All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 9 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...
Oct 9 2006 // California’s Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West (IBA West) has launched a legal attack on what it is calling California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi’s attempt to illegally redefine agent and...
Oct 9 2006 // A California correctional officer who was hurt while helping at an accident while on his way to work is not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits, the Third Appellate District Court of Appeal has ruled. The...
Oct 9 2006 // Commissioner challenge“The principal role is to make sure that the market works; that you have insurance products that are reasonably priced that provide the service that they’re purported to do with the...
Oct 9 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced on Sept. 28 that he will likely recommend a further reduction in the state’s workers’ compensation insurance rates of at least an additional 6.3...
Oct 9 2006 // House passes surplus lines, reinsurance regulatory reform legislationThe U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Sept. 27 that would apply single-state regulation and uniform standards to the nonadmitted...
Oct 9 2006 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners President and Maine Insurance Superintendent Alessandro A. Iuppa told a House Financial Services Subcommittee panel last month that strong financial regulation of...
Oct 6 2006 // A federal judge this week refused to block employees of State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. from being questioned under oath by lawyers in civil cases while they are targets of a criminal probe of the company’s handling...
Oct 5 2006 // Many Florida homeowners will get larger property insurance discounts — about double what they now receive — for improvements aimed at avoiding hurricane damage under a rule approved this week by Gov. Jeb Bush and the...
Oct 5 2006 // A South Texas company whose bus exploded and killed 23 nursing home residents as they fled from Hurricane Rita has been convicted of failing to maintain its buses and follow inspection regulations, and conspiring to lie on...
Oct 4 2006 // New laws and increased public scrutiny are changing financial reporting requirements in the property/casualty insurance industry. Actuaries, who play key roles in that critical arena, are being asked to broaden the scope...
Oct 4 2006 // The Alliance of Insurance Agents and Brokers, La Verne, Calif., is drafting a letter to the California Office of Administrative Law in support of the recent petition by IBA West over the Insurance Commissioner’s...
Oct 2 2006 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has rejected an effort by two high-ranking Republican lawmakers to revive a business-friendly law that would have altered how civil lawsuit awards are paid.In a one-sentence order released on...
Oct 2 2006 // U.S. Senator Mel Martinez, R-Fla., has introduced bipartisan legislation to implement a national hurricane research initiative designed to better research, predict and prepare for hurricanes.Martinez crafted the proposal...
Sep 29 2006 // A former Franklin County judge must pay $587,000 in legal fees connected to her failed defense against accusations of misconduct, a federal judge ruled.Former Common Pleas Judge Deborah O’Neill, 51, owes the money...
Sep 29 2006 // Califiornia Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced he will likely recommend a further reduction in workers’ compensation insurance rates of at least an additional 6.3 percent. Based on pre-reform trends, the...
Sep 29 2006 // California’s Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West (IBA West) has launched a legal attack on what it is calling California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi’s attempt to illegally redefine agent and...
Sep 28 2006 // Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.), a senior Member of the House Financial Services Committee, today introduced legislation that would create an optional federal charter regulatory regime for life and property/casualty insurance...
Sep 28 2006 // A California correctional officer who was hurt while helping at an accident while on his way to work is not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits, the Third Appellate District Court of Appeal has ruled. It...
Sep 27 2006 // The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would apply single-state regulation and uniform standards to the nonadmitted insurance and reinsurance marketplace.H.R. 5637, The Non-Admitted and Reinsurance...