All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 10 2005 // The Alliance of Specialty Medicine testified Thursday about the devastating effects the medical liability crisis is having on patient access to specialty healthcare and urged the Congress to pass medical liability reform...
Feb 9 2005 // A spokesman for the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America told a National Association of Insurance Commissioners panel today in Orlando that a proposal to apply new requirements based on the Sarbanes-Oxley law...
Feb 9 2005 // The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA National) will hold its annual Federal Legislative Summit on April 7, 2005 in Washington, D.C.The summit is a one-day legislative gathering of PIA members who...
Feb 8 2005 // Insurers around the globe are making progress – quickly in some areas – with using an integrated risk and capital management approach to drive business decisions, according to the third biennial survey of risk...
Feb 8 2005 // A National Association of Insurance Commissioners panel this week will begin to discuss whether costly new audit measures based on the federal Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) law should be imposed on non-public insurers despite...
Feb 8 2005 // Francis Pecoraro is trading a San Francisco Bay area medical practice that mainly serves injured workers for one in Wilmington, N.C., that he believes will be friendlier to doctors and doctors’ families.Pecoraro, who...
Feb 8 2005 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America commended the approach taken by the Nevada Division of Insurance on the disclosure of broker compensation in a temporary regulation adopted last week.“Instead of...
Feb 8 2005 // Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s (D) call on Tuesday for an elected insurance commissioner would politicize the regulation of one of the state’s most important economic sectors, according to...
Feb 8 2005 // Independent agents and brokers are taking regulations mandating information privacy safeguards very seriously, if attendance at recent American Agents Alliance meetings is any indicator. The independent insurance...
Feb 7 2005 // New York City will appeal a judge’s ruling against the state ban on same-sex marriages, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Saturday.The mayor said that while he believes such marriages should be permitted, “if we did...
Feb 7 2005 // A federal judge has sided with the state of Maine in an industry challenge to the constitutionality of a state law that requires pharmacy benefit managers to disclose side payments from drug companies and other financial...
Feb 7 2005 // Civil justice reform and medical malpractice insurance are the topics to watch as today’s session of the Georgia Legislature convenes in Atlanta. A legislative update has been issued by the Professional Insurance...
Feb 7 2005 // Four months before the hurricane season, storm clouds are forming due to insurance reform measures suggested by Sen. Ron Klein, D-Boca Raton.Klein told South Florida television stations and newspapers it’s essential...
Feb 7 2005 // The Florida Legislature is considering numerous actions during spring sessions, including taking a close look at preparedness for the upcoming hurricane season, now five months away; implementing single-deductibles;...
Feb 7 2005 // Oklahoma lawmakers previously announced that workers’ compensation would figure prominently in this year’s legislative session. So far they are backing up their words with action, as a number of bills have...
Feb 7 2005 // The Association of California Insurance Companies is fighting on two fronts against a proposed Dept. of Insurance regulation that would unfairly force many Californians to pay more than they should for homeowners...
Feb 7 2005 // For the first time, California now mandates that employers with 50 or more employees provide sexual harassment training to their supervisors.On Sept. 29, 2004, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law a statute that...
Feb 6 2005 // A proposed $168 million shareholder lawsuit settlement by 18 former Enron Corp. directors who oversaw the company ahead of its 2001 flameout received preliminary approval from a Texas judge Friday, along with two other...
Feb 4 2005 // Former insurance studies research fellow and strategic public affairs counsel, Robert Detlefsen, Ph.D., has joined the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) as director of public policy.Detlefsen will...
Feb 4 2005 // Aiming to bring common sense back to Oklahoma’s legal system, reduce health care costs for citizens and create a stronger economic climate, Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives Todd Hiett unveiled details...