All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 20 2004 // The current Kansas Insurance Department regulation as well as a proposed bulletin on the use of credit-based insurance scores significantly alters the Kansas Insurance Score Act, one of 20 state laws based on the NCOIL...
Sep 20 2004 // Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently signed into law AB 2866, legislation that requires individuals and companies convicted of workers’ compensation insurance fraud to be posted on the Web, according to the Gilroy...
Sep 20 2004 // In the early 1960s, life in the United States was lived at a slower pace. Transportation and communication required more time (and patience) and employees were more inclined to trust employers on issues relating to...
Sep 20 2004 // But Not Everyone Thinks Renewing the Federal Backstop is a Good IdeaRegardless of whether George W. Bush is re-elected or John Kerry moves into the White House, the property/casualty insurance industry appears to have a...
Sep 20 2004 // The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) says it is encouraged by the discussion draft of a bill that provides a “road map” for insurance regulatory reform. The draft of the State...
Sep 20 2004 // The U.K.’s Chartered Insurance Institute is gearing up for this year’s Insurance & Financial Services Conference, which will take place in Birmingham, Sept. 29-Oct.1.In advance of the conference the CII...
Sep 20 2004 // The Insurance Bureau of Canada will be hosting its 4th annual Regulatory Affairs Symposium on Thursday, November 4, 2004 from 8:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (luncheon included) at the Toronto Sheraton Centre Hotel. An IBC bulletin...
Sep 20 2004 // When the outgoing president of the National Association of Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO), Jim Griffith, founded Princeton Risk Managers in 1974, organizers of the surplus lines association were convening in Florida to...
Sep 20 2004 // Polizzi Prepares to Take the Reins at Orlando ConventionThirty years ago a small group of surplus lines professionals met in Miami Beach, Fla., to form what would be known today as the National Association of Surplus Lines...
Sep 20 2004 // First RespondersOnce upon a time, the excess and surplus line market was the safety valve of the insurance industry—the more lightly regulated, more financially shaky little brother to the admitted market. It was said to...
Sep 20 2004 // This is the second in a series of articles on the Asia insurance marketplace. The next article in this series will focus on Japan and will appear in an October issue of Insurance Journal.An ancient Indian parable tells the...
Sep 20 2004 // Regardless of whether President George W. Bush is re-elected or John Kerry moves into the White House, the property/casualty insurance industry appears to have a good chance of getting its wishes when it comes to extending...
Sep 20 2004 // In a code orange New York, the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions (IAIABC) took a fresh look at terrorism and its relation to workers’ compensation at its recent 90th Annual...
Sep 20 2004 // Surplus line producers have benefited greatly from the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Since the act’s passage in 1999, most states have amended their laws to allow for nonresident licenses for surplus line producers. These...
Sep 17 2004 // The U.K.’s Chartered Insurance Institute announced that its newly-formed Faculty of Claims is to host a session at the UK Insurance and Financial Services Conference, which will be held at the International...
Sep 17 2004 // After months of partisan and special interest stalemate over medical malpractice reform in the Illinois General Assembly, Gov. Rod Blagojevich has appointed a former judge and hospital lawyer to mediate ongoing...
Sep 15 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America told regulators that it shares the goal of improving and modernizing the insurance regulatory system and indicated that it views the State Modernization and Regulatory...
Sep 14 2004 // The California Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is on track to meet its Nov. 1 deadline for adopting emergency regulations that will allow medical provider networks to begin...
Sep 14 2004 // On Tuesday, by a vote of 229-174, the House of Representatives favorably approved H.R. 4571, the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act of 2004.H.R. 4571 would amend Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to penalize...
Sep 14 2004 // Lobbyists for the American Insurance Association recently made their case for federal over state regulation of insurance before the House Committee on Financial Services by presenting a list that included the following:•...