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The Washington Post
Jun 4 2009 - 10:49am

As the Obama administration puts the finishing touches on a plan to overhaul financial regulation, the life insurance industry today issued a plea for one of its top priorities: giving insurers the ability to choose whether they are supervised by state or federal regulators, The Post's David Hilzenrath reports.

Life insurers are currently regulated at the state level, making it hard for the federal government to monitor their financial health and any risk they might pose to the...

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Jun 4 2009 - 10:47am

More than a decade after Harvard researchers first revealed that life and health insurance companies were major investors in tobacco stocks – prompting calls upon them to divest – the insurance industry has yet to kick the habit.

A new article on insurance company holdings, published in today’s New England Journal of Medicine, shows that U.S., Canadian and U.K.-based insurance firms hold at least $4.4 billion of investments in companies whose subsidiaries manufacture...