All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 6 2005 // Illegal immigrants injured on the job are entitled to workers’ compensation benefits despite their legal status, a California state appeals court recently ruled.The 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled in a case...
Nov 6 2005 // CaliforniaCDI Amends Proposed “Action Notice” Filing Regulations The California Department of In-surance has deleted a section of proposed regulations that would have required insurers to notify CDI when a...
Nov 6 2005 // Regulatory reform, terrorism insurance and the eventual impact of record-breaking natural disasters were the main topics of discussion at the annual meeting of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, held in...
Nov 6 2005 // Credit-based insurance scoring has been a contentious legislative and regulatory issue in the world of insurance for at least the last three or four years, but the nature of the debate has changed, Robert Detlefsen,...
Nov 6 2005 // P/C Insurers Post Record Results in 2005: The U.S. property/casualty industry recorded an underwriting profit of $13.2 billion, with a net income of $32.1 billion during the first six months of 2005, a substantial gain...
Nov 6 2005 // P/C Insurers Post Record Results in 2005: The U.S. property/casualty industry recorded an underwriting profit of $13.2 billion, with a net income of $32.1 billion during the first six months of 2005, a substantial gain...
Nov 3 2005 // Kimberly Moreland, director of Account Management at Rising Medical Solutions Inc., recently spoke to some of the challenges facing those who deal in workers’ compensation at the Work Injury Conference in...
Nov 2 2005 // Rep. Michael G. Oxley (R-Ohio), Chairman of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee announced yesterday that he will not seek re-election in 2006.Oxley will retire from Congress at the end of his current term,...
Nov 2 2005 // Willis Group Holdings Limited, the global insurance broker, reported results for the quarter and nine months ended Sept. 30, 2005.Net income for the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2005 was $49 million, or $0.30 per diluted share,...
Nov 2 2005 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has announced that he will suspend his efforts to adopt new regulations imposing fiduciary duties and mandatory disclosure obligations on insurance agents and...
Nov 1 2005 // A Suffolk Superior Court in Boston has ruled that an admittedly drunk underage drinker in Massachusetts can sue two bars that served him alcohol before he was involved in a vehicle crash.According to Judge Ralph Gants,...
Nov 1 2005 // Insurers are challenging a Delaware regulation that limits their ability to base homeowners insurance underwriting decisions on insureds’ past claims history.The American Insurance Association and the Property...
Nov 1 2005 // Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour has criticized President George Bush and his administration’s proposals for Hurricane Katrina-related aid, saying it falls short of what Mississippi has requested from the federal...
Nov 1 2005 // California State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Stockton District Office and the Stanislaus County Farm Bureau will jointly hold a free seminar, “Confined Space in the Workplace,” on November 3rd in...
Oct 31 2005 // New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who is running for Governor in his home state, has painted his critics as defenders of corrupt practices and not true champions of free enterprise.He also has sought to refute the...
Oct 31 2005 // United Industry Effort Results in CDI Deletion of Contentious Proposed Regulation LanguageRancho Cordova…The Western Insurance Agents Association commended the recent action by the California Department of Insurance...
Oct 28 2005 // By a vote of 228-184 on Thursday, the House of Representatives favorably approved H.R. 420, the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act (LARA).The legislation, introduced by Representative Lamar Smith (R-Texas), would penalize...
Oct 28 2005 // Connecticut lawmakers moved closer this week toward making it a felony for the owner of a commercial vehicle to knowingly operate it without insurance.Responding to a fiery 20-vehicle crash in Avon that killed four people...
Oct 28 2005 // Mississippi state law does not require insurance companies to cover punitive damage awards in their automobile liability policies, the Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled.In 2002, Shelter Mutual Insurance Co. and Shelter...
Oct 28 2005 // A federal judge has ruled that an insurance carrier does not have to help ClearOne Communications cover a $10 million settlement with its shareholders.U.S. District Court Judge Tina Campbell said ClearOne, a maker of audio...