All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 18 2007 // Florida and Louisiana take different paths on insurance woesIndustry prefers government approach taken by Democrat Blanco over Republican Crist Florida and Louisiana are hurricane-prone states with similar property...
Jun 18 2007 // S.C. reforms workers’ comp fraud, injury reporting lawsLegislation gets tougher with cheaters and closes state’s Second Injury Fund Employers who lie about what their workers do to save money on workers’...
Jun 18 2007 // An insurance company lawyer argued to the Florida Supreme Court earlier this month that his client should not have to pay full policy limits for wind damage to a home destroyed mainly by flooding during Hurricane...
Jun 18 2007 // The Alabama Legislature adjourned after giving final approval to a key insurance measure that will increase the state’s auto liability minimum limits from 20/40/10 to 25/50/25.Legislators deferred to the 2008 session...
Jun 18 2007 // Slow death for coastal windstorm bill in last days of Texas sessionIn the waning days of the 2007 session of the Texas Legislature, marked by a tumultuous, unsuccessful struggle to oust the current Speaker of the House of...
Jun 18 2007 // It’s becoming a familiar song: the Federal Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) is once again due to expire on Dec. 31, 2007, and as of this writing, no long- or short-term successor program has been decided upon or...
Jun 15 2007 // A judge this week denied a defense motion to add more current and former American International Group Inc. officials to a lawsuit challenging payments that the insurance giant made to an outside firm headed by former AIG...
Jun 15 2007 // A divided Missouri Supreme Court ruled against the city of St. Louis on Tuesday in a fight over who should pay to clean up lead paint in homes.In a 4-3 unsigned opinion, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s...
Jun 14 2007 // Property/ casualty insurers are contending that the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation is “off the mark” in developing rules implementing a law passed in 2003 addressing insurers’ use of credit...
Jun 13 2007 // Legal documents in the numerous lawsuits filed against a former Putnam County General Hospital osteopath have been placed off limits by a West Virginia judge overseeing the cases.Putnam County Circuit Judge O.C. Spaulding...
Jun 13 2007 // Steve White has been named director of the Bureau of Company Examination, Regulation and Guaranty (BERG) in the Delaware Department of Insurance, Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn announced.A 13-year employee of the...
Jun 12 2007 // Employers who lie about what their workers do to save money on insurance premiums would face fines and prison time under an agreement South Carolina legislators reached to overhaul the state’s workers’...
Jun 12 2007 // Florida police, firefighters, paramedics and other first responders would have an easier time becoming eligible for workers compensation benefits, and would get a better package of benefits under legislation Gov. Charlie...
Jun 12 2007 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) and the Association of Fire and Casualty Companies in Texas (AFACT) will present the 15th Annual 2007 Mid-Year Property & Casualty Insurance Symposium on July 12, in Austin,...
Jun 12 2007 // The FBI and the Internal Revenue Service are investigating hefty insurance payments made to a Pennsylvania Superior Court judge.Judge Michael Joyce received $440,000 in insurance money in 2002 for injuries he said he...
Jun 11 2007 // Lawmakers using state-issued vehicles filed auto insurance claims at a far higher rate than the general public, costing California taxpayers nearly $90,000 the past two years, according to records obtained by The...
Jun 11 2007 // A judge with the New Mexico Workers’ Compensation Administration has been placed on paid leave while the agency investigates an allegation that he made an inappropriate sexual proposal to an injured worker while...
Jun 11 2007 // Florida and Louisiana are hurricane-prone states with similar property insurance problems, but their governors are taking wildly different approaches to fixing the insurance headaches.Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, a...
Jun 11 2007 // The judge in New Orleans who unsealed a federal whistle-blower case accusing insurance companies of overbilling the National Flood Insurance Program says the U.S. Department of Justice should get involved or explain why...
Jun 8 2007 // With the cautious support of North Carolina’s tobacco manufacturers, a House committee approved a bill Tuesday that would require the companies to make and sell cigarettes that burn out if left unattended.The...