All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 29 2007 // The leaders of a special Rhode Island House commission studying the effects of natural disasters on property insurance costs plan to introduce legislation next week on insurance practices connected to hurricane...
May 29 2007 // A federal judge has approved a class-action settlement between a chemical company and the residents of a southwestern Louisville, Kentucky neighborhood.Under the settlement approved by U.S. District Court Judge John...
May 25 2007 // United States Senators John Sununu, R-NH, and Tim Johnson, D-SD, reintroduced “The National Insurance Act of 2007,” legislation that aims to modernize insurance industry regulation by providing an optional...
May 25 2007 // Some are already calling the new provisions to the teen graduated drivers licensing law passed by the Illinois legislature as the toughest in the country.The measure, SB 172, passed by the Illinois legislature, addresses...
May 25 2007 // A Maricopa County, Ariz., Superior Court judge has dismissed a product liability lawsuit against Taser International Inc., which makes electronic control devices to stun people. The lawsuit involved John Gerdon who claimed...
May 24 2007 // Leaders of the North Carolina General Assembly say legal loopholes that allow speeders to avoid punishment should be changed immediately, including the practice of judges who allow high-speed offenders to keep their...
May 23 2007 // A judge whose $10.1 billion judgment against Philip Morris USA in a lawsuit over light cigarettes was thrown out on appeal is asking a court whether he can revive the case.Madison County Circuit Judge Nicholas Byron this...
May 23 2007 // A once high-flying asbestos litigation attorney was ready to plead guilty Monday to fraud involving thousands of clients, but a federal judge in Miami has rejected the deal and set a date for trial, saying he was unhappy...
May 23 2007 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale says he sees no conflict in his having been represented in a ballot dispute by Greg Copeland, an attorney who is a longtime lobbyist for the insurance industry.“Yes, he...
May 22 2007 // The U.S. House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a measure closing a loophole and blocking giant retailers like Wal-Mart and The Home Dept from owning industrial loan corporations, or ILCs.For ILCs already owned...
May 22 2007 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies is urging Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter to veto Senate Bill 256, legislation concerning uninsured and underinsured motorists. In a letter to the governor, NAMIC warned...
May 22 2007 // Judges in Delaware’s famed business court are keeping a close eye on legal issues cropping up amid the recent wave of private equity buyouts of public corporations.In recent rulings, Court of Chancery judges have...
May 22 2007 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland is flexing her regulatory muscle in an investigation of Medicare marketing that has uncovered misconduct by some insurance agents,The probe led to an appearance before a U.S....
May 21 2007 // For several years, directors and officers underwriters have viewed corporate insiders’ adoption of so-called “Rule 10b5-1 plans” as evidence of good corporate governance and as a positive underwriting...
May 21 2007 // The Milliman study shows that recently passed Florida legislation will mean that homeowners will pay less for property insurance. Motorists and small business owners will pay more if an average to large storm hits. The...
May 21 2007 // A Florida law enacted during a 2007 January special session provides immediate savings for homeowners by shifting potential payments for hurricane losses from the homeowners receiving the current policy benefits to future...
May 21 2007 // A federal judge has denied State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.’s request for a new trial in a Hurricane Katrina case that could cost the company more than $1.2 million.Judge L.T. Senter Jr. saw no reason to grant a...
May 21 2007 // For several years, directors and officers underwriters have viewed corporate insiders’ adoption of so-called “Rule 10b5-1 plans” as evidence of good corporate governance and as a positive underwriting...
May 21 2007 // An Oklahoma surgeon said he will not treat legislators who voted against a bill to curb malpractice insurance rates and suggested they go to Texas for surgical procedures.Unless it is an emergency, Dr. Peter S. Hedberg...
May 21 2007 // Rates going down “Consumers are clearly benefiting from what has turned into a very competitive insurance market. … When it seems like the price of everything else is going up, to hear insurance rates are going...