All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 2 2009 // As of Jan. 1, you can get slapped with a $90 fine if you use a hand-held cell phone while driving in Oregon. Will that be enough to encourage motorists to keep their full attention on the road? And how well can the law be...
Nov 2 2009 // Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance Monica J. Lindeen has been appointed to the North American Securities Administrators Association’s (NASAA) Federal Legislation Committee, a key committee as Congress...
Nov 1 2009 // An East Tennessee teenager’s October death in an all terrain vehicle accident brought the state’s 2009 death toll in ATV wrecks to eight, and a national consumer safety spokeswoman said the national death toll...
Nov 1 2009 // A California assemblyman said he’ll try a third time to get strict measures on when health insurance companies can cancel policies approved into law.Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill backed by Assemblyman...
Nov 1 2009 // Californians will soon be able to purchase pay-as-you-drive automobile insurance, as the final regulations have been approved.The regulations regarding pay-as-you-drive, which was originally proposed by state Insurance...
Nov 1 2009 // If there is one thing that Colorado’s quasi-public workers compensation provider, Pinnacol Assurance, has not been accused of being, it is being timid.When the state government tried early this year to tap the...
Nov 1 2009 // New legislation has often brought new exposures to employers. This is also true of litigation. As 2009 proceeds, there is a “double whammy” for employers from both new legislation as well as rising employee...
Oct 30 2009 // The Bermuda Monetary Authority has reacted favorably to recommendations listed in the recently published “Foot Report,” which examines the role of offshore British financial centers, and their relation to the...
Oct 30 2009 // The Wisconsin Supreme Court adopted rules Wednesday allowing judges to hear cases involving their biggest campaign contributors, siding with business interests and rejecting calls for reform.Voting 4-3, the court approved...
Oct 30 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...
Oct 30 2009 // California’s Department of Industrial Relations has proposed an update to regulations for the Workers’ Compensation Information System. The update is part of the Division of Workers’ Compensation’s...
Oct 28 2009 // A federal judge in Texas has been assigned to preside over an Alabama attorney’s lawsuit that alleges imprisoned attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs and several others conspired to defraud him of millions...
Oct 28 2009 // The Obama administration made gains Tuesday in its push for U.S. financial reform, unveiling a landmark bill to tackle systemic risk in the economy and winning congressional committee approval for a measure to expose hedge...
Oct 28 2009 // A Minnesota state court judge has dismissed a batch of lawsuits against Medtronic Inc. stemming from the October 2007 recall of the medical device maker’s Sprint Fidelis defibrillator leads.Minnesota District Court...
Oct 28 2009 // Attorney Maria Sheffield has become the latest candidate to enter the Republican primary to be the next insurance commissioner in Georgia. She is one of several candidates hoping to succeed current Insurance Commissioner...
Oct 28 2009 // The organization of state insurance commissioners welcomed 13 interns from Azerbaijan, China, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Zambia to the U.S. this week.The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has...
Oct 28 2009 // Credit rating agencies would be more tightly regulated and more exposed to lawsuits under legislation approved Wednesday by the U.S. House Financial Services Committee.In another procedural step forward for the Obama...
Oct 28 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...
Oct 26 2009 // Democratic lawmakers are seeking to stir up competition by stripping health insurers of their protection from certain federal antitrust laws, although experts shrug off the effort as largely symbolic.Speaker Nancy Pelosi...
Oct 26 2009 // More than a dozen organizations and state Sen. Ben Nesselhuf of Vermillion have formed Safe and Sound South Dakota, a coalition they say is designed to promote traffic safety legislation.In a release, the coalition said...