All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 7 2008 // America is in the midst of a significant financial crisis. A meltdown in the subprime mortgage sector and the resulting credit crunch are threatening to drag down our economy.We applaud the aggressive steps taken by the...
Apr 7 2008 // The mortgage crisis is prompting some people to take another look at New Hampshire’s consumer protection law.Six years ago, the Legislature changed the law to exempt the banking, insurance, public utilities and...
Apr 7 2008 // Editor’s Note: The following letter was sent to the president of American Insurance Association Gov. Marc Racicot.I read with interest your letter and news release calling for state insurance regulators to reconsider...
Apr 7 2008 // In the face of growing economic turmoil the Bush administration is calling for an overhaul of system of regulating the nation’s financial services industries — including insurance. The reform proposal announced...
Apr 7 2008 // America is in the midst of a significant financial crisis. A meltdown in the subprime mortgage sector and the resulting credit crunch are threatening to drag down our economy.We applaud the aggressive steps taken by the...
Apr 7 2008 // In the face of growing economic turmoil the Bush administration is calling for an overhaul of system of regulating the nation’s financial services industries — including insurance. The reform proposal announced...
Apr 7 2008 // South Louisiana lawmakers are pushing to give some homeowners a 10 percent break on their property insurance, though the legislation faces firm opposition from state Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon.House Bill 213 could...
Apr 7 2008 // America is in the midst of a significant financial crisis. A meltdown in the subprime mortgage sector and the resulting credit crunch are threatening to drag down our economy.We applaud the aggressive steps taken by the...
Apr 7 2008 // America is in the midst of a significant financial crisis. A meltdown in the subprime mortgage sector and the resulting credit crunch are threatening to drag down our economy.We applaud the aggressive steps taken by the...
Apr 7 2008 // Insurance industry groups lined up quickly with responses to the Bush administration’s proposed overhaul of the way the government regulates the nation’s financial services industries, including insurance.The...
Apr 4 2008 // The Republican candidate for Montana state auditor and insurance commissioner is criticizing plans by the Bush Administration for the federal government to take over regulation of the insurance industry.Duane Grimes says...
Apr 4 2008 // Business lobbyists from the United States will descend on the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva next week to push for favorable terms in a new trade deal, a source familiar with the visits said on Friday.The visits...
Apr 4 2008 // Most high schoolers will soon be barred from operating thrill rides in Kentucky after a grisly accident last year severed the feet of a girl at a Louisville amusement park.The state Senate voted 37-0 on Tuesday night for...
Apr 4 2008 // Police officers in Texas will have one less blank to fill out while investigating traffic accidents this year, the Texas Committee on Insurance Fraud reported. The form will no longer contain phone numbers for crash...
Apr 4 2008 // Tennessee drivers scored a major legislative victory with the passage of a new law that stops cities from imposing hidden taxes on motorists, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America.The...
Apr 4 2008 // The First District Court of Appeals of Florida ruled today that a suspension of Allstate Insurance Company’s certificates of authority to transact new insurance business in Florida is back in effect.Today’s...
Apr 3 2008 // A proposal to lower the blood alcohol content required for a person to be guilty of extreme drunken driving is among several impaired driving bills slowly moving in the Tennessee Legislature.The measure sponsored by Sen....
Apr 2 2008 // Marsh issued a warning to UK companies from its London office that their “subsidiaries and affiliates of Japanese firms,” face some new risks in association with “new Japanese legislation relating to...
Apr 1 2008 // The Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) has launched a new web site that provides an unprecedented level of detail about Bermuda’s regulatory standards online.The BMA stated that the new site, which went live today,...
Apr 1 2008 // A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Sherwin-Williams Co. that sought to keep the city from suing the company to help pay for the cleanup of properties contaminated with lead paint.Sherwin-Williams failed to prove...