Agency Management

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Putting a new label on CNA's excess-and-surplus lines business is just one small step in a building process being led by industry veteran John Angerami, the new head of CNA Select Risk.

A consumer group representative and a law professor told a Senate panel that they think the federal government should help regulate the insurance industry.

The gap between attractive prices being charged by incumbent directors and officers liability insurance carriers and higher premiums that have been charged by competitors in recent quarters has started to narrow, according to a broker executive.

The fact that health care bills in the House don't implement the most controversial reforms until 2013 should undermine arguments that coverage mandates will derail our economic recovery, says NU Editor Sam Friedman in his blog at www.NUSamSoapBox.com.

The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers quarterly survey of insurance brokers finds commercial property and casualty pricing continues to be soft, but results appear to indicate some trending to smaller declines than in past quarters.