All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 12 2011 // The Oregon State Bar has cleared a Republican state lawmaker from central Oregon in a contract dispute between two of his clients.The Bulletin newspaper in Bend reports the bar found no basis for a claim of dishonesty...
Apr 12 2011 // Pennsylvania House lawmakers have passed a major tort reform bill, an agent-supported move that sets up a vote in the Senate that could happen as early as this month.The tort reform bill, also called the Fair Share Act, is...
Apr 8 2011 // State Insurance Superintendent John Franchini has approved a double-digit rate increase for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico.The rate increase will average 21 percent and affects about 40,000 people. The state...
Apr 8 2011 // The doors of West Virginia volunteer fire departments will stay open thanks to a new law that will help offset their workers’ compensation costs.West Virginia Acting Governor Earl Ray Tomblin has sign into law the...
Apr 8 2011 // U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter Jr., who presided over hundreds of Hurricane Katrina insurance cases, is retiring Friday.The Sun Herald reported that Senter and his staff have spent the week packing up his offices on the...
Apr 7 2011 // A House subcommittee yesterday approved a bipartisan bill to reauthorize and reform the nation’s flood insurance program.The 10 Republicans and eight Democrats on the Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity...
Apr 7 2011 // A proposal to extend some of the rights of marriage to same-sex couples and others who can’t legally marry, such as siblings, is winning little support amid Rhode Island’s debate over legalizing gay...
Apr 6 2011 // Insurers are praising the passage in Wisconsin of a bill that would reduce the mandatory minimum auto insurance liability limits in that state.The American Insurance Association (AIA) commended the Wisconsin State Senate...
Apr 6 2011 // The UK’s Conservative government announced, even before it was elected, that it planned to reform the country’s financial regulatory system – for banks, investment providers and the insurance industry.On...
Apr 5 2011 // With his Connecticut home-building business down more than 90 percent, the last thing Robert C. Fusari Sr. says he needs is a new rule telling him to spend thousands of dollars to install home sprinkler systems that...
Apr 5 2011 // A U.S. judge said he would dismiss claims against Toyota Motor Corp. by non-U.S. car buyers who say their vehicles lost value because of manufacturing defects.Toyota has recalled 19 million vehicles globally since 2009...
Apr 4 2011 // A key House subcommittee plans to mark up its final version of legislation to reauthorize and reform the federal flood insurance program this Wednesday.Rep. Judy Biggert, R-Ill., who chairs the Financial Services...
Apr 4 2011 // A move to deregulate a number of commercial lines of property/casualty insurance is making quiet progress in Florida.The legislation, which has already passed the House by a unanimous vote, would exempt insurance pricing...
Apr 4 2011 // The technology exists to prevent many bus crashes and to make it more likely passengers will survive those that do occur, but government regulators have failed to implement safety recommendations that in some case stretch...
Apr 4 2011 // State Insurance Commissioner Jay Bradford announced that Mel Anderson, the deputy commissioner for Financial Regulation at the Arkansas Insurance Department, has been selected by the Arkansas Society of Certified Public...
Apr 4 2011 // Maryland lawmakers are weighing whether to prohibit insurers from using credit scores to rate auto insurance policies — a move insurers say is a bad idea.The economic matters committee of the House of Delegates recently...
Apr 4 2011 // Vermont lawmakers may ask the Shumlin administration to produce recommendations for reforming the medical malpractice system in the state with an eye toward lowering health care costs. The issue of medical malpractice...
Apr 4 2011 // The federal government is no longer requiring that about 76,000 of the nation’s for-hire truckers carry cargo liability insurance.Over the objections of shippers and transportation brokers, the Federal Motor Carrier...
Apr 4 2011 // Dangerous Dams“Failure of one of these dams could result in loss of life or significant property damage.” —Peter Richardson, senior vice president of the Boston Society for Civil Engineers, commenting on...
Apr 4 2011 // Frustrated by rising home insurance rates, some North Carolina residents want a greater role in the rate approval process and state lawmakers are looking to give it to them.The North Carolina Insurance Committee is...