The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies has joined New York Superintendent of Insurance Howard Mills in criticizing the methods Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has used to probe the insurance industry.

Robert Detlefsen, NAMIC public policy director, lashed out at what he termed Mr. Spitzer's "heavy-handed, self-aggrandizing tactics."

"It speaks well of Mr. Mills that he is more interested in maintaining the overall health of the industry than in grabbing headlines and preening before television cameras," he said.

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