All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 23 2006 // An insurance company might have to pay $1.8 million if the lone survivor and relatives of five other victims of a shooting spree win lawsuits against the attacker’s parents, the Pennsylvania Superior Court...
Feb 23 2006 // Alabama HB227 which would lengthen the licensing period for insurance producers, service representatives and adjusters from the present one year, to two or more years and would increase the 12-hour continuing education...
Feb 22 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has announced new workers’ compensation regulations that will require all insurers to submit certification forms that verify that claims adjusters and medical bill...
Feb 22 2006 // U.S. terms for approving an Arab company’s takeover of operations at six major American ports are insufficient to guard against terrorist infiltration, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee...
Feb 22 2006 // Washington state officials have amended and approved legislation that would create an insurance anti-fraud unit in the insurance commissioner’s office, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of...
Feb 22 2006 // Barger & Wolen LLP, a Los Angeles-based law firm specializing in insurance regulatory, general business and litigation matters, has announced the opening of an office in Phoenix to be managed by Charles Cohen, former...
Feb 22 2006 // Nationally-recognized expert on insurance markets and regulation, Scott Harrington, Ph.D., and Alan B. Miller, professor of the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania, will discuss “Federal Charters for...
Feb 21 2006 // At least 5,300 cars across North Carolina have had their tags taken away by police and deputies empowered by a new law to confiscate the plates of uninsured vehicles.The law that took effect Dec. 1 gave local law...
Feb 21 2006 // At the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) Spring Meeting in Florida, Feb. 23 – 26 , state lawmakers from across the country will examine a draft mega-catastrophe program and, among other things,...
Feb 20 2006 // The Bush administration’s choice to lead the government’s traffic safety agency pledged this month to make the nation’s highways and roads safer for families while tackling issues like vehicle rollovers...
Feb 20 2006 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Robert Wooley announced he would step down as commissioner Feb. 15, 2006, leaving the office he has held since 2000. Although he is returning to the private sector, Wooley indicated he...
Feb 20 2006 // California workers’ compensation insurance rates are taking a turn for the better. Thanks to reform legislation, employers should have more access to reasonable rates. In fact, rates are roughly equivalent to 1995...
Feb 20 2006 // The Colorado House has introduced a bill that would create a Consumer Insurance Board to provide policy guidance to the Commissioner of Insurance, gather and prepare information for hearings regarding proposed insurance...
Feb 20 2006 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) and the insurance industry are working with the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission to finalize and implement proposed rate regulations that would convert...
Feb 20 2006 // Most failed company mergers remain a secret, except to a handful of insiders.That was not the case with the collapsed attempt by Zurich Financial Services Group to sell its affiliate, Universal Underwriters Insurance...
Feb 19 2006 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Robert Wooley announced he would step down as commissioner Feb. 15, 2006, leaving the office he has held since 2000. Although he is returning to the private sector, Wooley indicated he...
Feb 19 2006 // Colorado defeats legislation to change auto insurance claims practicesThe Colorado House Business Affairs and Labor Committee has unanimously rejected a bill that would have created the legal assumption that if an insured...
Feb 19 2006 // New Mexico considering commercial lines file and use systemThe National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) and the insurance industry are working with the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission to finalize...
Feb 19 2006 // The Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal in Washington, D.C., has prompted many to question the appropriateness of legislative lobbying that has become so much a part of American politics.California leads the nation in money...
Feb 19 2006 // Reduced rates and renewed competition in Calif.California workers’ compensation insurance rates are taking a turn for the better. Thanks to reform legislation, employers should have more access to reasonable rates....