All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 24 2014 // Those in the insurance industry have another errors and omission (E&O) risk to consider these days, and they have technology to thank for it. Anyone in the insurance industry that possesses, stores, transmits or...
Feb 24 2014 // Data thefts at U.S. retailers have rekindled enthusiasm in Congress for a single federal law on how customers should be notified about such breaches, but those efforts face the same roadblock as in the past: dozens of...
Feb 24 2014 // A new law in Vermont would soon authorize the state to license and regulate specialized Vermont-based companies whose only purpose would be to buy and manage closed blocks of non-admitted commercial insurance policies and...
Feb 24 2014 // New York’s financial regulator recently revealed new details on his agency’s plans to govern virtual currency firms in the state in order to protect consumers and combat money laundering. Benjamin Lawsky,...
Feb 21 2014 // The White House announced steps on Thursday designed to reduce frivolous patent lawsuits by trying to make it easier to identify who owns patents and by updating review processes to ensure that fewer weak patents are...
Feb 20 2014 // Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin on Wednesday signed the Vermont Legacy Insurance Management Act (LIMA). The new law would allow the formation of specialized, Vermont-based companies to acquire and manage closed blocks of...
Feb 20 2014 // Iowa lawmakers granted initial approval of a bill that would further crack down on texting while driving by allowing officers to pull over motorists suspected of that sole offense.A three-member Senate transportation...
Feb 20 2014 // Some Connecticut lawmakers have resurrected a proposal from last year to expand the state’s workers’ compensation law to cover employees who’ve suffered an emotional or mental impairment after witnessing...
Feb 19 2014 // Bank of America Corp.’s $8.5 billion settlement with mortgage-bond investors won’t be delayed after American International Group Inc. and other objectors asked for a hearing to address loan modifications...
Feb 19 2014 // The Houston Health Department likely won’t have to pay for additional training for most of the “navigators” who are helping city residents enroll in the new federal health insurance marketplace. All it...
Feb 18 2014 // Roy Woodall, the insurance sector voting member of the Financial Stability Oversight Council, will finally be getting involved in the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) but as an observer, not a...
Feb 18 2014 // A new law in Vermont would soon authorize the state to license and regulate specialized Vermont-based companies whose only purpose would be to assume and manage closed blocks of non-admitted commercial insurance policies...
Feb 18 2014 // Mississippi could tighten its law against sending text messages while driving. The House passed House Bill 484 last Thursday. It would ban texting while driving for anyone 18 or younger. Current law bans it for any younger...
Feb 14 2014 // Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy proposed legislation Tuesday clarifying that domesticated horses cannot be considered vicious, responding to a legal claim over a horse at a Milford farm in Connecticut that threatens a...
Feb 14 2014 // Virginia’s ban on gay marriage was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge who said it violated the equal-protection rights of the state’s residents including couples married legally in other states.The...
Feb 14 2014 // BMS Associates Limited, the independent specialist insurance group, has appointed Angela Darling as its new Group Corporate Governance Director with effect from early March.The newly created post “will bring together...
Feb 13 2014 // A federal judge on Feb. 12 agreed to temporarily block an Oklahoma pharmacy from providing an execution drug to the Missouri Department of Corrections for use in an upcoming lethal injection.The temporary restraining order...
Feb 13 2014 // Kentucky was ordered by a federal judge to recognize same-sex marriages made in other states as similar challenges were filed in Louisiana and Missouri, escalating litigation over gay rights in courts nationwide.U.S....
Feb 12 2014 // New York’s financial regulator on Tuesday revealed new details on his agency’s plans to govern virtual currency firms in the state in order to protect consumers and combat money laundering.Benjamin Lawsky,...
Feb 12 2014 // Yesterday the National League of Cities joined the Florida League of Cities, Florida Association of Counties and others in meetings with White House officials and members of Congress to urge a halt to flood insurance...