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Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
Leahy Keeps Up Fight For Antitrust Repeal
By Arthur D. PostalA group of 19 Democratic senators is still trying to get an antitrust exemption repeal provision into the final version of the health bill.
January 14, 2010
LOMA Sees Signs Of HopeLife insurance executives are cautiously optimistic about 2010.
January 14, 2010
Director Urges Former CEO To Stop Proxy BattleThe lead independent director of a northeastern insurer says he has asked the company's former chief executive officer to halt efforts to retake control of the company.
January 14, 2010
MassMutual: Divorce Bad For BusinessFew business owners seem to do much to "divorce proof" their businesses, according to Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company.
January 14, 2010
Insurance Industry Begins To Respond To Haiti Earthquake (Updated)Aetna Inc. (NYSE:AET), the first major U.S. life and health insurer to announce how it will respond to the Haiti earthquake, today said it will help arrange medical evacuations for employer clients with employees injured by the quake.
January 14, 2010
Agents Push Hard For State Role As Health Reform Negotiations Pick UpInsurance agents of all stripes are focusing on sustaining a strong role for state regulators in any new health care delivery regime.
January 14, 2010
Do Financial Giants Need Living Wills?The Troubled Asset Relief Program watchdog agency says the government will have to struggle to keep "implicit guarantees" from distorting the financial services markets even after TARP shuts down.
January 14, 2010
Feds Call For 0.15% "Excess Liability" TaxPresident Obama today joined with other officials to propose a new "financial responsibility fee" that could affect large insurers.