All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 12 2004 // Delaware’s insurance commissioner moved a step closer to dissolving the existing affiliation between CareFirst and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware.Commissioner Donna Lee Williams presided over a hearing to...
Mar 12 2004 // With both agents and residents flocking to Florida, the Sunshine State is on the move. Florida Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher, who oversees insurance matters in the state, recently set aside time to talk with...
Mar 12 2004 // Continuing his push to reform the state’s broken workers’ compensation system, Calif. Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi will travel to New York to meet with executives of some of the country’s largest...
Mar 11 2004 // New York’s Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio announced that New York City will host the 2004 Spring National Meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) from March...
Mar 11 2004 // The Illinois CPA Society will hold a conference on regulatory issues related to reinsurance, including the latest cases, rulings and legislative issues, in Chicago next month. The group said the conference will provide...
Mar 10 2004 // A bill intended to curtail the number of lawsuits filed in Oklahoma passed the state House of Representatives with little opposition but lots of amendments.According to the Oklahoma House media division, a compromise...
Mar 10 2004 // Ohio’s Medical Malpractice Commission has released its interim report (PDF) to the governor and members of the General Assembly, recommending actions that could help stabilize medical malpractice rates in...
Mar 10 2004 // Bills dealing with the surplus lines market are up for consideration in the Illinois legislature this session.“We’re keeping a close eye on two surplus lines bills, one of which resembles a bill vetoed last...
Mar 8 2004 // Last fall at a University of Virginia Law School forum on tort reform, some of the nation’s top tort experts agreed there were no easy answers on how to solve the nation’s longstanding love-hate relationship...
Mar 8 2004 // AP Wire ServiceOhio would create an insurance company to protect doctors and hospitals should private medical malpractice insurers leave the market under a bill approved by the Senate recently. The bill, which passed...
Mar 8 2004 // For the first time in its history, the Young Agents Council (YAC) of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New Jersey (IIABNJ) hosted a “Day in Trenton” on Thursday, March 4, 2004. The day was...
Mar 8 2004 // The Coalition for Affordable and Reliable Health Care (CARH), an organization of health care providers and others dedicated to medical liability reform, recently praised new efforts by U.S. Senate leaders to bring balance...
Mar 8 2004 // While not the biggest state in the southeastern region, West Virginia like all other states has its insurance issues.Insurance Commissioner Jane Cline recently set aside some time to talk with Insurance Journal Southeast...
Mar 5 2004 // A recent ruling by the Connecticut Supreme Court has resulted in what insurers say is “a reasonable solution” to the issue of placing limits on financial compensation for emotional distress. The court...
Mar 5 2004 // Private insurers won a victory this week as legislation to privatize the Utah Workers’ Compensation Fund (WCF) died in the final hours of the 2004 Utah legislative session.However, the defeat of this legislation (SB...
Mar 5 2004 // According to the Washington, D.C. office of the American Insurance Association (AIA), a state insurance regulator’s working group is being pressured by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) to...
Mar 4 2004 // Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.), the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, will speak to members of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA) during their National...
Mar 4 2004 // The Personal Insurance Federation of California (PIFC) announced that the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) has been unanimously approved by the PIFC Board of Directors to become the newest...
Mar 3 2004 // Superior Court Judge Michael Silverstein rejected the state’s motion to have a judge, rather than a six-person jury, hear the case. The first trial against eight corporations that manufactured lead-based paints for...
Mar 3 2004 // A jury will hear the retrial of a landmark lawsuit against the lead paint industry, a Rhode Island judge ruled.Superior Court Judge Michael Silverstein rejected the state’s motion to have a judge, rather than a...