All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 7 2006 // 100The number of federal lawmakers from both parties that asked the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to put a hold on the efforts of various U.S. companies, including Wal-Mart, to open banks. Federal bank regulators halted...
Aug 7 2006 // Wildfires, captives, credit scoring, and broker compensation and disclosure have been hot topics lately — especially since wildfire season in particular extends through September. But the Arizona Department of...
Aug 7 2006 // News CurrentsThree insurance trade groups filed a lawsuit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to stop enforcement of California Department of Insurance auto rating regulations they said will harm millions of...
Aug 7 2006 // Legislation that would establish a bipartisan national commission tasked with recommending policies to help the federal government prepare for and manage disaster response has been introduced in the House of...
Aug 7 2006 // For the insurance industry, global controversies tend to obscure some equally important debates going on in smaller forums around the globe. The principal controversy in the U.S. revolves around state vs. federal...
Aug 6 2006 // With Maryland’s groundbreaking Wal-Mart health care bill declared invalid by a federal judge, state officials are re-examining their options for providing medical care to many of the almost 800,000 people who have no...
Aug 4 2006 // A decision on the constitutionality of new state laws giving hurricane-affected homeowners in Louisiana an extra year to sue their insurance companies will not be expedited by a court, the state’s top insurance...
Aug 3 2006 // To help protect consumers against fraud, all West Virginia home inspectors will have to be certified by the State Fire Commission.The new law went into effect August 1. Under the new state law passed in April, all...
Aug 2 2006 // Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has signed rules to enforce a statewide workplace smoking ban and said he believes most businesses in the state will view clean air as a smart business choice.“Breathe easy,...
Aug 2 2006 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) will host its 2006 Workers’ Compensation Conference in Austin on Sept. 20 at the Hyatt Regency.Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Albert Betts will be the conference keynote...
Aug 2 2006 // The Western Insurance Agents Association has issued a statement saying the settlement that St. Paul Travelers has just reached with attorneys general from Connecticut, Illinois, and New York is the latest attempt by an...
Jul 31 2006 // Legislation that would establish a bipartisan national commission tasked with recommending policies to help the federal government prepare for and manage disaster response has been introduced in the House of...
Jul 30 2006 // Federal bank regulators have halted for six months any new approvals of the sort of industrial banks that Wal-Mart, Home Depot and 12 other companies are seeking to own.The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. imposed the...
Jul 30 2006 // The ethics commission determined last Friday that Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Gallagher may have violated ethics laws because he owned stock in two insurance companies while regulating the industry.The...
Jul 28 2006 // Indianapolis-based the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) recently announced a major reorganization of its governmental affairs operation, recognizing the convergence of issues facing the...
Jul 27 2006 // The House Financial Services Committee has approved legislation that would apply single-state regulation and uniform standards to the nonadmitted insurance and reinsurance marketplace.Chairman Michael G. Oxley (Ohio)...
Jul 26 2006 // A group helping rebuild the Church of God’s financial arm is to pay at least $4 million to investors who lost many millions more when their money was put in risky real estate deals rather than toward building...
Jul 25 2006 // As the Non-Admitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2006 (HR 5637) makes its way to full committee of the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services, the American Association of Managing General Agents sent a call to...
Jul 25 2006 // The National Insurance Act of 2006 would undermine key insurance consumer protections, constrict the availability of insurance, create market instability and prompt a flood of litigation, according to Leonard C. Brevik,...
Jul 25 2006 // The Civil Justice Association of California (CJAC) in Sacramento applauded the California Supreme Court for applying Proposition 64 to lawsuits that were pending when the initiative overwhelmingly passed in November...