All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 16 2005 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies has told a Hawaii legislative committee that passage of rate modernization laws would benefit state commerce and insurance consumers.In written comments filed last...
Aug 15 2005 // A public interest lawyer has charged Republican Douglas Forrester with intentionally skirting New Jersey law by licensing an insurance company out-of-state and using the shell operation to illegally funnel millions in...
Aug 15 2005 // Lawrence H. Mirel, insurance commissioner for the District of Columbia, is stepping down from the post he has held for the past six years, the office of D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams has confirmed.Vincent Morris, a spokesman...
Aug 12 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has affirmed its “BBB-” counterparty credit and senior unsecured debt ratings on Willis Group Holdings Ltd. and has revised the outlook to stable...
Aug 12 2005 // Requiring insurers to submit written explanations of “for cause” terminations of company appointments is unnecessary and lacks statutory authorityRancho Cordova…The Western Insurance Agents Association, a...
Aug 12 2005 // The American Agents Alliance released the correction to an Aug. 10 article titled American Agents Alliance Comments on CDI’s Amendment of Agency Appointment Regulations. “The Alliance remains opposed to the...
Aug 12 2005 // The Association of California Insurance Companies has released their weekly bill roundup. The following bills that will be heard next week in the California Legislature:Senate Appropriations Committee – Aug. 15 AB...
Aug 11 2005 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America is disappointed that the state Supreme Court has invalided what PCI believed was a valuable law designed to help provide drug and alcohol-free working environments in...
Aug 10 2005 // Thanks to the pressure applied by the American Agents Alliance and its association partners, the California Department of Insurance has amended its proposed regulations dealing with the electronic reporting of agency...
Aug 10 2005 // A 224-page report from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania recommends that Congress renew the current federal Terrorism Risk Insurance Act backstop but “only for a relatively short period of...
Aug 9 2005 // Ohio Insurance Director Ann Womer Benjamin today announced the reorganization of the Department’s Office of Investigative and Licensing Services to create a Fraud and Enforcement Division and a Market Regulation and...
Aug 9 2005 // Creating a model act to establish a property claim history database would be “irrelevant,” given legislative action that has already occurred in the states wrote the National Association of Mutual Insurance...
Aug 9 2005 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) on Tuesday sharply criticized a recent decision by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that it says mandates an unfair application of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)...
Aug 9 2005 // The Western Insurance Agents Association, a leader in the fight against the Garamendi Agenda, submitted comments to the California Department of Insurance opposing yet another over-reaching proposed regulation impacting...
Aug 8 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 8 2005 // This is the Association of California Insurance Companies special report on the status of significant insurance-related bills that are awaiting action by the Legislature. Lawmakers return from their month-long summer...
Aug 8 2005 // A Pennsylvania court has ruled unconstitutional a key component of tort reforms enacted in 2002. Commonwealth Court ruled that a measure that abolished joint and several liability is invalid because it was not germane to...
Aug 8 2005 // Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter A. Bell described his state’s insurance market as “impressive” and as a “healthy market, trending upward,” during the Alabama Independent Insurance...
Aug 8 2005 // The 143rd Delaware General Assembly wrapped up its 2005 biennial session with the passage of the budget bill on June 30 and without the passage of legislation that would have negatively impacted insurers according to the...
Aug 8 2005 // Congress took an important step toward opening the world’s insurance markets when it approved the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the American Insurance Association said. “Costa Rica, one of the...