All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 10 2014 // The Kansas Insurance Department is asking the Legislature for permission to raise fees paid by insurance companies because the state has diverted millions of dollars from its regulatory fund for other purposes.Zachary...
Feb 7 2014 // It’s a common practice among drivers who pass through a speed trap: Flash your headlights at approaching cars as a warning to slow down. Now, a federal court judge in Missouri says penalizing drivers for the...
Feb 7 2014 // A judge has ordered a Texas teenager who was sentenced to 10 years’ probation in a drunken-driving crash that killed four people to go to a rehabilitation facility paid for by his parents.Judge Jean Boyd on Feb. 5...
Feb 7 2014 // A Northern California judge has found the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection guilty of ‘egregious and reprehensible’ conduct in its response to the 2007 Moonlight Fire and ordered the agency...
Feb 7 2014 // A top U.S. senator is vowing to pursue rules governing in-vehicle use of mobile phones and Internet-connected entertainment systems unless automakers and technology companies do more to reduce driver distractions.Senate...
Feb 6 2014 // As part of his administration’s plan for new tax revenues, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick recently proposed applying a corporate tax rate to the state’s “pass-through entities” that are owned by...
Feb 6 2014 // U.S. senators said they will take up a bill as soon as this week to require inspections and clean-up plans for chemical storage tanks, over the objection of industry, after a West Virginia spill tainted drinking...
Feb 6 2014 // The state versus federal oversight discussion is a “binary debate” that is a relic of a bygone era, the director of the Federal Insurance Office told lawmakers at a Congressional hearing Tuesday.FIO Director...
Feb 6 2014 // A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Limited (AMBERS) has confirmed that it has obtained External Credit Assessment Institution (ECAI) status under new European Union (EU) regulations, which came into force in January...
Feb 5 2014 // There are a number of bills currently under consideration by state Legislature that may be of interest to agents, brokers and insurance professionals in general.Lobbyist John Norwood, owner of Norwood Associates in...
Feb 5 2014 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI)said it has added three new hires. Tom Glassic will join the association as vice president, policy and government relations; Nicole Austin will join the...
Feb 5 2014 // The Federal Insurance Office (FIO)’s recent report on how to improve and modernize insurance regulation has received a range of reactions since its publication in December. Recently a business law scholar at the...
Feb 5 2014 // Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, the former chairman of American International Group Inc., lost his bid to remove a judge from a lawsuit brought in 2005 by the New York state attorney general accusing him of...
Feb 5 2014 // Georgia would take the first steps to regulating the use of drones through legislation under consideration in the General Assembly.Rep. Harry Geisinger, R-Roswell, has sponsored a bill that would provide for the lawful use...
Feb 4 2014 // The Senate passed and sent to President Barack Obama a measure that sets U.S. agricultural policy for five years, ending the toughest legislative battle on renewal of the farm bill in almost two decades with cuts to crop...
Feb 4 2014 // The Kansas Insurance Department is asking the Legislature for permission to raise fees paid by insurance companies because the state has diverted millions of dollars from its regulatory fund for other purposes.Zachary...
Feb 4 2014 // Small farms have been off-limits to the federal agency that oversees workplace safety for decades. But lawmakers in North Dakota and other states have grown sufficiently concerned that they’re warning the Obama...
Feb 4 2014 // A federal judge has dismissed Kmart Corp.’s lawsuit over flood damage to one of its stores in Corinth.U.S. District Judge Glen Davidson ruled that Kmart has insufficient evidence to support its arguments that the...
Feb 4 2014 // Crop insurers successfully lobbied to keep several proposals out of the farm bill set to pass the U.S. Congress today — such as a requirement that would have forced farmer-lawmakers to disclose benefits they...
Feb 4 2014 // Near the National Key Deer Refuge in Florida’s Lower Keys, on a sleepy street called Mango Lane, retired sheriff’s deputy Huey Gordon checked the waterway behind neighbor Doug Varrieur’s home for boat...