All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 8 2012 // West Virginia will update its mine safety laws in the wake of the worst U.S. coal mining disaster in four decades.The House of Delegates sent the measure to Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin. Delegates approved several changes made by...
Mar 8 2012 // Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has vetoed a bill that would have expanded the cases in which people could use deadly force, siding with objections from law enforcement who said it could legalize murder in some cases.In his...
Mar 7 2012 // The Los Angeles Dodgers and the family of a baseball fan who was badly beaten at a game last year were encouraged by a bankruptcy judge to discuss a settlement of a negligence lawsuit.The family of Bryan Stow wanted U.S....
Mar 7 2012 // Three high-profile claims bills that would let victims of governmental negligence receive millions in compensation cleared the Florida House on Monday.The bills now go to the Senate. One bill (SB 4) would require that an...
Mar 7 2012 // The top U.S. securities regulator said on Tuesday her agency is exploring whether insurance companies can qualify for a coveted exemption in the proposed Volcker rule that would protect them from having to scale back their...
Mar 6 2012 // A lawsuit by a hunter seriously injured when a tree stand he was using collapsed has again prompted legislation to protect New Hampshire landowners from similar suits. The House could vote this week on a bill that says any...
Mar 5 2012 // An Oklahoma House of Representatives committee has voted to close a loophole in state law, ensuring that all daycare facilities have liability insurance.House Bill 1848, by state Rep. Mike Shelton, eliminates an exemption...
Mar 5 2012 // A bill aimed at cracking down on rampant fraud in the state’s personal injury protection insurance was passed Friday in the Florida House of Representatives.The bill (HB 119) was approved largely along party lines on...
Mar 5 2012 // Can technology positively impact a billion people in just 10 years? Possibly, if insurance is available.Consider taking a low-use personal automobile — which might sit idle most of the time — and making it available to...
Mar 5 2012 // The North Carolina Court of Appeals has waded into a legal tussle over the wrongful death of a Jack Russell terrier.Nancy and Herb Shera sued North Carolina State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine in 2009,...
Mar 5 2012 // When it comes to the captive insurance industry, slow and steady growth is just fine with the state of Missouri. But it’s not like the state is reluctant to encourage captives to form or relocate there. Far from...
Mar 5 2012 // Nevada is becoming the first of the U.S. states to regulate self-driving vehicles on its roadways.The state’s legislative commission has approved regulations that were vetted by car manufacturers, insurance...
Mar 5 2012 // BP Plc and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. are liable and Transocean Ltd. may be liable for civil damages under federal pollution laws over the catastrophic 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a U.S. judge ruled.The decision by U.S....
Mar 5 2012 // Linda Hall started as director of Alaska’s Division of Insurance on March 3, 2003, and nine-years later she’s calling it a day as the top authority on insurance in the land of the midnight sun.The state has...
Mar 2 2012 // A Senate bill aimed at cracking down on the rampant personal injury protection insurance fraud that costs Florida drivers more than $1 billion annually in premiums is headed to the full floor for what promises to be a...
Mar 1 2012 // A father crushed in a roof fall. A former schoolmate suffocated by poisoned air. Sharing stories of loved ones and friends killed in West Virginia’s coal mines, a unanimous House of Delegates passed safety...
Mar 1 2012 // Lawmakers in Kentucky have moved a step closer to discarding a longstanding traffic safety measure in the name of religious freedom, despite dire warnings that the move could lead to mayhem on the state’s...
Mar 1 2012 // Florida legislators, saying that they differ from rank-and-file state workers, have killed an effort to force themselves to pay more for their health insurance.The 160 members in the Florida Legislature pay among the...
Mar 1 2012 // A proposal to set up online computer checks to make sure drivers have auto insurance is again moving forward in the Mississippi House. A similar measure was vetoed last year by then-Gov. Haley Barbour.According to 2009...
Mar 1 2012 // Alabama regulators and public adjuster groups are lobbying state lawmakers to pass a bill that would allow the state for the first time to license and monitor the actions of public adjusters. Insurer groups, however, are...