All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 4 2005 // The cries for meaningful workers’ compensation reforms have reverberated in the halls of the capitol buildings in Austin and Oklahoma City for many years. Session after session the respective legislatures tinkered...
Jul 4 2005 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed legislation making it tougher on criminals who commit insurance fraud in the state, according Texas Committee on Insurance Fraud, which strongly supported the measures.Senate Bill 871 by...
Jul 4 2005 // Insurers, and especially self-insurers, are seeing positive trends as a result of the workers’ compensation reforms in California, experts on the subject told attendees at the recent Casualty Actuarial Society Spring...
Jul 4 2005 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi recently took time out from his schedule to chat with Insurance Journal Online Editor Dave Thomas regarding SB 938, “use it and lose it” practices against...
Jul 4 2005 // Five or fewer insurers control at least three-quarters of the small-group insurance market. This lack of competition contributes to double-digit premium increases for many small businesses and forces an increase in the...
Jul 4 2005 // The Association of California Insurance Companies is opposing Small Claims Court legislation that would hurt consumers by reducing the ability of insurers to represent their policyholders in court. Jeff Fuller,...
Jul 4 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...
Jul 4 2005 // While insurance companies are calling upon state officials to coordinate their responses to the various brokerage compensation and other inquiries, independent insurance agents are worried about how the insurers themselves...
Jul 4 2005 // MASSACHUSETTSRomney Would Require Insurance: Gov. Mitt Romney would require every person in the state to have health insurance under his plan for universal health coverage, which he has dubbed the Safety Net Care proposal....
Jul 4 2005 // When the chief executive officer of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America spoke before the Virginia Big “I” recently, he snuck in several digs at liberal-leaning Massachusetts, at one point...
Jul 4 2005 // If our product must be purchased, it should be affordable or bad things can happen in the public affairs arena. We’re finding that to be the case in Minnesota.Minnesota is one of the few remaining states that has...
Jul 4 2005 // After years of clamoring for relief from expanding workers’ compensation claims, payouts and premiums, Missouri employers are heralding legislative changes that may signal a growing trend by business to curtail...
Jul 4 2005 // Columbus, Ohio-based Grange Insurance has promoted Alan D. Brannan to the new post of president of property/casualty for the Grange Mutual Casualty Group. In his new role, Brannan will oversee all property/casualty...
Jul 4 2005 // Crucial differences between public and mutual insurers cause the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies to oppose the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ proposal to embed in state insurance...
Jul 4 2005 // Well-intentioned legislation aimed at fighting broad-based identity theft needs several changes before it can work effectively for property/casualty insurance policyholders, according to Raymond G. Farmer, Ameri-can...
Jul 4 2005 // ACIC OPPOSES CREDIT BILL: The Association of California Insurance Companies is opposing legislation which would eliminate rather than regulate credit-based insurance scoring, according to ACIC President Sam Sorich. The...
Jul 4 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...
Jul 4 2005 // ACIC OPPOSES CREDIT BILL: The Association of California Insurance Companies is opposing legislation which would eliminate rather than regulate credit-based insurance scoring, according to ACIC President Sam Sorich. The...
Jul 4 2005 // A New Jersey Supreme Court decision handed down last month that eliminates a “serious life impact” test under the auto insurance verbal threshold will dramatically increase automobile insurance losses and rates...
Jul 4 2005 // If our product must be purchased, it should be affordable or bad things can happen in the public affairs arena. We’re finding that to be the case in Minnesota.Minnesota is one of the few remaining states that has...