All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 17 2006 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Susan Cogswell has warned independent agents in her state that they should expect to see legislation to restrict or wipe out their contingent commissions.She said that legislation should...
Nov 15 2006 // Insurance carriers, agencies, and producers will be able to connect with the South Dakota Department of Revenue and Regulation, Division of Insurance 24 hours a day, thanks to an agreement signed recently with a national...
Nov 15 2006 // Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) has signed legislation that creates a high net worth exclusion into the state law governing the fund that covers claims when an insurer becomes insolvent.A high net worth policyholder is...
Nov 14 2006 // To combat problems created by uninsured drivers, Nebraska State Sen. Ray Aguilar of Grand Island plans to introduce legislation next year that would create a driver’s certificate.The certificate would allow a person...
Nov 13 2006 // Six lawsuits against insurance companies over damage claims from Hurricane Katrina once set for trial in 2007 have been delayed by U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter Jr.Senter also says he is willing to consider consolidating...
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...