All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 29 2005 // The Alabama Hurricane Issues Task Force headed by Insurance Commissioner Walter A. Bell has recommended a new regulation that would force insurers to give 60 days notice to policyholders whose insurance will be changed or...
Jun 29 2005 // Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski recently signed 18 bills into law, including legislation to reform insurance regulations. “I was pleased to sign these important pieces of legislation into law,” said Murkowski....
Jun 28 2005 // Children under 14 would have to stick to swimming or water-skiing under a bill gaining support in the New York Legislature that would restrict the use of personal watercraft.The measure, sponsored by Assemblywoman Patricia...
Jun 28 2005 // The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents steadfastly supports state regulation of insurance, strongly opposes an optional federal charter and has cautioned carriers against adopting company-specific...
Jun 28 2005 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Florida has announced the completion of its 2005 Legislative Report summarizing the provisions of recent legislation passed in the spring sessions of the Florida Legislature and that it...
Jun 27 2005 // Vermont Gov. James Douglas has signed into law two bills, one designed to prevent cigarette-related fire deaths and the other to financially protect firefighters who suffer heart attacks in the line of duty.One law calls...
Jun 27 2005 // Chrysler Financial, a business unit of DaimlerChrysler Services North America LLC, will cease leasing cars in Rhode Island beginning August 1, 2005, if the current vicarious liability legislation passed by the state...
Jun 27 2005 // A.M. Best Co. announced that it has downgraded the financial strength ratings of several of AXA Canada Inc.’s wholly owned property and casualty insurance subsidiaries.The rating action affects the following...
Jun 24 2005 // A compromise worked out by a Rhode Island state Senate committee would push implementation of the state’s new lead paint law back to Nov. 1.The Committee on Health and Human Services this week approved the plan to...
Jun 23 2005 // Insurers are urging Connecticut Gov. Jodi M. Rell to veto a medical malpractice reform measure that is sitting on her desk but Rell’s office has indicated she will likely sign the measure within the next few...
Jun 22 2005 // The day after a court struck a blow to his administration’s reforms of the state’s auto insurance residual market, the powerful independent agents’ lobby also pulled the rug out from under some of Gov....
Jun 22 2005 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America issued the following statement from CEO Robert A. Rusbuldt in response to an inaccurate characterization from the OFCC regarding the association’s position...
Jun 22 2005 // Effective immediately, Allstate Floridian Insurance Co. has announced it will raise Florida homeowners rates 28 percent and the company plans to file a request to have the increase approved in July. State law allows...
Jun 21 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 (CAS)...
Jun 21 2005 // The Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) is opposing legislation which would eliminate rather than regulate credit-based insurance scoring, according to ACIC President Sam Sorich.The bill, SB 603 by Sen...
Jun 21 2005 // The Western Insurance Agents Association has released a brochure on behalf of its member agents detailing its campaign to stop California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi’s alleged excessive and unjust...
Jun 20 2005 // Indiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Atterholt has withdrawn a bulletin that interpreted the “sole-use” provision of the state’s credit-based insurance scoring law to prohibit insurers from taking adverse...
Jun 20 2005 // Minnesota’s insurance marketplace will never be the same after lawmakers passed legislation that will make it easier for insurers to offer newer and improved products to its customers, according to a statement...
Jun 20 2005 // Nine judges have been selected for the third annual Florida CHOICE Awards for Workers’ Compensation. The program, produced by CHOICE Medical Management Services LLC, recognizes outstanding physicians who treat...
Jun 20 2005 // Connecticut recently became the first state to voluntarily adopt legislation recognizing civil unions between same-sex couples. Connecticut’s civil union law, which will go into effect October 1, formally recognizes...