All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 2 2016 // A fight over Uber’s plans to expand throughout New York State is escalating as lawmakers enter the final weeks of their 2016 legislative session.The app-based ride-hailing service wants state regulations that would...
Jun 2 2016 // A Baton Rouge lawmaker’s bid to create payment plans for people struggling to pay unpaid fines from lapsed car insurance coverage is headed to the governor’s desk.With a 94-0 vote, the House gave final passage...
Jun 2 2016 // Insurance technology firm Atticus Associates has launched its data quality platform, Atticus DQPro, with London-based specialty insurer Brit Ltd. as its first customer.“DQPro has been built for the needs of the...
Jun 1 2016 // The number of immigrants seeking driver’s licenses in New Mexico surged during the first three months of the year as lawmakers debated changes to a long-contested policy that allowed for those living in the country...
Jun 1 2016 // Anbang Insurance Group Co. withdrew its application to the New York Department of Financial Services to acquire Fidelity & Guaranty Life and plans to refile “in the near future,” according to a regulatory...
Jun 1 2016 // European Union governments should not ban services like home-rental site Airbnb or ride-hailing app Uber except as a last resort, the EU says in new guidelines, seeking to rein in a crackdown on the “sharing...
Jun 1 2016 // A Republican Tennessee lawmaker says getting a traffic camera ticket isn’t a problem – he just burns them.State Rep. Andy Holt set such ticket ablaze on May 26 and posted the video to Facebook. A news release...
May 31 2016 // New York City plans to start enforcing a first-of-its-kind requirement for chain restaurants to use icons to warn patrons of salty foods after getting an appeals court’s go-ahead on May 26 to start issuing fines. But...
May 31 2016 // Trade representatives for the United States and the European Union, who met May 24 and 25 to negotiate a bilateral covered agreement on regulations for insurers and reinsurers, on Friday issued a joint statement indicating...
May 31 2016 // Controversial cyber security regulations for China’s insurance industry, now before the World Trade Organization (WTO), could soon take effect despite efforts by foreign business groups to persuade Beijing to change...
May 31 2016 // Florida businesses could soon be paying almost 20 percent more for workers’ compensation coverage. In response to a recent decision from the Florida Supreme Court, the National Council on Compensation Insurance...
May 27 2016 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. (PIANY) said New York State Assembly has introduced a PIANY-drafted bill (A.10378) that would eliminate the need for agents and brokers to take duplicate...
May 27 2016 // A federal judge has recommended that former Tennessee associate director of sports medicine Jenny Moshak and two ex-Lady Volunteers strength coaches should recover more than $460,000 in attorneys’ fees as part of the...
May 26 2016 // Lawmakers in the House have spurned a proposed program that would allow law enforcement agencies to automatically scan motorists’ license plates.The House and Governmental Affairs Committee voted 7-3 to kill the...
May 26 2016 // Legislation with bipartisan support that would revamp U.S. chemical safety law for the first time in decades is advancing in Congress, winning overwhelming passage in the House of Representatives as backers sought quick...
May 25 2016 // Data released at a May 24 hearing to determine the competitiveness of earthquake insurance coverage in Oklahoma shows that four insurance companies have 55 percent of the market in the state.That’s a concern for...
May 24 2016 // Leading U.S. insurers have nearly half-a-trillion dollars invested the fossil fuel energy and the electric and gas utility sectors, according to a report out today that urges state insurance regulators and board members of...
May 24 2016 // In testimony submitted to Oklahoma’s insurance commissioner, the American Insurance Association (AIA) has suggested that the state look at mitigation, rather than further regulation of the earthquake insurance market...
May 24 2016 // Insurers have had about enough of hedge funds.Stung by market-trailing returns, the insurance industry in the U.S. is reversing course after more than doubling its hedge fund allocation over five years, to $17.7 billion as...
May 23 2016 // Cancer patients and survivors are lobbying lawmakers to make Michigan the latest in a long line of states to require equal insurance coverage of chemotherapy regardless of whether the drugs are given by needle or taken...