All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 1 2008 // Shards of broken glass outside the basement window of 31 Vine Street (Brockton, Mass.) hint at the destruction inside the three-story home.Thieves smashed the window to break in and then gutted the property for its copper...
Mar 31 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.The bill could erase...
Mar 31 2008 // The chairman of the Judiciary Committee in the Vermont House says he’d like lawmakers to consider lowering the threshold at which a driver is drunk behind the wheel from a blood-alcohol content of .08 percent to a...
Mar 31 2008 // Insurance industry groups are lining up quickly with responses to the Bush administration’s proposed overhaul of the way the government regulates the nation’s financial services industries, including...
Mar 31 2008 // The Mississippi Supreme Court suspended a prominent judge last week who is being investigated for his role in a dispute over fees involving attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs.The court sided with the Mississippi...
Mar 31 2008 // The Bush administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of the way the government regulates the nation’s financial services industry from banks and securities firms to mortgage brokers and insurance companies.The...
Mar 31 2008 // The ACE Group of Companies announced that Huatai Insurance Company of China Limited, an ACE Group strategic partner, has received approval from the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) to become one of the first...
Mar 28 2008 // A former state senator has been confirmed to be a judge at the Department of Industrial Accidents, despite questions about her qualifications and concern about a political account she plans to maintain on the bench.The...
Mar 28 2008 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has announced it has decided not to file for a mid-year pure premium rate change. Accepting a recommendation made by the WCIRB Actuarial Committee, the...
Mar 28 2008 // Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., on Friday called for a rethinking of the U.S. financial regulatory system, perhaps moving toward a single regulator, following the collapse this month of Bear Stearns Cos.In an opinion...
Mar 26 2008 // In a ceremony attended by Ohio’s physician leaders, Governor Ted Strickland today signed House Bill 125, some refer to as the most sweeping physician-insurance industry contract reform bills in the country, into...
Mar 26 2008 // U.S. capital markets again lost ground against global competitors last year, highlighting the need to streamline regulation and crack down on excessive securities litigation, industry experts said Wednesday.The United...
Mar 25 2008 // The subprime 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...
Mar 24 2008 // Mississippi attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs used a mix of bare-knuckle tactics and country-lawyer charm to extract billion-dollar settlements from cigarette makers, asbestos companies and other big...
Mar 24 2008 // Something’s Fishy“It certainly has had some effect.” —Jud Reis, spokesman for Gloucester, Mass.-based fish-seller, Gorton’s, speaking on the business impact of a voluntary recall made by the...
Mar 24 2008 // Indiana recently became one of the first states in the country to pass legislation prohibiting the practice of municipalities charging fees for accident response runs, when Senate Enrolled Act 81 was sent to Indiana...
Mar 24 2008 // New York lawmakers have decided once is not enough — at least when it comes to telling homeowners that floods will not be covered by a standard homeowners policy.Under legislation signed by former Gov. Eliot Spitzer,...
Mar 24 2008 // A bill to crack down on dangerous consumer products was approved by the U.S. Senate in early March after a year of recalls of millions of lead-tainted toys and other hazardous products, many made in China.The bill would...
Mar 24 2008 // A commission created after a Lake Tahoe blaze destroyed more than 250 California homes voted unanimously to seek state and federal emergency declarations to combat what it says is an imminent threat of catastrophic...
Mar 24 2008 // Since last August, the Texas Supreme Court has issued a half dozen major insurance cases, many on issues pending for years. The Court recently heard argument in key cases involving the insurability of punitive damages in...