All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 12 2010 // A growing number of Americans, nearly half the country, think global warming worries are exaggerated and more people doubt that scientific warnings of severe environmental fallout will ever occur, according to a new Gallup...
Mar 12 2010 // South Carolina motorists who are caught sending or reading text messages while they drive would be fined $25 under legislation that won key House approval this week.With a 98-18 vote, the House gave second reading to a...
Mar 12 2010 // Lawmakers hope a new bill will blunt business groups’ criticism of West Virginia’s court system.The Senate voted unanimously Wednesday to allow the state Supreme Court to create special business courts in...
Mar 11 2010 // With the prospects for a controversial rate deregulation bill dimmed by Gov. Charlie Crist’s threat of a veto, the insurance industry is betting on a new wide-ranging insurance proposal to bring some reform to...
Mar 11 2010 // She told a health insurance industry group that costs and premiums would rise to unsustainable levels and more Americans and businesses would drop coverage if the overhaul of the $2.5 trillion healthcare system were...
Mar 11 2010 // Senator Christopher Dodd said Thursday that he will present on Monday his own version of a financial reform bill after compromise talks with Senate Republicans broke down.Dodd, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee,...
Mar 10 2010 // Two House subcommittees have scheduled a joint hearing today on ways to address homeowners insurance costs in disaster-prone communities, an issue that has some environmentalists, taxpayer groups and insurers standing...
Mar 10 2010 // New Jersey judge has upheld a new law that requires drivers younger than 21 to display identifying decals on their vehicle license plates.State Superior Court Judge Robert Brennan dismissed a lawsuit brought by Gregg...
Mar 9 2010 // The Supreme Court said Monday that it would decide whether a federal law protects vaccine manufacturers from lawsuits in state court seeking damages for alleged design defects.The high court agreed to hear a Pennsylvania...
Mar 9 2010 // State lawmakers appear ready to increase the independence of West Virginia’s local governments, and they aren’t waiting on results from an ongoing experiment on the subject.The Senate is expected to take up a...
Mar 9 2010 // Consumers in North Carolina were able to recover more than $9 million from insurance companies in 2009 with the assistance of the state insurance department. Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin said the recovery came from...
Mar 8 2010 // The California Department of Insurance is considering proposing new regulations governing standards and training for estimating replacement value on homeowners’ insurance. Among the ideas that was floated at a recent...
Mar 8 2010 // Utah schools would be sized up to see how they would fare in the event of a major earthquake under a bill passed by the state House.The House, on a 50-18 vote, sent House Bill 72 to the Senate for consideration in the...
Mar 7 2010 // Just when producers thought it was safe, mandatory compensation disclosure has reared its ugly head again.In a move that has its origins in the Spitzer days, New York regulators are mandating that insurance agents and...
Mar 7 2010 // The Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund needs $710 million to continue to pay claims still coming in from 2005’s Hurricane Wilma but it is going to have to wait to assess policyholders to get those funds.The Florida...
Mar 7 2010 // Tallahassee Kaleidoscope“It’s like a kaleidoscope. You think you see (the solution) one minute and the next minute it’s different.” —Rep. Bill Proctor, a St. Augustine Republican, speaking on the...
Mar 7 2010 // The nation’s largest insurance brokers have received the go-ahead to begin accepting contingent commissions again – but two of them say they won’t do it.Officials in New York, Illinois and Connecticut...
Mar 5 2010 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has published updated assumptions for assessing European insurance hybrid capital instruments (see “Assumptions: Implications Of Solvency II Proposals For Our European...
Mar 5 2010 // A Florida House committee wants to extinguish a proposed rule that would require fire sprinklers in many newly constructed homes. The House Governmental Affairs Policy Committee voted unanimously Wednesday for a bill that...
Mar 5 2010 // The Washington State Senate has approved a flood insurance bill that would allow the insurance commissioner to create a market assistance plan and, if necessary, a joint underwriting association if the flood insurance...