All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 22 2005 // Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has urged state legislators to pass a law to have the state pay for the life insurance premiums for National Guard soldiers and airmen on active duty, and a leading Republican senator said he...
Aug 22 2005 // NCOIL Model Addresses Use of Claims, Inquiries in Underwriting HomeownersConsumers who initiate a homeowners insurance claim but never receive payment could find that single incident may be used by their insurer to cancel...
Aug 22 2005 // The Insurance Council of Texas will host its 2005 Workers’ Compen-sation Conference in Austin on Sept. 7. State Representative Burt Solomons of Carrollton, author of House Bill 7, the broad workers’...
Aug 22 2005 // California’s highest court ruled that country clubs must offer gay members who register as domestic partners the same discounts given to married ones–a decision that could apply to other businesses such as...
Aug 22 2005 // The Western Insurance Agents Association submitted comments to the California Department of Insurance opposing yet another over-reaching proposed regulation impacting the insurance industry. Michael J. D’Arelli, vice...
Aug 22 2005 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of American praised Gov. Frank Murkowski for signing into law legislation which will modernize and improve Alaska’s system for establishing rates for homeowners, auto and...
Aug 22 2005 // MASSACHUSETTSHealth Insurance Rates Rising: The state’s largest health insurers say most Massachusetts companies and their workers will see increases of 10 percent or more in their health insurance premiums beginning...
Aug 22 2005 // © 2005 ConstructionWebLinks.comReprinted with Permission. All Rights Reserved The court rejected the contractor’s claim that it had a stringent fall protection plan, noting that the four-page, handwritten plan...
Aug 22 2005 // Ah, the traditional signs of summer-salt air, suntan lotion and that pungent smell without which no vacation trip is complete-the fumes of expensive gasoline. Although skyrocketing gas prices consume much of the...
Aug 22 2005 // ALABAMAHurricane Sales Tax Measure Dies An effort was mounted during Alabama Legislature meetings to grant a sales tax break on necessary supplies to prepare for a hurricane but the measure did not pass. Its sponsor Rep....
Aug 22 2005 // ArkansasConference to Aid Business Leaders The Arkansas Workers Compensa-tion Commission will hold the 18th Annual Workers’ Compen- sation Educational Conference Oct. 12-14 in Little Rock. The AWCC said businesses...
Aug 22 2005 // California’s highest court ruled that country clubs must offer gay members who register as domestic partners the same discounts given to married ones – a decision that could apply to other businesses such as...
Aug 22 2005 // WIAA SUBMITS COMMENTS ON LATEST GARAMENDI AGENDA PROPOSAL: The Western Insurance Agents Association submitted comments to the California Department of Insurance opposing yet another over-reaching proposed regulation...
Aug 22 2005 // Consumers who initiate a homeowners insurance claim but never receive payment could find that single incident may be used by their insurer to cancel their policy, or raise their premium, under a new claims history model...
Aug 19 2005 // Reversing a summary judgment by a district court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently decided that The Times-Picayune Publishing Corporation, based in New Orleans, is entitled to recover the entire...
Aug 19 2005 // Citing concern that insurance companies are using the 2004 hurricanes to unfairly raise rates, Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher has called for an independent review of a rate increase on homeowners...
Aug 18 2005 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America is disappointed that the state Supreme Court in David C. Grammatica v. Arizona Industrial Commission has invalidated what PCI believed was a valuable law designed to...
Aug 17 2005 // WIAA Calls Latest Set of Regulations “Agency Killer”; Calls on Coalition To Stick Together.Rancho Cordova…Although soundly defeated in the legislature earlier in the year, the Garamendi Agenda remains...
Aug 17 2005 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies will testify at an Alaska Division of Insurance hearing that, “at renewal, insurance carriers need the flexibility to engage in a total circumstances analysis of...
Aug 17 2005 // Businesses must notify New Yorkers when their financial and personal information has been compromised under a measure that has become law in New York.The Information Security Breach and Notification Act, which takes effect...