All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 10 2008 // More than two decades after the country established a uniform drinking age of 21, a nascent movement is afoot to allow 18- to 20-year-olds to legally buy alcohol under some circumstances.Proponents say the higher age...
Mar 10 2008 // The Iowa Supreme Court sent two medical malpractice lawsuits back to district court after offering a new opinion on how the statute of limitations can be interpreted.The decision, which affects a breast cancer patient and...
Mar 10 2008 // The University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business’ latest American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) shows that property and casualty insurers continue to rank above average in customer service compared to...
Mar 10 2008 // The Alabama House has approved legislation that would bring Alabama in line with about half the South by raising the minimum amount of auto liability insurance that motorists must buy.The House voted 82-0 for legislation...
Mar 10 2008 // Property insurance wasn’t supposed to be the big issue in the 2008 Florida Legislature. To the chagrin of many lawmakers, it just won’t go away.Legislators thought they’d largely taken care of the issue...
Mar 10 2008 // The University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business’ latest American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) shows that property and casualty insurers continue to rank above average in customer service compared to...
Mar 10 2008 // The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle has upheld an Alaskan district court ruling that a primary insurance carrier can cancel a marine vessel’s pollution insurance policy on the basis that the insured...
Mar 10 2008 // The members of the California Insurance Wholesalers Association (CIWA) play a vital role in the state’s insurance market. To find out how wholesalers are faring in California’s increasingly soft market,...
Mar 10 2008 // Insurance professionals gathered in the oak-paneled Old Library of Lloyd’s of London this past December to learn more about a risk that the institution’s 17th century founders could never have dreamed of —...
Mar 7 2008 // A bill to crack down on dangerous consumer products was approved by the U.S. Senate Thursday after a year of recalls of millions of lead-tainted toys and other hazardous products, many made in China.The bill would beef up...
Mar 7 2008 // Connecticut lawmakers are hoping a bill aimed at tightening teen driving laws will clear its first legislative hurdle today.That’s when a vote in the Transportation Committee is scheduled. The bill – a...
Mar 7 2008 // A state judge in Louisiana has refused to remove Jefferson Parish and its president from a lawsuit filed by parish residents over flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina.At issue in the lawsuit is the decision to evacuate...
Mar 6 2008 // Legislation that requires daycare centers to carry liability insurance has received bipartisan support in an Oklahoma House of Representatives committee.The House Human Services Committee voted 15-0 for the legislation...
Mar 6 2008 // The Indiana General Assembly recently passed a ban on accident response fees and Washington-based the American Insurance Association urged Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) to sign the bill.“A fundamental purpose of government,...
Mar 6 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 this week by Gov. Eliot...
Mar 6 2008 // A federal judge has upheld a ruling by State Insurance Commissioner John Morrison prohibiting “discretionary clauses” in group health and disability insurance policies in Montana.The ruling by U.S. District...
Mar 5 2008 // The National Conference of Insurance Legislators’ Executive Committee unanimously adopted a widely supported Resolution in Support of the National Insurance Producer Registry (NIPR) and urged all states to fully...
Mar 4 2008 // The Kansas Senate unanimously approved a flex rating bill, SB 560, supported the insurance industry. The bill now heads to the House.Based on the National Conference of Insurance Legislators’ (NCOIL) Flex-Rating...
Mar 4 2008 // The convening of the Florida Legislature this week will present an opportunity for legislators to reconsider some of the problematic measures passed in 2007, according to the American Insurance Association.“From a...
Mar 4 2008 // A state lawmaker from New Orleans has filed three bills that could make state holidays out of the anniversaries of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which devastated the Louisiana coast in 2005.The bills by Rep. Juan LaFonta,...