All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 4 2006 // The attorneys general of New York, Connecticut and Illinois are continuing their fight against anti-competitive practices in the insurance industry. In doing so, they have been finding fault with contingent commissions...
Sep 1 2006 // The California Land and Title Association is urging the Department of Insurance (DOI) to withdraw a proposal for new government regulations that it says would devastate small title companies at a time when the cyclical...
Aug 31 2006 // The $50 million (euro39 million) compensatory damage award in a federal Vioxx case this month was “grossly excessive,” and a new trial must be held to decide damages for a retired FBI agent who suffered a heart...
Aug 31 2006 // The head of the New Jersey Democratic Party has repaid Prudential Insurance Co. more than $1,200 for golf tickets and other gifts he received from a former lobbyist who was later accused of stalking him.Assemblyman Joseph...
Aug 31 2006 // Lobbyists at the state Capitol in Hartford are challenging Connecticut’s new campaign finance reform law in federal court, saying rules banning them from making campaign contributions are...
Aug 30 2006 // Missouri Insurance Director Dale Finke this week unveiled the new Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Registration (DIFP).According to the statement, the new department stems from the...
Aug 30 2006 // Illinois consumers filed fewer complaints regarding their insurance companies and HMOs in 2005, according to consumer complaint statistics released recently by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional...
Aug 30 2006 // A prominent Democratic fundraiser for Gov. Rod Blagojevich was awarded a $900,000 no-bid state contract months after being cut from an investment proposal that has drawn scrutiny from federal investigators, according to a...
Aug 29 2006 // The U.K.’s Hiscox Insurance Co. has launched of a new management liability policy developed to cover the liabilities of U.K. companies, their directors and employees.Hiscox said it had revamped the coverage “to...
Aug 29 2006 // The legislator who handled the new law requiring voters to show a photo ID at the polls was allowed to step into the court battle Monday.Missouri’s Cole County Circuit Judge Richard Callahan permitted Sen. Delbert...
Aug 29 2006 // At its Board of Directors meeting in Austin on Aug. 25 and 26, the Texas Insurance Professionals (PIA Texas) discussed the current situation facing the Texas insurance market as it relates to the Texas Windstorm Insurance...
Aug 28 2006 // California lawmakers on Monday will begin the final days of the 2005-2006 legislative session, which ends midnight Aug. 31. The following, by Sam Sorich, president of the Association of California Insurance Companies, is a...
Aug 28 2006 // The Latin American Agents Association said it will wait and see how insurers react to newly imposed automobile rating regulations in California. After the Superior Court denial, and Appeals Court rejection of the insurer...
Aug 27 2006 // Two new Louisiana laws giving insurance policyholders more time to sue their insurers or file claims over damage from hurricanes Katrina and Rita are constitutional, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled Aug. 25.The unanimous...
Aug 27 2006 // People who want insurance companies to pay for their losses after levee breaks in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina are waiting for word from a federal judge.U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval, who is in charge of 33...
Aug 27 2006 // Republican state Rep. Juan Zapata said his own party has failed Floridians by not coming up with a solution to the state’s insurance crisis and accused a fellow GOP lawmaker who has had a large role in insurance...
Aug 27 2006 // A new law requiring out-of-state doctors to get a temporary South Carolina medical license before testifying as experts in court has been suspended by the state Supreme Court.The court “cannot allow the...
Aug 25 2006 // A Louisiana state judge on Aug. 23 ruled as constitutional two new state laws giving insurance policyholders more time to sue their insurers or file claims over damage from hurricanes Katrina and Rita.District Court Judge...
Aug 25 2006 // With nearly 95 percent of insurance claims from last year’s hurricane season already settled, the recent Louisiana district court ruling on the constitutionality of laws that extend the time period for consumers to...
Aug 25 2006 // A federal judge on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit by coal miners demanding that the government do more to ensure miners have working oxygen supplies and know how to use them.The lawsuit was filed in June after Congress...