All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 26 2007 // The Colorado House Business Affairs and Labor Committee has approved two workers’ compensation bills: one affecting employee’s choice of physician and another affecting firefighters.House Bill 1176 would change...
Mar 23 2007 // A recent San Diego Superior Court ruling serves as a potential warning to legal malpractice insurers to review policy language to ensure their claims made policies can’t be more broadly construed as occurrence...
Mar 23 2007 // House Democrats called for better inspections and tougher standards for bus operators this week after the recent crash in Atlanta that left five college baseball players dead.In a House hearing that highlighted partisan...
Mar 23 2007 // A federal judge in Tulsa, Okla., has ordered a new trial in a lawsuit against Ford Motor Co., finding improper conduct by a plaintiff’s attorney and vacating a $15 million jury award to a couple whose son was killed...
Mar 22 2007 // Nevada State Sen. Bob Coffin says he’s working on a proposal to reduce a $6 billion unfunded liability of Nevada’s public employees retirement system by setting a mandatory minimum retirement age similar to...
Mar 22 2007 // In an address to the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) at its Annual Insurance Sector Conference (AISC), Willis Chairman and CEO Joe Plumeri strongly embraced the financial regulator’s announcement that...
Mar 22 2007 // The board that oversees Massachusetts’ landmark health insurance law voted this week to delay key elements of the plan by a year and a half to give residents and businesses a chance to ramp up their health care...
Mar 21 2007 // One of the toughest decisions a mother can face is between caring for a new infant and returning to work.The first few months of life are a critical bonding time between mother and child; however, with few companies...
Mar 21 2007 // In an interim report the UK’s Financial Services Authority acknowledged that “consumer experiences and risk of detriment vary substantially across the various markets for general insurance products.”...
Mar 20 2007 // Attorneys for a group of homeowners said they will continue the fight after a federal judge dismissed their lawsuits charging some of the nation’s largest insurers with discriminating against black neighborhoods.U.S...
Mar 20 2007 // The Michigan Chamber of Commerce and the Insurance Institute of Michigan, are urging a no vote in the Senate in response to recent passage of legislation that would make it easier to sue for non-economic damages under the...
Mar 20 2007 // Money talks and $4 trillion talks very loudly. So loud in fact that a number of institutional investors, who manage a total of $4 trillion in assets, hope to get the attention of U.S. lawmakers. Their goal is to convince...
Mar 20 2007 // Families like the Fretwells seem to be forgotten in the annual turf war between doctors and lawyers in Georgia’s Capitol over who should be protected from malpractice lawsuits.Like others, Rodney and Sherry Fretwell...
Mar 20 2007 // The success of politicians in economically hard-pressed areas of southeastern Oklahoma has been tied to “bringing home the bacon,” a euphemism for how many government dollars can be obtained for local...
Mar 20 2007 // The New Mexico legislature has passed a bill allowing consumers to place a security freeze on access to their credit report.Just before the legislative session ended, Senate Bill 165 passed, allowing at the request of the...
Mar 19 2007 // 18 years ago an Irish insurance conference probably would have consisted of a broker and an underwriter from Dublin having a pint of Guinness in a pub (most likely in London). Times have changed. Since the founding of the...
Mar 19 2007 // Two Louisiana lawmakers said they support a plan to overhaul the state-backed insurance company by opening much of its business to bidding among private firms.Sen. James David Cain, chairman of the Senate Insurance...
Mar 19 2007 // The New Mexico legislature has passed a bill that would establish a file and use rate regulatory system for most personal lines of insurance. The Insurance Rate Regulation Law, SB 483, applies to all kinds and lines of...
Mar 19 2007 // A House committee approved almost $4 billion in agricultural disaster aid late last week, a first step for the controversial legislation.The money is included as part of a war spending bill that would require withdrawal of...
Mar 15 2007 // The evenly divided Oklahoma Senate recently passed three key lawsuit reform measures, according to a Senate announcement.Senate Republican leaders said they are negotiating with Senate Democrats and leaders of the House of...