All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 21 2010 // West Virginia may be on the path to helping municipalities pay for debris removal of abandoned buildings with insurance payments in a way that insurers can live with.The issue of how to pay for the cleanup has irked...
Jan 21 2010 // A lawmaker said he may propose increasing taxes on businesses to help Arkansas pay off about $220 million it owes the federal government for unemployment insurance benefits.Sen. Larry Teague of Nashville said he’s...
Jan 21 2010 // Hopes for stronger world action in 2010 to curb climate change have dimmed after the U.S. Democrats lost a key Senate seat to a Republican opposed to capping emissions, experts said Wednesday.The election of Republican...
Jan 20 2010 // Federal Reserve officials Tuesday launched a vigorous defense of their dealings with American International Group, calling for a congressional audit and denying any inappropriate action with respect to payments the...
Jan 20 2010 // Zenith National Insurance Corp. plans to release fourth quarter and year end 2009 financial results on Jan. 28, 2010 at the end of its business day.Also, the Woodland Hills, Calif.-based company announced that Judge Pamela...
Jan 19 2010 // Insurance agents will be required to notify the state if they have been disciplined by any non-governmental regulatory agency under a new law signed yesterday. The new law requires insurance producers licensed in New...
Jan 19 2010 // Missouri’s top judges questioned Jan. 14 whether a 2005 law limiting medical malpractice lawsuits is being wrongly applied to people retroactively and is discriminating against the spouses of those injured.Attorneys...
Jan 19 2010 // Did the health insurance industry, among others, have unfair influence on California lawmakers, after it gave family members gifts? That’s the question voters and the state Fair Political Practices Commission might...
Jan 19 2010 // Each year brings new laws and regulations for employers, and 2010 is no exception. To help employers stay informed about regulations and issues impacting workers’ compensation insurance, the California State...
Jan 15 2010 // The recent recession and record unemployment rates have increased pressure on the workers’ compensation insurance system to help return injured employees back to work while effectively managing costs.That was one of...
Jan 14 2010 // Wall Street’s chiefs acknowledged taking on “too much risk” and having “choked” on their own cooking, but stopped short of an apology as they sparred with a commission looking into the...
Jan 13 2010 // For more than a decade, Connecticut lawmakers have considered and dismissed the idea of requiring seat belts on school buses that carry nearly 500,000 children each day.But a deadly weekend crash in Hartford has given the...
Jan 13 2010 // Reforming Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation system will be among state Senate Republicans’ top legislative goals for 2010.Republicans, who enjoy a majority in the Oklahoma Senate, are led by Senate...
Jan 13 2010 // Insurance agents, a former insurance commissioner and a consumer advocate have sounded an alarm about the property insurance marketplace in Florida, a market that has seen four insurers get into financial trouble in the...
Jan 11 2010 // Elizabeth “Beth” Sammis has been appointed Interim Maryland Insurance Commissioner, overseeing the regulation of Maryland’s $26 billion insurance industry.Sammis has served as deputy commissioner for the...
Jan 10 2010 // New York regulators are aggressively pursuing plans for a reincarnation of the New York Insurance Exchange and expect to finish assembling a “working group” of industry insiders within the next two months who...
Jan 10 2010 // Few Nebraska lawmakers participating in an Associated Press survey say they support legislation making liquor license holders liable for serving intoxicated customers who leave their establishments and hurt themselves or...
Jan 8 2010 // Health insurance lobbyists are pushing lawmakers to eliminate caps on profits and other administrative spending and delay a hefty, industry-wide tax under the massive healthcare reform legislation being finalized in...
Jan 8 2010 // State Rep. Ken Guin says Alabama needs to ban people from text messaging while driving a motor vehicle, and a recent experience with a driver swerving “all over the road” is a reason why.“I started to...
Jan 8 2010 // Two prominent U.S. lawmakers Friday called for U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to testify to help determine if the New York Federal Reserve Bank improperly influenced insurer AIG to withhold information on its...