All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 15 2003 // As you will probably notice from this list, it is not scientific, preferential, etc. We retraced news coverage of this past year and tried to come to an agreement on who made headlines. We likely left off a few...
Dec 15 2003 // The major changes Congress has in mind for the National Flood Insurance Program are still on the table, as both the House and Senate voted to extend the program as is for only three months to allow time to hammer out an...
Dec 15 2003 // Except for the future of insurance regulation, there was surprising unanimity on leading issues facing the property and casualty insurance industry among both panelists and guests at the Fifteenth Annual Executive...
Dec 15 2003 // “Dirty bomb” was the phrase of the day at the All Industry Day held Nov. 25 in Dallas—perhaps not so surprising, given the fact the conference was titled, “Confronting Terrorism, Not If But...
Dec 15 2003 // The major changes Congress has in mind for the National Flood Insurance Program are still on the table, as both the House and Senate voted to extend the program as is for only three months to allow time to hammer out an...
Dec 15 2003 // Except for the future of insurance regulation, there was surprising unanimity on leading issues facing the property and casualty insurance industry among both panelists and guests at the Fifteenth Annual Executive...
Dec 15 2003 // As you will probably notice from this list, it is not scientific, preferential, etc. We retraced news coverage of this past year and tried to come to an agreement on who made headlines. We likely left off a few...
Dec 12 2003 // President George W. Bush signed into the law the “National Flood Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2004,” to extend the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) without any changes, until March 31,...
Dec 12 2003 // The Alaska Division of Insurance’s proposed regulations regarding privacy of consumer financial and health information, while improved from the original proposal, are still not in sync with state law, according to...
Dec 12 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers is encouraging Ohio lawmakers to seize the momentum and act quickly on legislation dealing with tort reform and asbestos litigation reform. The Ohio House on Thursday approved HB 292,...
Dec 12 2003 // State regulators across the country may soon have a definitive source of guidance on market analysis, as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Market Analysis & Consumer Affairs (D)...
Dec 11 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers has issued a bulletin, which indicates that New Jersey’s auto insurance market, which it described as “once the nation’s poster child for the dangers of...
Dec 9 2003 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has presented its most prestigious individual award to Rosanne Mead, Assistant Iowa Insurance Commissioner, and Fred Nepple, General Counsel in the Wisconsin...
Dec 9 2003 // David Winston has been named vice president of federal affairs for the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) and will be located in the association’s Washington, D.C. office.Winston brings more...
Dec 8 2003 // Following a hearing, at which numerous industry representatives testified (See IJ Web site Dec.5), the New Jersey Senate on Friday, in a 5 to 1 vote, refused to send S-2533, the “verbal threshold” bill to the...
Dec 8 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers is urging the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) to advance their timetable for getting all 50 states to modernize their regulatory processes from the current 2006-2008...
Dec 8 2003 // During the Winter National Meeting in Anaheim, members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) elected regulators from South Carolina, North Dakota and Oregon to serve as the association’s 2004...
Dec 5 2003 // Missouri’s House Bill 600 has taken effect, requiring persons with professional licenses to file and pay their state taxes or face license revocation.Affected under the legislation are Missouri Department of...
Dec 5 2003 // Representatives of the National Association of Independent Insurers, the Alliance of American Insurers and the American Insurance Association voiced unanimous opposition to changes in New Jersey’s “verbal...
Nov 25 2003 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has lowered its counterparty credit and senior debt ratings on PMA Capital Corp. (PMACA) to ‘B’ from ‘BB-.’ It also said it has...