All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 19 2013 // A move to restructure Florida’s state-run property reinsurance facility by lowering its financial obligation to insurers is facing an uphill legislative battle as both lawmakers and members of the industry find...
Mar 18 2013 // For four out of the last seven years, the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund has been projected to have a shortfall should a major hurricane impact the state and cause the fund to pay out to its coverage limits. This is...
Mar 18 2013 // South Dakota’s growth in personal income from 2000 to 2011 surpassed the growth rate for both the region and the nation, the South Dakota Department of Labor & Regulation announced. South Dakota’s personal...
Mar 18 2013 // More than 10,000 people could die when – not if – a monster earthquake and tsunami occur just off the Pacific Northwest coast, researchers told Oregon legislators .Coastal towns would be inundated. Schools, buildings...
Mar 18 2013 // Federal regulators and safety officials should consider requiring more backup air supplies and work to develop better breathing devices that would help the nation’s coal miners escape underground emergencies, a panel...
Mar 15 2013 // A judge has overturned an $8.5 million verdict awarded to a former “Price is Right” model in a pregnancy discrimination case and ruled a new trial is necessary.Judge Kevin Brazile ruled Tuesday that he...
Mar 15 2013 // A defense lawyer says a ruling by a Columbia city judge could affect driving under the influence cases across South Carolina. The judge threw out breath test results because the police officer told the suspect to blow hard...
Mar 14 2013 // A state senator in Texas is taking the insurance industry to task for what he perceives as its disinterest in coming up with new approaches to solving coastal windstorm insurance issues.In a Senate committee meeting on...
Mar 14 2013 // The mass school shooting in Connecticut led officials to question if more should be done to beef up security in Florida’s public classrooms. Three months later, lawmakers are still grappling with how to respond,...
Mar 14 2013 // Corporate leaders from the defense, technology, energy and banking industries told President Barack Obama on Wednesday they agreed cyber attacks were a top security threat but that they were looking for a “light...
Mar 14 2013 // A new report from UK based market research, publishing and consulting firm Finaccord notes that “emerging markets in the Asia-Pacific region and Latin America offer the most growth potential for bancassurers but the...
Mar 14 2013 // The directors and officers liability market continued to see price increases in 2012, with more private/not-for-profit organizations reporting rate increases than public organizations but, according to a new industry...
Mar 13 2013 // In West Virginia and most other states, an insurer can choose not to renew people’s property insurance policy if a claim is filed over weather damage.A West Virginia Senate bill that would ban that practice was...
Mar 13 2013 // Lawmakers in the Florida Senate have taken steps to return the state-backed insurer Citizens Property Insurance Corp. to its original purpose of being a market of last resort by requiring it to charge actuarially sound...
Mar 12 2013 // A group of U.S. representatives from New York is proposing a bill that would stretch out the National Flood Insurance Program’s premium increase timeline.On Monday, U.S. Reps. Michael G. Grimm (R-N.Y.), Gregory Meeks...
Mar 12 2013 // Jefferson County, Kentucky judges have dismissed nearly 40 percent of the texting while driving charges brought under the state’s two-year-old ban while police and prosecutors say the ban is nearly impossible to...
Mar 12 2013 // U.S. farm groups are looking for a formula to lower crop subsidy spending dramatically and end regional infighting ahead of new congressional demands for cuts in a farm bill now costing $10 billion more than...
Mar 11 2013 // Three Democratic members of Congress from Connecticut, New Jersey and New York are voicing concerns about automatic federal budget cuts that will trim federal Superstorm Sandy aid.In a conference call on Friday, March 8,...
Mar 11 2013 // Wilson Combat, an Arkansas-based maker of custom firearms, is joining other small manufacturers across the county in adopting no sale policies to law-enforcement agencies in states that adopt strict laws on gun...
Mar 11 2013 // A Christians-only health care ministry would be allowed to resume operating in Kentucky under a measure that had been languishing in the Legislature only to be revived by a House committee last week.The House Banking and...