NU Online News Service, July 27, 2:28 p.m. EDT

Arthur J. Gallagher's launch of a private insurance-exchange platform shows one broker's strategy to leverage the healthcare-reform law into new solutions for employee-benefit clients, but smaller brokers may find it difficult to duplicate such a platform, an industry watcher says.

The private insurance exchange will be an alternative to state exchanges—which are to begin offering coverage in 2014—envisioned under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).

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