All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 2 2013 // Sam Howell could barely speak seven years ago. He pointed at letters on a board to communicate.He struggled to stand by himself in his driveway. Recently, Sam, 26, opened the door for me at his home. He spent the next hour...
Jan 2 2013 // The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled that state regulators acted appropriately when they rejected Duke Energy Corp.’s bid to pass more than $11 million in repair costs incurred during a 2009 ice storm onto its...
Jan 2 2013 // The “fiscal cliff” deal that slowly, painfully took shape in the U.S. Congress in recent days fulfills some of corporate America’s tax policy goals, but leaves others unmet, including a big one –...
Jan 1 2013 // The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to split a $60.4 billion Superstorm Sandy disaster aid bill into two parts, staging votes on $27 billion to fund immediate recovery needs and $33 billion for long-term and...
Dec 31 2012 // Dec. 21, 2012 came and went and the apocalypse was so lackluster as to be forgotten among the year’s myriad headlines.Now that we are all well and good, and past doomsday, here are Insurance Journal’s best...
Dec 31 2012 // A Kanawha County judge has granted Attorney General Darrell McGraw’s request for a permanent injunction against an insurance company and a St. Albans body shop owner accused of illegally installing junkyard parts on...
Dec 28 2012 // Nearly two dozen years after Monroe Gunter retired from a long career at a Missouri power company, he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer often caused by exposure to asbestos.Gunter sued his former employer, claiming...
Dec 28 2012 // A divided auto insurance industry will try again next year to change a unique regulatory system in North Carolina, which enjoys some of the lowest rates in the country. The industry will use the argument that average costs...
Dec 26 2012 // A U.S. judge last Friday gave final approval to BP Plc’s settlement with individuals and businesses who lost money and property in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.The order only addressed the settlement of economic...
Dec 26 2012 // Two U.S. senators from Montana are urging federal safety regulators to wrap up a yearlong study into whether oil spills into rivers, lakes and other water bodies across the U.S. have resulted from inadequately buried...
Dec 26 2012 // Progress in making insurance regulatory changes has been slow, and there’s really nothing to indicate that the situation will change in the near future. The United States, however, has managed to make some relevant...
Dec 20 2012 // An Australian court has ruled that a bureaucrat who was injured while having sex on a business trip is eligible for workers’ compensation benefits.The Full Bench of the Federal Court ruled Dec. 13 in favor of the...
Dec 20 2012 // Texas workers’ compensation system regulators report that 56 insurance carriers have been deemed high performers in the system.Announcing the results of the fourth Insurance Carrier Performance Based Oversight...
Dec 19 2012 // Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a series of articles to look at California’s workers’ compensation reform law, which takes effect Jan. 1, 2013.Insurance carriers, along with the many stakeholders who...
Dec 19 2012 // Teachers and school administrators who receive proper training would be authorized to carry firearms on school campuses and at school events under a bill being drafted by an Oklahoma lawmaker.Republican Rep. Mark...
Dec 18 2012 // Proposed curbs on insurers aimed at preventing a repeat of AIG’s 2008 taxpayer bailout could raise the cost of insurance, making more people dependent on the state, a finance sector lobby group said.“As...
Dec 18 2012 // Although returns-on-equity for the property/casualty insurance industry are lagging in the mid-to-upper single-digit range, equity analysts expect companies they recommend with “Buy” ratings to garner returns...
Dec 17 2012 // Rural lawmakers worry that $9 billion in annual federal crop insurance subsidies are an easy target for spending cuts in a “fiscal cliff” deal so they’re shopping around for a late compromise on a farm...
Dec 17 2012 // Progress in making insurance regulatory changes has been slow, and there’s nothing to indicate that this situation will change in the future.The United States has, however, made relevant changes. Although it has 50...
Dec 14 2012 // Gov. Mary Fallin has appointed a Tulsa judge as the new presiding judge of the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Court.Fallin announced that Judge L. Brad Taylor will replace Judge Michael Harkey as the presiding judge...