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oklahoma Employee Injury Benefit Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oklahoma Option]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oklahoma workers' compensation commission]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[The constitutionality of Oklahoma&#8217;s workers&#8217; compensation alternative, the Oklahoma Option, which was established in the 2013 overhaul of the state&#8217;s workers&#8217; comp system, is currently being challenged in an appeal to the state Supreme Court. The Oklahoma Employee Injury Benefit &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Insurers Applaud FAA Reauthorization Provision on Drone Use in Disasters</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2016/07/14/420021.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2016 10:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[FAA drone regulations]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[Insurers could soon be able to deploy drones for speedier response to natural disasters under a provision in legislation reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration passed by the Senate Wednesday. &#8220;The process called for in this legislation represents a vital step &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Insurance Trade Groups Oppose Minnesota Auto Insurance Bill</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2016/03/17/402282.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2016 16:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Midwest News]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[Property/casualty insurance trade groups, the American Insurance Association (AIA) and the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC), have submitted testimony to the Minnesota Legislature in opposition to a proposed auto insurance regulation bill the groups say is misguided. According &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Comparing Mutual to Stock Insurers Is Like Comparing Marathoners to Sprinters</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2015/10/15/384971.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Admin]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2015 08:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[National News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A.M. Best mutual insurers reprt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Chamness]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[A.M. Best&#8217;s recently released 2015 &#8220;Mutuals at a Glance&#8221; report is an interesting report on differences between mutual and stock companies in key areas of performance. In its pages is a depiction of a mutual insurance industry that is strong, &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fairmont Farmers Mutual&#8217;s Stueven Assumes NAMIC Chairmanship</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2015/09/30/383439.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2015 19:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Paul Stueven, chief operating officer and treasurer of Fairmont Farmers Mutual Insurance Co. of Fairmont, Minn., today assumed the chairmanship of the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) at the organization&#8217;s annual meeting in San Diego. Stueven has worked &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Insurers Disappointed as Supreme Court Backs Disparate Impact Claims</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2015/06/25/373004.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Admin]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2015 14:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court said people who file housing-discrimination suits don&#8217;t have to show they were victims of intentional bias, in a blow to lenders and insurers and a surprise legal victory for the Obama administration. The 5-4 ruling upholds &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Insurers Win Case to Kill HUD Disparate Impact Rule</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2014/11/03/345769.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew G. Simpson]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2014 22:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Insurance Association (AIA)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disparate impact in housing]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[Property/casualty insurer trade groups won a court victory Monday when a federal judge ruled in their favor that the U.S. Fair Housing Act does not prohibit housing practices including the pricing of homeowners insurance that have a disparate impact on &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wisconsin&#8217;s Nygren Receives NAMIC&#8217;s State Legislator of Year Award</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2014/10/15/343724.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2014 16:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) presented its State Legislator of the Year Award to Wisconsin state Rep. John Nygren for his support of free-market principles and strong positions to improve the insurance market in the state. The &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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