All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 28 2015 // Uber Technologies Inc. won a ruling that may put off the outcome of a bid by California drivers to be treated as employees in a lawsuit that has grown dramatically in both size and potential liability.U.S. District Judge...
Dec 28 2015 // The state House’s budget leader says he wants to reassure South Carolina farmers devastated by October’s flooding disaster that the Legislature will help them out.Lawmakers must help farmers survive direct crop...
Dec 22 2015 // An Oklahoma judge has rejected a request from two energy companies to throw out a lawsuit by a woman who claims she was injured in an earthquake caused by the injection of wastewater.Lincoln County District Judge Cynthia...
Dec 21 2015 // It was another busy year for the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR). From conducting the annual property/casualty data call and subsequent stress test of Florida property insurers, to working on the depopulation...
Dec 21 2015 // The Senate passed the bill 65-33 on Friday, shortly after a 316-113 House vote. The legislation, which will finance the government through September 2016, goes to President Barack Obama, who plans to sign...
Dec 21 2015 // There was no shortage of new products launched by the insurance industry in 2015. Cyber, a risk that has consistently seen a lot of activity over at least the last several years, continued to be on the top of the...
Dec 21 2015 // State-based insurance regulation has a 145-year history of effectively and successfully protecting consumers and fostering competitive insurance markets. As the 2016 president of the National Association of Insurance...
Dec 21 2015 // Vermont, Utah, Iowa, Virginia and Kentucky get an “A” and North Carolina an “F” in one think tank’s annual grading of states on how they regulate the property/casualty insurance industry.The...
Dec 21 2015 // U.S. property/casualty insurers should expect disruptive changes in a number of areas in 2016, including technology, pricing, customer demand and “heightened regulatory creep,” consultant Ernst & Young...
Dec 21 2015 // State legislators in Ohio and Florida are moving ahead with regulations governing Uber and other ride services that would designate all drivers as independent contractors, bolstering a critical but much-disputed aspect of...
Dec 21 2015 // A U.S. District judge in California earlier this month granted class action status to a suit brought by female attorneys against Farmers Insurance for discriminatory practices.The initial suit was filed on behalf of Lynne...
Dec 18 2015 // Uber Technologies Inc. was barred from imposing a new contract on drivers who are suing the company to be treated like employees after a federal judge said the reworded agreement is confusing.U.S. District Judge Edward...
Dec 18 2015 // U.K. insurers have invested at least £3 billion ($4.5 billion) to be compliant with new European Union capital rules, known as Solvency II, that come into effect next month, according to an industry lobby group. More than...
Dec 17 2015 // Among the many issues that Massachusetts lawmakers may deal with after returning from recess in January is whether to bring the state into compliance with REAL ID, a federal program that sets new requirements for...
Dec 17 2015 // Kevin McCarty Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin M. McCarty was presented with the Latin American Association of Insurance Agencies (LAAIA) “Insurance Man of the Year” Award on Dec. 4. According to the...
Dec 16 2015 // The Missouri Department of Insurance has appointed John Talley as its new Captive Program Manager.Talley has nearly 25 years of insurance regulatory experience and was most recently chief of Captive Insurance Operations...
Dec 16 2015 // The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers (CIAB) announced four additions to its association staff.John P. Fielding is joining as in-house general counsel. Fielding has spent the last nine years with the law firm...
Dec 15 2015 // The next wave of hobby drones will be wrapped in boxes underneath Christmas trees before they fill the skies. If industry sales projections come true, the holiday season will put tens of thousands of relative novices at...
Dec 14 2015 // The ridesharing company Uber says it will soon begin operating in Birmingham, Ala., after city officials approved new regulations.Multiple media outlets report that city council members voted 7-1 on Dec. 8 to approve the...
Dec 14 2015 // The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is proposing that trucking companies be required to install stronger guards on their trailers to reduce deaths caused when cars rear-end tractor trailers.The agency...