All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 8 2006 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) and the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) said today that common sense triumphed in South Dakota with the sound defeat of Amendment E, the so-called...
Nov 7 2006 // The Georgia insurance commission has adoped new regulations that promise to protect consumers who buy annuity products.Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine said an insurer or agent must have reasonable grounds for...
Nov 6 2006 // Outreach measures never reached many minority homeowners, study foundAssociated Press analysis showing white homeowners in New Orleans were three times as likely as minorities to appeal insurance settlements after...
Nov 6 2006 // The reality of today’s workplace is that a wide variety of employee grievances may escalate, almost without warning, into costly lawsuits. Any time an employee objects to a company employment practice that is...
Nov 6 2006 // Why government should require insurance policies to declare what is NOT coveredI have introduced legislation in the U.S. Senate to make future insurance policies easier for consumers to understand. The “Honesty is...
Nov 6 2006 // California’s Office of Administrative Law has approved “Reinsurance Accounting, Agreements and Oversight” regulations proposed by the Department of Insurance.The regulations set forth the principal...
Nov 6 2006 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation has issued a revised proposal of regulations that would penalize insurers and self-insurers that show a pattern of denying or delaying workers’ compensation...
Nov 6 2006 // A judge has ruled that former New Mexico Insurance Superintendent Eric Serna and his former deputy must appear for depositions in a lawsuit that contends a Santa Fe couple paid too much for title insurance.Serna and Joe...
Nov 6 2006 // On Oct. 1, 2006, the California Department of Motor Vehicles began enforcing Senate Bill 1500 that requires the DMV to suspend a vehicle’s registration if the vehicle does not have a valid insurance policy or bond....
Nov 6 2006 // California policyholders would see their automobile insurance premiums increase, under proposed Department of Insurance regulations that mandate payments to auto body shops for insured repair work, according to three...
Nov 6 2006 // Why government should require insurance policies to declare what is not coveredI have introduced legislation in the U.S. Senate to make future insurance policies easier for consumers to understand. The “Honesty is...
Nov 6 2006 // Insurers face five times the average number of lawsuits than other economic sectorsInsurance companies are the litigation champions confronting an average of 1,696 lawsuits, spanning from product liability and...
Nov 5 2006 // Skate parks across Nebraska, such as those in Fremont, Norfolk and North Platte, are the first casualties of a state Supreme Court decision about liability and insurance coverage, many are saying.The Nebraska Supreme Court...
Nov 5 2006 // I have introduced legislation in the U.S. Senate to make future insurance policies easier for consumers to understand. The “Honesty is the Best Insurance Policy Act” calls for requiring insurance companies to...
Nov 5 2006 // Employment practices claims, like other tort exposures, are risks that may jeopardize corporate assets and therefore should be insured.The reality of today’s workplace is that a wide variety of employee grievances...
Nov 5 2006 // I have introduced legislation in the U.S. Senate to make future insurance policies easier for consumers to understand. The “Honesty is the Best Insurance Policy Act” calls for requiring insurance companies to...
Nov 5 2006 // Calif. auto body regulations would increase ratesCalifornia policyholders would see their automobile insurance premiums increase, under proposed Department of Insurance regulations that mandate payments to auto body shops...
Nov 5 2006 // Many California Hispanics unaware of uninsured motorists requirementsOn Oct. 1, 2006, the California Department of Motor Vehicles began enforcing Senate Bill 1500 that requires the DMV to suspend a vehicle’s...
Nov 5 2006 // California’s Office of Administrative Law has approved “Reinsurance Accounting, Agreements and Oversight” regulations proposed by the Department of Insurance.The regulations set forth the principal...
Nov 5 2006 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation has issued a revised proposal of regulations that would penalize insurers and self-insurers that show a pattern of denying or delaying workers’ compensation...