This will be a full-day conference on the prospects and directions of reform in insurance regulation. Cosponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institution, Georgia State University, and the Risk Foundation, the conference will include papers by well-known insurance and financial services scholars. Subjects will include the optional federal...

The Treasury Department’s plan to reform the federal regulatory structure for financial services has focused unusual attention on the insurance sector, which is part of the financial services industry but regulated solely at the state level. Among other things, the Treasury recommended that insurers have the option, like banks, to...