All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 17 2011 // Republicans will escalate their push to delay and defund the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reforms on Thursday as top regulators appear before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee with a new chairman presiding.Replacing Christopher...
Feb 16 2011 // With a massive hole in the state’s budget and the duty to redistrict, insurance issues are likely to be low priority items for Texas 82nd Legislature, which began its session in January. But Texas agents are backing...
Feb 16 2011 // Michigan law legalizing medical marijuana doesn’t stop private businesses from firing people for drug use, a federal judge said in dismissing a lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc.U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker...
Feb 15 2011 // A non-profit workers’ compensation research organization that maintains its work is independent of the industry and objective has found itself at the center of a controversy in North Carolina over whether to trim...
Feb 15 2011 // Lawyers involved in corporate litigation understandably might want to avoid the newest judge on one of the top U.S. business courts.The judge, Vice Chancellor Travis Laster, has brought some unusual tactics to the bench at...
Feb 14 2011 // Austin, Texas-based 360training.com has appointed Matt Ray as director of Regulatory and Accreditation. Previously, Ray served in various roles with Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) for more than 23 years, most recently...
Feb 14 2011 // The New York Senate Committee on Insurance is scheduled to hear bills this afternoon that would extend insurance agents’ license renewals, allow multiple rating plans for personal lines insurers and clarify laws...
Feb 14 2011 // The Michigan Senate has approved a bill that would prevent administrative rules mandating workplace ergonomics rules.The bill from Republican Sen. Rick Jones of Grand Ledge was approved by a 25-12 vote last Thursday and...
Feb 11 2011 // On issues ranging from the air we breathe to the noise factories make, business leaders want the government to stay out of their way. And the Republicans, looking toward the 2012 elections, are listening.The House’s...
Feb 10 2011 // The Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act (NRRA), Subtitle B, Part I, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, will usher in a new era of premium taxation and regulation for surplus lines insurance on...
Feb 10 2011 // The Florida House Subcommittee on Insurance and Banking has approved a bill that would codify the Florida Workers’ Compensation Joint Underwriting Associations’ current rating plan and create the position of...
Feb 10 2011 // The South Carolina House of Representatives approved limits on punitive damages yesterday by a vote of 100 to 7.The bill would limit punitive damages for people winning civil suits to three times the actual damages...
Feb 9 2011 // The Allstate Corp., the nation’s largest publicly held personal lines insurer, is getting out of the banking business.Discover Bank, a division of Discover Financial Services, is purchasing the $1.1 billion deposits...
Feb 9 2011 // Insurers have come out against a move by South Carolina lawmakers to extend general liability policies to include construction defects.The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) says such a move would add...
Feb 8 2011 // Minimum levels of car insurance that were increased two years ago would drop back down again under a bill up for a vote in the state Senate.Trial lawyers fought for the changes approved by the Democratic-controlled...
Feb 8 2011 // For the second straight week, the Florida Banking and Insurance Committee failed to reach a final vote on its comprehensive property insurance bill. The delay comes as committee members remain bogged down over how to...
Feb 8 2011 // The Florida Senate and Banking Insurance Committee has approved a bill that would deregulate a variety of commercial lines of insurance by allowing insurers to offer the coverage without first obtaining the Office of...
Feb 8 2011 // UK businesses are “dangerously exposed to the possibility of heavy fines under the latest UK and EU legislation regarding environmental liability,” according to Aon.The bulletin added that in order to help...
Feb 7 2011 // Seeking Revenue“Given the difficult economy, it is understandable why the city of Sacramento is looking for new revenue sources. However, putting this burden on out-of-town drivers is unfair.” —Sam Sorich,...
Feb 7 2011 // A Texas-based workers’ compensation insurer has lost its appeal of rulings by the Florida insurance commissioner that have blocked it from doing business in the state.On Jan 20, without explanation, a three-judge...