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After two years of planning, the Target Market Program Administrators Association's virtual "Target University" will start offering its online coursework beginning the second-quarter 2011, with eight courses currently in the final testing stage.

The NAIC will likely adopt a minimal plan to collect surplus lines insurance taxes without tackling the bigger issue of uniform regulation between the states, after an association task force vote earlier this week.

Renewable energy will be a driver for growth in insurance premium, at least in Germany where there is firm commitment to the growth of the industry, according to Munich Re.

A pair of surveys about the commercial lines insurance market in the 2010 third quarter revealed that competition remains fierce and that the soft market is still far from over.

An economy showing mixed signs of recovery would hardly seem the optimum time to launch a business.

Regulators' proposed solution to the allocation of surplus lines taxes met industry opposition as regulators worked on a proposal to present to state legislators by the beginning of the year.