All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 7 2009 // A legislative task force has begun a study on how best to privatize CompSource Oklahoma, the agency that provides workers’ compensation insurance in the state.Members of a nine-member task force convened Aug 6. The...
Aug 5 2009 // A special committee of Colorado lawmakers is evaluating Pinnacol Assurance, to examine what role the state should have in managing the quasi-governmental workers’ compensation insurer’s business.Ken Ross,...
Aug 5 2009 // Skepticism over the financial condition of insurance companies is healthy and financially strong insurers stand to gain over weaker competitors in today’s market, an executive for a major property/casualty insurer...
Aug 5 2009 // The North Carolina Senate Commerce Committee today passed legislation (HB 1305) to rescue the state’s underfunded coastal insurer, the Beach Plan.The bill, which already passed the House, will now bypass the finance...
Aug 4 2009 // The California Department of Insurance has released a new draft of the Pay-As-You-Drive (PAYD) regulations, after receiving dozens of comments from consumer groups, the insurance industry and other invested parties, it...
Aug 3 2009 // A trade group for insurance companies says Delaware lawmakers will have a “full plate” of legislative insurance issues when they reconvene next year.Among the big issues, according to the Property Casualty...
Aug 3 2009 // California’s Department of Industrial Relations’ (DIR) Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) has filed a proposal with the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board to amend the...
Aug 3 2009 // After months of trying, Florida state officials and State Farm Florida have not been able to agree on the insurer’s plan for withdrawing from the state, so steps have been taken to have an administrative law judge...
Aug 3 2009 // Don’t be alarmed, but there are convicted criminals roaming around the country acting as insurance producers. They could be robbers, forgers, possibly even rapists.They got their producer licenses in states that did...
Jul 31 2009 // The head of Colorado’s state-chartered workers’ compensation insurance fund says the company wants to go private.Ken Ross, president and chief executive of Pinnacol Assurance, told The Denver Post editorial...
Jul 31 2009 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has lost a legal fight with the state’s legislative auditor and said that he’ll give auditors “hundreds of thousands” of documents they demanded from his...
Jul 31 2009 // A New Hampshire judge has rejected the state’s claim on a $110 million surplus in a fund that underwrites malpractice insurance.The state counted on $65 million of the money to help balance the budget in the fiscal...
Jul 30 2009 // States would be required to ban driving while texting or face the loss of highway funds under legislation being pushed by a group of Democratic senators.Aimed at reducing driver distraction and highway deaths and injuries,...
Jul 30 2009 // During the recently completed 81st Legislative Session, the Texas legislature adopted the most significant reforms to the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) since 1997 with the passage of House Bill 4409 (HB...
Jul 29 2009 // A Michigan Supreme Court justice’s decision not to recuse herself from a case that pertains to her husband’s profession contradicts the spirit of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on when judges should step...
Jul 28 2009 // The New York State Insurance Department has signed a cooperation agreement with regulators in China calling for closer cooperation between the two agencies in overseeing insurance issues.Acting Superintendent Kermitt...
Jul 28 2009 // A large U.S. consumer group urged Congress Tuesday to clamp down on insurers’ risky practices after last year’s near collapse of AIG due to its foray into exotic derivative instruments.The Consumer Federation...
Jul 28 2009 // A state lawmaker is urging Huntington to scrap an ordinance that has prompted a court challenge to West Virginia’s experiment with home rule.Delegate Jim Morgan, a Cabell County Democrat, wants the city to withdraw a...
Jul 27 2009 // Congress must consider radical reforms to improve the accountability and reliability of credit rating agencies like Moody’s Corp. and McGraw-Hill Cos. Inc.’s Standard & Poor’s, a top U.S. lawmaker...
Jul 24 2009 // Oklahoma can’t pursue monetary damages in its environmental lawsuit against a dozen Arkansas poultry companies because it didn’t name the Cherokee Nation as a plaintiff, a federal judge ruled in a major blow to...