All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 24 2005 // New Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn announced he will support a bill being introduced that seeks to ban the use of credit scores by insurers in personal lines insurance rating. State Senator Margaret Rose Henry...
Jan 24 2005 // Banks should have an easier time selling insurance in Massachusetts thanks to a recent federal court ruling granting supremacy to federal rules over more restrictive state laws governing banks’ sales of insurance...
Jan 24 2005 // Helen Johnston is an 80-year-old retired pediatrician who hardly considers herself much of a risk for being sued.That’s not how her insurance company sees it, however. Johnston is losing extra coverage she bought...
Jan 24 2005 // While it did not begin boiling over until last October when charges were brought against Marsh, the controversy over brokerage contingent fees has actually been simmering for more than a half dozen years in New York...
Jan 24 2005 // How to Produce Client SeminarsAs we develop our marketing and communications plans for 2005, one of the most effective ways a broker can provide a customized service to its clients is by producing educational seminars on...
Jan 24 2005 // How to produce client seminars that work.As we develop our marketing and communications plans for 2005, one of the most effective ways a broker can provide a customized service to its clients is by producing educational...
Jan 21 2005 // A Virginia Senate committee has endorsed medical malpractice reform legislation that reflects a compromise between Virginia’s doctors and lawyers.The measure does not limit awards for noneconomic damages — a...
Jan 21 2005 // As the Maine Legislature opens its 2005 session, lawmakers are reportedly primarily concerned with tax issues, including a proposal that would tax insurance premiums to fund retirement health insurance for police and...
Jan 20 2005 // National Association of Insurance Commissioners efforts to address concerns surrounding broker compensation continue to be over-broad, going beyond the single problem that has been defined, according to comments filed...
Jan 20 2005 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matthew Denn planned to reveal a new regulation today that will require insurance companies to provide prominent annual disclosures to each homeowner’s policyholder of where there...
Jan 20 2005 // Wording in National Association of Insurance Commissioners compensation disclosure model legislation that could negatively affect the long-standing practice of contingent commissions was discussed in Atlanta by Georgia...
Jan 19 2005 // The Dublin-based consulting firm Research and Markets has announced the addition of a report on “Financial Services Regulators in the Middle East and Africa” to their offering.“This book provides a...
Jan 19 2005 // Will Congress wrest insurance regulation from state control? As Congress prepares to debate the matter, big players in the insurance industry are lobbying for the regulatory sea change. But it’s a move that could...
Jan 18 2005 // Former property and casualty claims adjuster, subrogation analyst and insurance attorney, Christian Rataj, has joined the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) as state affairs manager for the Western...
Jan 18 2005 // As the coalition of industry associations, spearheaded by the American Agents Alliance, continues to dig its heels in the sand against a California Department of Insurance assault on brokers and agents, the...
Jan 18 2005 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America has scheduled its 29th annual National Legislative Conference for April 20-22 at The Grand Hyatt Hotel in downtown Washington, D.C.The event, which always features...
Jan 17 2005 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn, State Senator David Sokola and State Representative Donna Stone have unveiled bi-partisan legislation which will allow the state to increase enforcement of its uninsured motorist...
Jan 17 2005 // The Association of British Insurers has issued a bulletin indicating that regulation by the Financial Services Authority, which officially began on Friday (See IJ Web site Jan. 14), “will build on existing consumer...
Jan 17 2005 // Nationwide driver’s license regulation changes which took place as a result of the death of a teenage driver in Florida have resulted in a reduction in the number of automobile deaths caused by teenage drivers...
Jan 16 2005 // California’s workers’ compensation costs are going down, even if Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s budget proposal includes big increases in the state’s costs for the program.The Republican...