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The forum was created as a way to allow clients a place to connect and discuss changes within health care reform.

Insurer ponders investment strategies as it prepares for a positive coming year.

Insurers’ position strong in spite of some valuations being reviewed for credit quality, Fitch Ratings reports.

Directors' and officers' liability insurance (D&O), along with errors and omissions (E&O) coverage and fiduciary liability, constitute property and casualty (P&C) insurers' most direct underwriting exposure to the financial crisis, says Moody's Investors Service.

The American Medical Association says the lack of complete EHR systems on the market makes it hard for physicians to implement and use the technology before the Jan. 1, 2011 deadline.

Creating a council to detect systemic risks and building a consumer financial protection bureau are just two of the major challenges now facing regulators, says a panel of experts.

Conning Research says premium rebound will lag economic recovery.

Federal Insurance Office and rule-making phase are front-of-mind as Obama signs landmark legislation.

"All told, these reforms represent the strongest consumer financial protections in history," the President said.

ISO and Atmospheric and Environmental Research team to deliver instant online weather forensic data through ISO ClaimSearch.

The move is intended to foster further adoption of industrywide standards for data exchange between insurance carriers and distributors.

As stalemate on unemployment bill is broken, federal health insurance subsidy absent from legislation.

How the Fed's new authority will be exercised is unknown, but it embodies a major shift in the thinking about, and approach to, functional oversight since previous legislation on the topic.

Recent study notes low customer satisfaction among corporate risk managers as carriers and brokers retrench to improve their own bottom lines.

In wake of health care debate, Leslie Margolin takes leave to head coalition.

Fitch affirms Aetna and Lloyd’s of London ratings; A.M. Best upgrades NAICO; S&P lowers ratings on Cincinnati Financial Corp.'s operating insurance companies.

Once the bill is signed regulators will have the task of implementing hundreds of regulations and commencing dozens of studies.

Commercial property & casualty business is suffering from excess capacity in the hunt for market share, resulting in another quarter of declining renewal pricing, according to The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers’ second quarter Commercial P/C Market Index Survey. On average, renewal rates dropped by about 6% in the second quarter, compared with a 5% decrease in the first quarter of 2010, notes CIAB.

Organizations are most fearful that the return on investment isn't worth the cost of ownership.

Two of the industry’s top advocates in Washington give INN an inside look as landmark legislation passes.