All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 4 2012 // Florida may not have enough money to pay off hurricane insurance claims if a big storm hits this year.An advisory panel recently concluded that the state may fall nearly $2 billion short of the total needed to cover all of...
Jun 4 2012 // The Injured Workers’ Insurance Fund (IWIF), Maryland’s state-run workers’ comp insurance carrier, will become a private, nonprofit company under a new name Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance, effective...
Jun 1 2012 // The Michigan Supreme Court says an insurance company doesn’t have to pay benefits in a hit-and-run case because the incident wasn’t reported within 30 days. The court’s conservative majority overturned a...
Jun 1 2012 // A woman who texted her boyfriend while he was driving cannot be held liable for a car crash he caused while responding, seriously injuring a motorcycling couple, a judge in New Jersey ruled last Friday in what is believed...
Jun 1 2012 // The R Street Institute, a new insurance free market think tank, has launched an insurance issue-oriented blog on InsuranceJournal.com.The blog, titled Right Street Blog, is being authored by Eli Lehrer, president of R...
Jun 1 2012 // SeaWorld Orlando’s $75,000 fine from the federal job safety agency for the death of a trainer by a killer whale two years ago has been reduced to $12,000, according to a judge’s ruling obtained Wednesday.The...
Jun 1 2012 // A pragmatic, free-market take on insurance related issues from R Street Institute’s Eli Lehrer.A one-time boss of mine—a bearded gentleman who liked cigars, opera, candy and the Austrian School of economics—used...
Jun 1 2012 // National healthcare reform legislation passed by Congress in 2010 may or may not survive consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court, but the healthcare system already has been evolving in ways that are likely to proceed...
May 31 2012 // A federal judge has spared a former Chicago executive the necessity of serving the final few months of his prison sentence for stealing millions from his insurance brokerage.U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo, citing...
May 31 2012 // As expected, the U.S. House of Representatives agreed with a Senate a measure extending the federal flood insurance program for 60 days until July 31.President Obama is expected to sign the legislation into law before the...
May 30 2012 // Facebook’s initial public offering has sparked lawsuits and investigations after a botched trading debut on the Nasdaq stock market delayed the completion of many orders and questions arose about selective...
May 29 2012 // A French court ruled that Google is not responsible for filtering content on YouTube, dealing a blow to French broadcaster TF1 which sought damages for copyrighted sports and movies which ended up on the video-sharing...
May 29 2012 // The Utah Supreme Court has paved the way for a lawsuit over the November 2008 death of a St. George high school student to proceed in federal court.In a 3-2 decision handed down Friday, justices ruled school districts...
May 24 2012 // Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee on Tuesday signed into law legislation designed to provide additional protection to homeowners when they suffer damages from hurricanes.The legislation (House bill 2012-H7484A and Senate...
May 23 2012 // The Injured Workers’ Insurance Fund (IWIF), Maryland’s state-run workers’ comp insurance carrier, will become a private, nonprofit company under a new name Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance, effective...
May 23 2012 // A federal judge in Texas has ordered that state parole officials can be held personally liable by inmates suing over restrictive sex-offender conditions required of them, even though they were never convicted of a sex...
May 23 2012 // The American Insurance Association has issued a statement, which points out several instances of a “disconnect between the continued significant global insurance capacity and a strong demand for insurance products...
May 22 2012 // Concerns about weather, costs and new regulations on temporary stages sparked by last year’s deadly stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair have prompted organizers to cancel an annual Fourth of July picnic and...
May 22 2012 // An Oklahoma workers’ compensation court judge has vacated an order he signed in favor of an attorney he plans to work for after leaving the bench.Judge Kent Eldridge told The Oklahoman in a copyright story that he...
May 22 2012 // Missouri’s financially troubled fund for injured workers will get no relief from the state Legislature for at least another year.The state Second Injury Fund takes businesses off the hook for paying the claims of...