All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 16 2005 // The Oklahoma House of Representatives has voted to give the state’s major medical malpractice insurer two more years to build up its reserves before state regulators intervene.House Bill 1566, by State Rep. Dan...
Mar 16 2005 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn urged the Senate Insurance and Elections Committee to pass Senate Bill 2, which would prohibit the use of credit scoring in auto and homeowners insurance policies in Delaware. Denn...
Mar 16 2005 // A Delaware bill that would ban insurers from using credit history to underwrite auto and homeowner policies would raise prices for most insurance consumers, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of...
Mar 16 2005 // The Oklahoma House of Representatives has voted in favor of House Bill 1554, by State Rep. Dale DeWitt, which would create the “Commonsense Consumption Act” to “prevent frivolous lawsuits against...
Mar 16 2005 // A single point of entry for access to insurance information, services and tools for consumers, regulators and industry is now available on the National Portal for Insurance Regulatory Information on the National...
Mar 15 2005 // A proposal by the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission that would require most insurance company employees to register as lobbyists fails to distinguish true lobbyists who perform an “influencing”...
Mar 15 2005 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners recently named its funded consumer liaison representatives for 2005. Established in 1992, the program promotes consumer representation and interaction with NAIC members,...
Mar 15 2005 // Despite the apparent support of Georgia House leaders, the Republican-controlled House failed late March 11 to pass House Bill 683 and send it to the Senate. Friday was the 30th day of the legislative session and the...
Mar 14 2005 // Auto leasing interests in New York are renewing their battle against the state’s vicarious liability law that they say has demolished the car leasing industry in the state.The United Auto Workers (UAW), the New York...
Mar 14 2005 // Six bills strengthening the fight against insurance fraud were filed in the Texas House of Representatives. The legislation includes everything from reporting fraud to enhancing penalties for insurance fraud where someone...
Mar 14 2005 // “State legislators are right to challenge an NAIC initiative that would impose sweeping federal requirements designed to protect stockholders on privately held insurance companies,” according to an official of...
Mar 14 2005 // State Representative Bill Callegari, Katy, filed House Bill 2573 to establish a motor vehicle financial responsibility program in Texas. According the House Media Services Division, HB 2573 is a version of a similar...
Mar 14 2005 // Sometimes people can’t seem to get enough of a good, or in this case, bad thing.While appearing last Wednesday in a Sacramento County courtroom for a preliminary hearing, James Chester Taylor, Jr., 72, of Quartz...
Mar 11 2005 // A one-year moratorium on homeowners insurance policy changes has been requested in a letter signed by 13 members of the Moible, Ala. county legislative delegation.“Even though we understand the costs associated with...
Mar 11 2005 // Recent security breaches at companies that collect, store and sell personal data – such as ChoicePoint, LexisNexis and Bank of America – individually and collectively cast a spotlight on privacy and security...
Mar 11 2005 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) has announced its federal affairs agenda for 2005, and topping the list of items include further legal reform, improving state-based insurance regulation, an...
Mar 10 2005 // Research and Markets announced the addition of The Global Insurance Handbook 2005 to their offering.The increasing size of risk in the world is reportedly influencing multinational and global companies to protect ever...
Mar 9 2005 // The House of Representatives has introduced legislation that would extend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA), which is set to expire at the end of 2005.The proposal, H.R. 1153, would keep a federal terrorism...
Mar 9 2005 // The number of Vermont teenagers who died in traffic crashes has declined sharply to where the state has one of the lowest death rates in the country. Highway safety officials credit the new “graduated” licenses...
Mar 9 2005 // Companies in Connecticut with 100 or more employees could be forced to pay a fee to help cover their workers’ health insurance expenses if they don’t already offer coverage, under a preliminary legislative...