All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 19 2006 // Earlier this year, Ginny Stevans began compiling the “book of tears” – dozens of e-mails from Floridians who are suffering because of skyrocketing property insurance rates.Stevans, president of a Pasco...
Dec 19 2006 // This year, the target for Maine lawmakers in Augusta was habitual offenders. Next year, it’ll be repeat drunken drivers.State Sen. Bill Diamond was a sponsor of Tina’s Law, which was signed into law earlier...
Dec 18 2006 // Legislators gave Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco little of what she wanted in her failed legislative session, approving just two of her bills on Dec. 15: plans to rebate homeowners’ insurance fees and to use $300...
Dec 18 2006 // A California Court of Appeals has ruled that an employer whose employee sends threatening e-mail messages and posts them on an Internet bulletin board using the company’s computer is not liable as an interactive...
Dec 15 2006 // The Atkins diet is protected by the First Amendment against the claims of a Florida man who said the low-carbohydrate meal plan was dangerous and to blame for his heart troubles, a federal judge in New York ruled this...
Dec 15 2006 // Lawmakers are expected to wrap up the 2005-06 session this week. Among the bills acted on and sent to Gov. Jennifer Granholm for her consideration this week:Bills that would allow an automobile insurer to offer a premium...
Dec 15 2006 // Employees at Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers struggled with pushy lawmakers and threats by businesses to involve the governor as they decided premium rates for certain Ohio businesses, newly released...
Dec 15 2006 // Incoming New York Governor Eliot Spitzer will nominate Eric Dinallo, the former head of Spitzer’s own investment public protection division while he was attorney general and currently general counsel of Willis Group...
Dec 14 2006 // Under pressure from state regulators, Allstate’s two Florida homeowners insurance companies are drastically shrinking the size of the rate increase they’re seeking.Allstate spokesman Ryan Priest said the...
Dec 14 2006 // Insurance regulators from across the county voted to recommend major changes in the way reinsurers are regulated.The Financial Condition Committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners this week adopted a...
Dec 13 2006 // The Justice Department this week agreed to ease its tough legal tactics against scandal-tainted corporations, requiring prosecutors to get approval from Washington before seeking confidential information between firms and...
Dec 13 2006 // Republican lawmakers in Louisiana’s House of Representatives helped stall Gov. Kathleen Blanco’s spending plans, but the governor said she’s not negotiating with the GOP legislators any further in the...
Dec 13 2006 // Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said this week that he will roll out a plan to lower health care costs by forcing hospitals and other care providers to be more efficient and make fewer mistakes.The plan, to be unveiled fully...
Dec 12 2006 // The next speaker of West Virginia’s House of Delegates will be receptive to measures pressing large employers like Wal-Mart for better health care benefits and overhauling the grievance process for public workers,...
Dec 12 2006 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners stressed its support for what it says is one of the strongest tools for state regulators, State Based Systems (SBS), during its recent meeting in San Antonio.SBS serves...
Dec 12 2006 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners elected 2007 officers during last week’s winter meeting in San Antonio.Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter Bell was named president, Kansas Insurance...
Dec 11 2006 // A nearly $2 billion package of pay raises, road repairs, insurance rebates, health care and other spending sought by Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco easily sped through a House committee Dec. 9.The House Appropriations...
Dec 11 2006 // The Associated Press is reporting that the recent appointment of Juan Vargas to serve as Safeco’s vice president of external relations is creating controversy. “The appointment of the San Diego lawmaker to one...
Dec 11 2006 // The Second Applegate Court of California has ruled in Six Flags Inc. vs. Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board, et. al. that it is unconstitutional to award a $250,000 worker’s compensation death benefit to the...
Dec 11 2006 // In a decision that could cost insurers billions of dollars more than they have already paid out in Hurricane Katrina claims, a federal judge in New Orleans ruled that ambiguities in some homeowners policies leave open the...