All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 17 2006 // Risk Management Solutions has defended its hurricane risk models in the face of consumer groups’ criticisms that the models are more political than they are scientific and that they are designed to justify insurance...
Apr 17 2006 // The Commissioners are now fully prepared to go before their various legislative committees with recommendations for a system of insurance law which shall be the same in all States – not reciprocal, but identical; not...
Apr 17 2006 // Executives at Rhode Island’s largest workers compensation carrier, Beacon Mutual Insurance Co., figure they could be looking for new jobs as early as June if Governor Donald Carcieri gets his way. They expect that if...
Apr 17 2006 // Everyone pays their part: individuals, government, health care providers and employers,” proclaims the document outlining the latest plan to expand health insurance to all citizens in Massachusetts.The Commonwealth...
Apr 17 2006 // PeopleHub International Ltd., a Chicago-based brokerage has named Jonathan Axel senior vice president of the Kagan-Kozberg Division at Hub International of California Insurance Services Inc., a subsidiary of the insurance...
Apr 17 2006 // Optional federal chartering, federal regulation and the creation of a new federal bureaucracy go too far, the equivalent of throwing the baby out with the bath water.The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of...
Apr 17 2006 // Call for stepped-up regulation of third-parties providing hurricane rating and credit scoring dataRisk Management Solutions has defended its hurricane risk models in the face of consumer groups’ criticisms that the...
Apr 17 2006 // Claim counts include March and April stormsN1 U.S. tort costs reach a record $260 billion, study reports Cost exceeds other countries’ by large marginN1 Private companies at increased risk of liability lawsuitsSurvey...
Apr 17 2006 // More than 120 of Florida’s independent agents who attended the March 29 and 30 Florida Independent Insurance Agents Legislative “Fly-In” heard Skip Long, Scott Johnson, Laura Pearce and Kyle Ulrich...
Apr 17 2006 // The company (Allstate) “is pleased that the judge ruled, ‘The exclusions found in the policy for water damage and for damages attributable to flooding are valid and enforceable policy provisions,'”...
Apr 17 2006 // Federal regulatory preemption is an “underhanded means by which unelected federal bureaucrats impose their will on the states,” charges New York Senator Michael Balboni, of the National Conference of State...
Apr 17 2006 // Federal regulatory preemption is an “underhanded means by which unelected federal bureaucrats impose their will on the states,” charges New York Senator Michael Balboni, of the National Conference of State...
Apr 17 2006 // News CurrentsRisk Management Solutions has defended its hurricane risk models in the face of consumer groups’ criticisms that the models are more political than they are scientific and are designed to justify...
Apr 17 2006 // The chief proponent of a new law cited by Nevada in trying to block a mining industry watchdog group’s efforts to stop pollution from an old Nevada gold mine said that he didn’t envision the law being used that...
Apr 17 2006 // News CurrentsRisk Management Solutions, Newark, Calif., has defended its hurricane risk models in the face of consumer groups’ criticisms that the models are more political than they are scientific, and that they are...
Apr 17 2006 // A national insurance license helps agents by providing uniformity of regulatory standards; eliminating rate regulation; and allowing new products to be brought to market more quickly.Not all agents oppose an optional...
Apr 17 2006 // Editor’s note: This is the second article in a series on Western insurance associations. Part I of this article appeared in the April 3, 2006, western region publication beginning on page 47.As people migrate to the...
Apr 17 2006 // Public regulation commission suspends New Mexico’s superintendentState Insurance Superintendent Eric Serna has been suspended by the Public Regulation Commission on the recommendation of the attorney general, who is...
Apr 17 2006 // When a person drives and [where he or she] keeps their vehicle will impact cost, plain and simple.News Currents A bipartisan group of five assemblymembers joined with local elected officials and concerned citizens to...
Apr 17 2006 // News CurrentsCalifornia Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger won’t be making major workers’ compensation movements this year regarding permanent disability, according to an industry lobbyist....