National Flood Insurance Program extension eyed in Congress

Congress is weighing another extension to the National Flood Insurance Program, which is set to expire Sept. 30.

Maxine Waters

U.S. House Financial Services Housing Subcommittee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) ...  Read →  Read Story

New York Gov. David Paterson has appointed Robert E. Beloten as chair of the state’s workers’ compensation board, effective July 15.

Beloten replaces current chair Zachary Weiss, who announced his resignation ...  Read →  Read Story

CareFirst, D.C. Council negotiating ways to expand access to health care

Rather than create a new open enrollment program, health insurer CareFirst and Washington, D.C., lawmakers are working on alternatives to meet the requirements of a law passed last year to ...  Read →  Read Story

A little over halfway through his tenure as Pennsylvania’s insurance commissioner, Joel Ario feels he has a lot of work ahead of him.

Joel Ario

Ario, nominated by Gov. Ed Rendell ...  Read →  Read Story

Senate Democrats pitch fee for insurers to help foot bill for health reform

Indicating that private insurers stand to gain the most from millions of customers driven to them through health care reform legislation, three Democratic senators think its time insurers help foot ...  Read →  Read Story

MetLife to combine personal, business insurance units

New York-based MetLife, one of the nation’s largest insurers, plans to realign its institutional and individual businesses, as well as its Auto & Home unit, under one organization.

Officials with the ...  Read →  Read Story

Wilmington Trust has hired a team of corporate trust professionals to expand its ability to provide trust services for insurance products.

The Wilmington, Del.-based provider of institutional trustee, agency, and administrative ...  Read →  Read Story

A New York-based insurance company had its license to write policies in Virginia suspended.

Upper Hudson National Insurance Co. of Monticello, N.Y., failed to maintain its surplus at the $3 million ...  Read →  Read Story

A Bethesda, Md.-based agency has stepped up its agent recruitment efforts, part of a national effort to boost the ranks of agents working for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.

The Washington ...  Read →  Read Story

PIA president describes ‘nightmare’ reform scenarios

The president of the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) is voicing his concern over efforts in Washington, D.C., to reform health care and state insurance regulation, likening it ...  Read →  Read Story