All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 29 2014 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration announced today that Narragansett Bay Insurance Company will pay a $327,400 penalty for failing to perform timely inspections of Superstorm Sandy damage claims as required...
May 29 2014 // Louisiana state lawmakers are getting out of a dispute between New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson and the NFL team’s players about how to handle workers’ compensation claims for professional athletes.Rep....
May 28 2014 // A New York state judge has rejected a request by Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, the former American International Group Inc. chief executive officer, to dismiss a long-running civil lawsuit by the state’s...
May 28 2014 // A property/casualty insurance trade group is supporting proposed ride sharing regulations in Columbus, Ohio, but is urging the city council in Chicago, Ill., to delay action on proposed rules in that city.The Property...
May 28 2014 // A federal judge has reinstated a lawsuit that “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee filed against a museum in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. U.S. District Judge William Steele signed an order...
May 28 2014 // Companies known as data brokers collect and sell information about “nearly all” U.S. consumers, drawing potentially harmful conclusions about them largely without their knowledge, U.S. regulators said on...
May 27 2014 // Since taking over the legislature in 2011, North Carolina Republicans have trumpeted passing legislation designed to draw back the hand of government hanging over the private sector by getting rid of regulations they...
May 23 2014 // Despite a federal court order against their current law, Missouri legislators voted to toughen requirements even further for people seeking to work as insurance guides under President Barack Obama’s health care law.A...
May 23 2014 // The North Carolina Senate on Thursday voted to make it a crime to disclose the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, even as big U.S. oil companies elsewhere consider releasing more information about the...
May 23 2014 // The government has no way of fully knowing which U.S. chemical facilities stock ammonium nitrate, the substance that exploded last year at a Texas fertilizer plant and killed 14 people, congressional investigators say....
May 22 2014 // New York state lawmakers have passed legislation proposed by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio that would prevent higher tax bills for city residents who rebuilt or repaired their homes after they were damaged by...
May 22 2014 // When Jeb Hensarling took over the congressional panel that spawned the Dodd-Frank Act, he vowed to roll back the landmark Wall Street law and eliminate government programs that backstop private markets.More than a year...
May 21 2014 // Several state House members toured the newly renovated headquarters of the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission. About a half dozen Republican members on Tuesday visited the renovated third-floor of the Denver...
May 20 2014 // The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) has proposed new regulations to oversee private equity and investment firms’ acquisitions of insurance companies, especially acquisitions of annuity companies, in...
May 20 2014 // Jon Corzine and other former insiders of collapsed brokerage MF Global can tap another $10 million of insurance funds to defend lawsuits accusing them of hastening the firm’s downfall, a U.S judge said on...
May 19 2014 // Members of the military and their families would be able keep their current auto insurance policies when moving from one state to another state under a bill introduced in Congress.U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.), a senior...
May 19 2014 // Exxon Mobil Corp. isn’t responsible for alligators overrunning a rural dump site it owns in Mississippi, the state supreme court ruled, because the global oil explorer can’t control wild animals.The family that...
May 19 2014 // Ireland has been through some difficult economic times, but this year’s European Insurance Forum, held at the Four Seasons Hotel on May 15 and 16, highlighted the progress that’s been made, and the bright...
May 19 2014 // Rhode Island’s Department of Business Regulation, Insurance Division, on May 15 approved a +2.5 percent overall increase in advisory loss costs for workers’ compensation for industrial classes and an overall...
May 19 2014 // The NFL Players Association is asking player agents to warn clients that signing with the New Orleans Saints could subject them to unfavorable workers’ compensation benefits.In an email Friday, NFLPA chief DeMaurice...