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Spitzer probe expands to life and health insurers.(Investigations)(Eliot Spitzer )

LIFE AND HEALTH INSURERS ARE being pulled into the mushrooming investigation first launched by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer into the practices of commercial insurance brokers and insurers.

The attorney general's office is investigating the practice of how brokers award clients' contracts to insurance companies and whether bid rigging is practiced by brokers and insurers.

That investigation is spreading to include inquiries from other attorneys general, including Connecticut's Richard Blumenthal. State insurance regulators also are starting collabor

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