All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 23 2009 // Former Kentucky lawmaker Steve Nunn has entered a not guilty plea for his client in a Lexington courtroom on a murder charge stemming from the shooting death of Nunn’s ex-fiancee.Nunn appeared glum-looking last week...
Nov 22 2009 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has approved rates hikes for about 330,000 of Citizens Property Insurance Corp.’s so-called high-risk coastal property accounts. The statewide average increases include a...
Nov 20 2009 // Until this year, health care was a minor blip on the radar of insurance agents’ policy efforts in D.C. But with a major reform bill imminent, key trade groups are devoting nearly all of their time to try and tweak...
Nov 19 2009 // XL Capital Ltd. announced that it has received approval from the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) to start preparation work to set up a P/C company in the country.Following the approval, XL has a year to...
Nov 19 2009 // Arizona legislators began a special session Tuesday mostly aimed at reducing the state’s $2 billion budget shortfall but also to resolve issues related to foreclosures and research funding.The House and Senate...
Nov 19 2009 // Gov. Charlie Crist has urged Florida lawmakers to ban texting while driving. Crist this week asked Julie Jones, executive director of the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, to include such a measure in her...
Nov 19 2009 // A federal judge in Louisiana has ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ failure to properly maintain and operate the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet MRGO was a substantial cause for the flooding of part of the...
Nov 18 2009 // Chubb Group recently co-hosted a seminar near Shanghai, which focused on the “increasing number of Chinese exports exposed to product liability claims and litigation in the United States and Europe.” As a...
Nov 18 2009 // In an open letter addressed to Barney Frank, the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services, the largest U.S. insurance trade associations expressed their concerns over the recently passed...
Nov 18 2009 // Officials handling the multibillion dollar bailout of insurance giant America International Group Inc. mismanaged an initial rescue attempt and may have overpaid other banks to wind down AIG’s business relationships,...
Nov 17 2009 // A federal judge has denied a request by Cintas Corp. for summary judgment in a 2007 wrongful death lawsuit in Tulsa, Okla., a ruling that paves the way for a jury to hear the case against the nation’s largest uniform...
Nov 16 2009 // Credit rating agencies, accused of assigning top ratings to shoddy securities, would be exposed to greater liability under a wide-ranging financial services reform bill released by a leading U.S. senator. The draft bill...
Nov 15 2009 // The New York Insurance Department has signed a cooperation agreement with its counterpart in El Salvador, the latest in a string of similar agreements with insurance regulators in foreign countries. The agreement calls for...
Nov 15 2009 // A Connecticut judge has ruled that the insurance company for a former Fairfield lawyer who killed his neighbor in 2006 won’t be responsible for any damages that could be awarded in a lawsuit filed by the...
Nov 15 2009 // New Yorkers: Put the BlackBerry away if you’re behind the wheel.New York’s law against texting-while-driving went into effect this month. The new law forbids the use of mobile devices for reading, typing and...
Nov 15 2009 // The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit has upheld Arkansas district court decisions in a products liability case against pharmaceutical companies that are the makers of hormone therapy drugs that, combined, have...
Nov 15 2009 // Alan Ring joined National Contractors Insurance Co. Inc. (NCIC), a risk retention group, headquartered in Big Fork, Mont., as director of sales and marketing.Prior to joining NCIC, Ring was a regional manager for...
Nov 15 2009 // Healthy Action“The Affordable Health Care for America Act is a piece of legislation that will provide stability and security for Americans who have insurance; quality, affordable options for those who don’t;...
Nov 13 2009 // IBA West’s legislative advocate in Sacramento, John Norwood, was named the “most trustworthy” lobbyist in the California capitol by a survey of Legislators. The survey was conducted by Capitol Weekly, a...
Nov 11 2009 // Michigan voters could decide on a proposal that supporters say would reduce automobile, home and business insurance premiums by 20 percent, if the proposal qualifies for the 2010 statewide ballot.The form of a legislative...