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Between April and May, commercial and personal insurance rates held steady at -2% and +1%, respectively, according to the latest MarketScout pricing survey.

The Big “I” will host a free webinar next week to help agents dissect a complicated new Department of Labor regulation that impacts the sale of certain retirement products.

This week, Roy Wright, FEMA’s deputy associate administrator for insurance and mitigation, announced NFIP changes aimed at increasing transparency and oversight.

On Thursday, June 9, the Big “I” will host a free webinar to help agents dissect a new Department of Labor regulation that impacts the sale of certain retirement products.

In response to numerous questions about the Department of Labor’s overtime rule, the Big “I” has prepared a Q&A document that summarizes the changes and how they will affect insurance agencies.

The Federal Reserve will soon release proposed capital rules for the insurance companies under its regulatory authority.

At this week’s National Flood Conference in Washington, D.C., a variety of speakers—including two Big “I” leaders—provided information to flood service providers on all aspects of the NFIP.

Mid-May, The Department of Labor released its final rule on overtime compensation, which will add new regulatory burdens and costs to many Big “I” member agencies and their small business clients.

Zubretsky, who has more than 35 years of experience in the insurance and financial services industries, wants to help independent agencies thrive in an evolving p-c market.

This week, the Big “I” participated in a panel discussion on a bill that would revise the federal Liability Risk Retention Act to allow some risk retention groups to write nearly all forms of commercial insurance for many nonprofit organizations and educa