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The National Association of Insurance Commissioners announced last week it has established a new task force to examine and address potential adverse impacts on the role of health insurance agents and brokers that stem from new health reform laws.

Industry groups will seek Congressional intervention to change MLR rules on agent compensation.

"Rein in costs." President Obama sounded that clarion call early on in his legislative offensive for health reform.

In the third quarter, whole life insurance sales improved 6 percent and increased by 15 percent in the first nine months of 2010, finds LIMRA's U.S. Individual Life Insurance Sales survey.

According to a study by the National Association of Health Underwriters, small businesses rely on health insurance agents and brokers to help with purchasing health insurance coverage that best fits their budget and health care requirements.

The Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday it has issued long-awaited final regulations on the medical loss ratio provision of the Affordable Care Act.