All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 6 2019 // After seven years of failed attempts, Florida legislators passed property insurance reform to address the abuse of a policyholder benefit known as assignment of benefits (AOB).The insurance industry and consumer advocates...
May 6 2019 // Robert Bauer has joined insurance broker Marsh to lead its U.S. Sharing Economy & Mobility Practice. Bauer will focus on developing and delivering products and services to companies operating in the new economy while...
May 6 2019 // I received a nice notice from my commercial GL carrier advising the coverages at renewal would materially change. Admitted carriers have to provide such notices (E&O point: exceptions to this rule do exist, even for...
May 3 2019 // The Trump administration has agreed to rewrite regulations to help thousands of Louisiana homeowners with damage from the 2016 floods access federal aid, the state’s U.S. senators said Thursday.Republican Sens. Bill...
May 3 2019 // Congressional budget experts said this week that moving to a government-run health care system like “Medicare for All” could be complicated and potentially disruptive for Americans.The report from the...
May 3 2019 // The Trump administration unveiled on Thursday its final plan to roll back offshore drilling safety measures put in place by the Obama administration after the fatal 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the worst in U.S....
May 3 2019 // Hospitals in West Virginia have banded together to sue some of the country’s largest opioid companies, saying they flooded Appalachia with powerful painkillers and forced medical centers to deal with the financial...
May 2 2019 // Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has ordered a review of how Michigan’s auto insurers use non-driving factors such as education and credit scores to set premiums that rank among the nation’s highest.The Democrat’s...
May 2 2019 // Weeks after a massive fire at a Houston-area petrochemical storage facility garnered national attention, a panel of state lawmakers heard dueling testimony Monday night on a bill that would strengthen state oversight of...
May 2 2019 // South Carolina lawmakers are considering another proposal to improve ridesharing safety.A bill that would create a new misdemeanor crime of impersonating a rideshare driver was approved Tuesday by a House subcommittee....
May 1 2019 // Missouri lawmakers have advanced a bill to make it harder for courts to fine defendants as punishment for hurting people.The pending measure would raise the standard for what are called punitive damages, which courts use...
May 1 2019 // Pacific Gas & Electric Corp.’s top financial executives said during a bankruptcy meeting Monday they still haven’t determined when the utility can start compensating victims of recent wildfires started by...
May 1 2019 // I have a new hobby. It compliments one of my other hobbies, reading insurance policies. What is it?I’ve started reading legislation. What a thrill to print (yes, print) 16 pages of legislation. The numbered lines,...
May 1 2019 // Losses from the theft of cryptocurrencies from exchanges and fraud-related activities surged in the first quarter of the year to $1.2 billion, or 70 percent of the level for all of 2018, cyber-security firm CipherTrace...
May 1 2019 // Lawmakers drafting a bill to create rules governing online privacy hope to have a discussion draft complete by late May with a Senate committee vote during the summer, but disputes are likely to push that timetable back,...
May 1 2019 // The Florida House on Monday passed a compromise bill that would make texting while driving a primary offense, as well as create a hands-free area within school zones and construction zones where workers are present.The...
Apr 30 2019 // Kansas lawmakers have tightened the financial requirements for a license to operate nursing homes after state regulators were forced to take over 22 struggling facilities last year.Officials with the Kansas Department for...
Apr 30 2019 // On Jan. 16, an employee at the Texas Department of Insurance noticed an unwelcome pest in her fifth-floor office in one of the towers of downtown Austin’s William P. Hobby Jr. State Office Building.Her maintenance...
Apr 29 2019 // Oklahoma would establish rules regulating how to safely operate driverless vehicles navigating state highways under a bill passed by Legislature that has been sent to the governor’s office.Autonomous vehicles are...
Apr 29 2019 // A bipartisan group of Florida Cabinet members and state lawmakers is demanding that U.S. lawmakers pass a disaster-relief package for Hurricane Michael victims.Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis, Attorney General...