All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 4 2008 // The financial and housing crises, along with a prolonged soft market, are converging to create a highly challenging environment for the U.S. insurance industry in 2009, says an industry think tank.These factors will force...
Dec 4 2008 // Oklahoma State Rep. Joe Dorman plans to renew his fight to ensure the state funds disaster recovery efforts this year and in the future, the Oklahoma House of Representatives reported.Dorman said he will file legislation...
Dec 3 2008 // Property/casualty insurers are urging North Carolina officials to impose surcharges on policies in the state’s residual market property insurer, the Beach Plan, and take other financing and mitigation steps to...
Dec 3 2008 // The New York State Insurance Department has signed an agreement with its counterpart in France that calls for increased cooperation and consultation between the two regulatory bodies.The agreement is similar to agreements...
Dec 2 2008 // West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin may ask the Legislature next year to end West Virginia’s practice of electing its judiciary along partisan political lines, at least for the state’s circuit court judges.Manchin...
Nov 30 2008 // It’s a select community: only 11 state insurance commissioners are elected rather than appointed. Wayne Goodwin is now one of the 11. He won the Nov. 4 election to be North Carolina’s regulator, succeeding Jim...
Nov 30 2008 // With incoming President-elect Barack Obama and major increases in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, the Democrats will now control both chambers of Congress and the White House. The changing of the...
Nov 30 2008 // With incoming President-elect Barack Obama and major increases in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, the Democrats will now control both chambers of Congress and the White House. The changing of the...
Nov 30 2008 // A Florida Supreme Court ruling has resulted in a request to raise workers compensation rates by 8.9 percent.The National Council on Compensation Insurance filed the request, citing last month’s ruling in which...
Nov 30 2008 // On Nov. 4, Democrat Wayne Goodwin won election as North Carolina Insurance Commissioner with 52 percent of the vote, succeeding 24-year veteran Jim Long. Goodwin campaigned on his experience. He is a former four-term...
Nov 30 2008 // With incoming President-elect Barack Obama and major increases in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, the Democrats will now control both chambers of Congress and the White House. The changing of the...
Nov 30 2008 // The changing character of environmental regulation fits any definition of a moving target. Since the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was launched on a wave of environmental consciousness in the early 1970s, the...
Nov 30 2008 // Pushed by the global economic crisis, the United States is expected to embrace federal regulation of the insurance industry as early as 2009, according to some financial and insurance executives.Federal regulation —...
Nov 30 2008 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas Sullivan considers himself something of an insider when it comes to the insurance industry – after all, he spent 20 years at The Hartford. And maybe it’s because he...
Nov 30 2008 // A retired Pennsylvania appellate judge was convicted of mail fraud and money laundering after prosecutors said he lied about neck and back injuries in a fender bender to collect $440,000 from two insurance companies.Former...
Nov 25 2008 // Overhauls of U.S. market supervision and European policy coordination are needed to plug regulatory gaps highlighted by the market crisis, the OECD said in its latest economic outlook.Initially billed as a first step to...
Nov 25 2008 // The West Virginia Supreme Court says a man who found a piece of scalpel in his thumb can’t press his claim because he waited too long to file his lawsuit.In a 4-1 ruling, the high court said Paul and Melissa Forshey...
Nov 24 2008 // The Iowa Supreme Court issued a ruling on Nov. 21 that sends the case of a woman who sued her doctors for failing to diagnose breast cancer back to a lower court for more proceedings.In her lawsuit filed in Scott County...
Nov 24 2008 // Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is expected to sign a bill requiring insurers to cover autism treatment up to $36,000 a year until a patient turns 21.An estimated 4,500 Illinois families would benefit from the coverage....
Nov 24 2008 // As the price of fuel increased in recent months, Arizona authorities are wondering about hte potential toxicity of homemade biodiesel.Phoenix fire officials say it’s part of a trend of area residents using chemicals...