All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 22 2004 // A flurry of special dividends and a series of rate reductions from auto insurers, along with increased competition and new regulations adopted by the New Jersey insurance department, are helping to reshape the...
Nov 22 2004 // Perhaps like you, I have been fascinated by the press coverage our industry has received lately–probably more individual stories in prominent newspapers than at any other point in the last 25 years, all thanks to the...
Nov 22 2004 // David Snyder, vice president and assistant general counsel for the American Insurance Association (AIA) was part of a support team that went to Amman, Jordan, in June 2004 to assist the efforts of the group that included...
Nov 22 2004 // Perhaps like you, I have been fascinated by the press coverage our industry has received lately–probably more individual stories in prominent newspapers than at any other point in the last 25 years, all thanks to the...
Nov 22 2004 // The California Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has received approval from the Office of Administrative Law on the first set of regulations implementing SB 899, workers’ compensation reforms passed by...
Nov 22 2004 // Voters in Colorado Nov. 2 overwhelmingly turned back an effort to amend the state’s constitution and gut a construction defects reform measure passed by the legislature last year. In a victory for consumers and the...
Nov 22 2004 // With the latest insurance industry market conduct problem, consumers once again see not only the failure of state insurance regulation to protect them but the refusal of state insurance regulators to take responsibility...
Nov 17 2004 // A bulletin from the office of lame-duck Illinois Republican Sen. Peter G. Fitzgerald indicates that: “It might be time to use federal antitrust enforcement to ensure that the insurance brokerage industry remains...
Nov 17 2004 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi called for a 2.2 percent reduction pure premium rates for workers’ compensation insurance in a Nov. 17 conference call to the media.“My current advice to the...
Nov 16 2004 // “In times of disaster the insurance industry is supposed to shine, and your industry did,” Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter A. Bell said during a Tuesday afternoon panel discussion at the Society of...
Nov 16 2004 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Greg Serio, speaking on behalf of the nation’s state insurance commissioners, will tell a Senate subcommittee today that state regulators play a critical role in guaranteeing a...
Nov 16 2004 // The nation’s largest independent insurance agency group will go before a Senate subcommittee in Washington today to attempt to put some distance between large insurance brokers facing allegations of illegal...
Nov 16 2004 // Despite charging that too many state insurance regulators have become “industry captives,” Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is rejecting calls for federal intervention in the regulation of...
Nov 16 2004 // New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer signaled today he believes investigations of the insurance industry have only “scratched the surface” thus far of questionable activities and that additional probes are...
Nov 16 2004 // An insurance broker would be required to obtain written approval from a customer before receiving any compensation from an insurer for a piece of business under a model compensation disclosure act unveiled by the...
Nov 15 2004 // After narrowly losing in the Nov. 2 election, Oregon doctors who pushed for a cap on jury awards in malpractice lawsuits are preparing to take their fight to another arena: the 2005 Legislature.The physicians won’t...
Nov 14 2004 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry recently sent a message to State Farm and Farmers insurance companies, who have successfully fought state-ordered rate rollbacks for homeowners policies.“I’m not happy at all when...
Nov 11 2004 // Georgia and West Virginia are two southeast states that could reconsider their earlier approval of the Anthem Inc./WellPoint merger, after California’s $265 million concessions package in California.Seven other...
Nov 11 2004 // New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey has signed into law a measure sought by agents and insurers that removes troublesome provisions from the Contractor’s Registration Act.The amendments fix a provision that required...
Nov 10 2004 // A flurry of special dividends and a series of rate reduction announcements from auto insurers, coupled with increased competition and new regulations adopted by the New Jersey insurance department, are helping to reshape...