All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 6 2005 // The program to reimburse Floridians who were subject to multiple insurance deductibles because their homes were damaged by more than one hurricane in 2004 was launched today by Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom...
Jan 6 2005 // The American Agents Alliance and Western Insurance Agents Association, trade association groups consisting of over 1,500 property and casualty insurance agencies called for the Insurance Commissioner to withdraw his...
Jan 5 2005 // Maine Secretary of State Dan A. Gwadosky is encouraging all Maine motorists and insurance professionals to familiarize themselves with the state’s new law requiring insurers to report cancellation of mandatory...
Jan 5 2005 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Ann Womer Benjamin has named Brent Walls Assistant Director for Policy and Legislation. Wall joins the department from the Office of Criminal Justice Services where he served in the...
Jan 3 2005 // Health care insurer CareFirst has asked the Delaware Supreme Court to overturn an order that dissolved its affiliation with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware. CareFirst attorney Harding Drane Jr. maintained Insurance...
Jan 3 2005 // Bond was denied Dec. 16 for convicted racketeer, fraudster and Chicago insurance broker Michael Segal, who during the court hearing pulled opened his orange prison jumpsuit to show a federal judge a rash he apparently...
Jan 3 2005 // In times of disaster the insurance industry is supposed to shine, and your industry did,” Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter A. Bell commented during a panel discussion at the Society of Insurance Research annual...
Jan 3 2005 // Carriers Eyed as Income SourceSouth Carolina legislators want to make insurance carriers pay for more investigators and prosecutors to fight insurance fraud under a proposal suggested by Rep. Daniel L. Tripp, R-Greenville....
Jan 3 2005 // The fun and games are set to begin in Texas. No, not the Olympics nor the Super Bowl–but the Texas Legislature, of course. The legislature will open its doors Jan. 11 and bill filing started last month. Lobbyists,...
Jan 3 2005 // A Tulsa, Okla.-area legislator plans to take up the mission he began nearly a year ago to change the office of insurance commissioner to one that is appointed rather than elected. State Rep. John Trebilcock, R-Broken...
Jan 3 2005 // The model compensation disclosure measure under consideration by the nation’s state regulators has been met with generally guarded support from agents, brokers and insurers.The Indep-endent Insurance Agents &...
Jan 3 2005 // On Dec. 13, Judge Paul Alvarado issued a tentative ruling affirming that the State Compensation Insurance Fund (State Fund) is subject to the Department of Insurance’s authority under the state’s Risk Based...
Jan 3 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 3 2005 // A summary of the most important legislation affecting the industry in the New YearThe historic recall of Gray Davis and election of Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor of California set the tone for the 2004 legislative...
Jan 3 2005 // The model compensation disclosure measure under consideration by the nation’s state regulators has been met with generally guarded support from agents, brokers and insurers.The Independent Insurance Agents &...
Dec 31 2004 // The Maryland General Assembly, meeting into the early morning hours Thursday, approved a medical malpractice insurance reform package that Gov. Robert Ehrlich said he would veto because of a dispute over a tax on HMO...
Dec 30 2004 // The Schwarzenegger administration has released a sweeping set of regulations aimed at revising how doctors evaluate permanent injuries to workers and how much compensation they are paid.The new regulations, unveiled last...
Dec 30 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America has released a statement, indicating that the action of regulators to delay consideration of one critical section of the proposed amendment to its Producer Licensing...
Dec 29 2004 // Storm clouds are looming over medical liability reform legislation about to be introduced in the 2005 Georgia General Assembly which would make it harder for insurance companies to raise their rates and thus, supposedly...
Dec 29 2004 // Massachusetts lawmakers have passed an insurance fraud bill that targets so-called “runners” who recruit others to participate in staged car accidents to collect the insurance.The bill makes the practice a...