All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 19 2010 // The Contractors Access Program of California (CAP), a self insured group, has been declared in default due to insufficient funding required for continued operation, California’s Department of Industrial Relations...
Nov 18 2010 // A lawyer for the plaintiffs says attempts to settle a long-running water pollution lawsuit against Massey Energy Co. have failed. Two judges on West Virginia’s mass litigation panel have been trying to mediate a...
Nov 18 2010 // Many states are making progress toward making roads safer, but Oregon and Washington do the best of promoting roadway safety with traffic laws, according to a new report by the Emergency Nurses Association.The report...
Nov 18 2010 // Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West (IBA West) is working to persuade the California Department of Insurance to phase-in implementation of provisions of a new law (AB 2782) that will require property/casualty...
Nov 17 2010 // A government audit of the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance (TDCI) has found that the agency has managed to reduce costs and operate efficiently during the economic downturn.In fact, the state...
Nov 16 2010 // Bob McBride Jr. was 18 when he pushed a flat-bottomed boat holding his family and neighbors through chest-high water to safety in Tangipahoa Parish. Nearly 30 years later, he and hundreds of others still are waiting for...
Nov 14 2010 // A federal judge has limited the D.C. Metro’s potential liability in a suit brought by survivors of those killed in the 2009 crash on the red line by ruling that the transit agency can’t be faulted under federal...
Nov 14 2010 // The federal government’s crackdown on fraud and errors in Medicare and Medicaid is raising liability issues for firms that specialize in managing claims and billing for these programs – and has some scampering...
Nov 14 2010 // It’s a new day in several state houses in the Southeast, which has been red for years but went even redder as it got caught up in the Republican tide that swept the nation.Voters elected new Republican governors in...
Nov 14 2010 // In what’s being called “a major victory for insurance agents and brokers,” the California Office of Administrative Law has approved Department of Insurance plans to repeal certain portions of its privacy...
Nov 14 2010 // Sean McGovern, Lloyd’s general counsel and, since February 2010, the director of Lloyd’s North America, may still have time to pursue his favorite pastime – sailing – but he may find it more...
Nov 11 2010 // For banks under regulatory oversight, Business Risk Partners (BRP) is now offering professional and management liability protections for distressed community banks, including hard-to-find Regulatory Defense Cover for...
Nov 11 2010 // A federal judge has given thousands of 9/11 rescue and recovery workers more time to join a legal settlement that would pay millions of dollars to people sickened by dust from the World Trade Center, if enough of them...
Nov 10 2010 // A judge has limited the potential liability of the public transit agency in the District of Columbia in a suit brought by survivors of those killed in the 2009 crash on the Metro red line by ruling that the transit agency...
Nov 9 2010 // Florida insurance officials have agreed that three Bermuda-based reinsurers can participate in Florida’s insurance marketplace without having to post millions of dollars in extra collateral.The Office of Insurance...
Nov 9 2010 // Ireland unveiled a new corporate governance code for banks and insurers on Monday to bring ‘fresh blood’ into boardrooms and prevent a repeat of the excessive risk-taking that precipitated the country’s...
Nov 8 2010 // In what’s being called “a major victory for insurance agents and brokers,” the California Office of Administrative Law has approved Department of Insurance plans to repeal certain portions of its privacy...
Nov 5 2010 // Goldman Sachs Group Inc. no longer faces a bias lawsuit by a former vice president who said the Wall Street bank put her on a “mommy track” and fired her while she was on maternity leave.Judge Robert Patterson...
Nov 2 2010 // The Association of British Insurers has welcomed the publication of an independent report on the need for changes to the solicitors’ (attorneys’*) professional indemnity insurance market.The ABI noted that the...
Nov 1 2010 // Insurance agents who fail to keep up with ever-changing legislation, regulations, policies and forms are opening themselves up to costly insurance errors and omissions (E&O) claims, and even the loss of an...