All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 20 2005 // MASSACHUSETTSCAR NAMES COMMERCIAL CARRIERS: Commonwealth Auto Reinsurers has advanced its new commercial auto limited servicing carrier program by selecting the six carriers that will service this residual market business...
Jun 20 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...
Jun 20 2005 // INDIANACommissioner Withdraws Controversial ‘Sole-Use’ Bulletin Indiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Atterholt has withdrawn a bulletin that interpreted the “sole-use” provision of the state’s...
Jun 20 2005 // A coalition of carriers that insured Wisconsin’s paper manufacturers have, for now, successfully defeated a legislative effort that would have forced them to pick up the estimated $500 million tab to clean up the...
Jun 20 2005 // There are no second acts in American life,” F. Scott Fitzgerald famously noted. True, he never wrote another novel as wonderful as The Great Gatsby, but generally speaking he was wrong. Second, third and fourth...
Jun 20 2005 // Created more than a century ago in 1904 as the Florida Local Underwriters Association, the Florida Association of Insurance Agents adopted its present name in 1941. FAIA is dedicated to enhancing the independent agency...
Jun 20 2005 // Circuit Court Judge Kevin Davey ruled in a class-action lawsuit in Tallahassee, Fla., that Citizens Property Insurance Corp., Florida’s insurer of last resort, must pay the full amount of damage homes were insured...
Jun 20 2005 // Florida’s insurance industry survived last year’s record-breaking hurricane season and is prepared to help homeowners weather what may come this year. That was the message during a recent Web broadcast carried...
Jun 20 2005 // Oklahoma lawmakers passed workers’ compensation reform legislation, Senate Bill 1X, in a special legislative session that began May 31, the end date for the regular session. The bill was sent to Gov. Brad Henry who...
Jun 20 2005 // Homeownership is considered the centerpiece of the American dream. Homeowners insurance enables individuals and families to protect what is likely to be their single largest asset. Before finalizing their purchase, most...
Jun 20 2005 // Thanks to the leadership of Commissioner Jim Poolman, North Dakota insurance consumers now have common sense protections against unfair underwriting and rating actions by insurers because of information in loss history...
Jun 20 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 // WASH. CLIENTS ELIGIBLE FOR $14M FROM MARSH: More than 15,000 Washington businesses, associations, individuals and other organizations reportedly qualify for nearly $14 million in restitution offered by the nation’s...
Jun 20 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 // WASH. CLIENTS ELIGIBLE FOR $14M FROM MARSH: More than 15,000 Washington businesses, associations, individuals and other organizations reportedly qualify for nearly $14 million in restitution offered by the nation’s...
Jun 20 2005 // Joint efforts of insurance and banking regulators over the past several years have provided the foundation for effective communication and coordination between the state insurance departments and the Federal Reserve...
Jun 20 2005 // State insurance regulators moved closer to final adoption of model finite reinsurance disclosure language at the summer meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners in Boston in early June.As they did,...
Jun 19 2005 // From the playground to the classroom to the office – bullies can be found in all walks of life, says an anti-bullying advocacy group vying for new legislation that could potentially outlaw workplace bullying. But how...
Jun 17 2005 // Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has signed legislation that protects employers from being sued over work histories they disclose about current or former employees. The measure stemmed from the case of a Pennsylvania nurse who...
Jun 16 2005 // The Rhode Island Health Department has drafted guidelines that would govern drug imports from Canada, and help ensure the medications meet quality and safety standards in Rhode Island.The proposed rules would be another...