All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 6 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers submitted comments to New Jersey’s Department of Banking and Insurance expressing support for the Department’s efforts to move quickly in implementing the auto insurance reform...
Oct 6 2003 // Continuing efforts to put an end to reported spiraling auto insurance premiums by combating fraud, Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher recently joined Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle...
Oct 6 2003 // New financial privacy requirements and legislation aimed at cutting workers’ compensation costs are the two most significant public policy measures that impacted the property/casualty industry during the 2003...
Oct 6 2003 // The NAPSLO Annual Convention took place Sept. 10-14 in San Diego at the San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina. For more Insurance Journal interviews and special video coverage of the NAPSLO Convention, including an...
Oct 6 2003 // The industry “needs leaders that will actually lead,” said outgoing president Andy Homer as he closed the 102nd Insurance and Financial Services Conference of the U.K.’s Chartered Insurance Institute...
Oct 6 2003 // In response to congressional pressure to more effectively regulate insurance at the state level or face federalization, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) unanimously passed its revised statement of...
Oct 6 2003 // The Texas Department of Insurance has begun implementing the directives in Senate Bill 14 to bring balance, stability, fair pricing and a dynamic homeowners insurance market to Texas. Its first step toward that goal...
Oct 6 2003 // The NAPSLO Annual Convention took place Sept. 10-14 in San Diego at the San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina. For more Insurance Journal interviews and special video coverage of the NAPSLO Convention, including an...
Oct 3 2003 // With the lawmakers facing the most serious pressure in years to do something about California’s broken workers’ comp system, the state legislature earlier last month passed a six-bill armada designed to reign...
Oct 1 2003 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher announced that many reforms aimed at increasing the availability and affordability of workers’ compensation go into effect Oct. 1.Gallagher also noted that the...
Sep 30 2003 // Insurance companies using credit-based insurance scores to underwrite and rate insurance coverage in Florida should reportedly be aware that the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) will be taking a tough stance on...
Sep 30 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc., has issued a bulletin congratulating the New York State Insurance Department and the Department of Motor Vehicles on the recent success of the Insurance Information...
Sep 29 2003 // New financial privacy requirements and legislation aimed at cutting workers’ compensation costs are the two most significant public policy measures that impacted the property/casualty insurance industry during the...
Sep 29 2003 // John M. Walker, Jr., Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, has issued a ruling denying Silverstein Properties’ motion for summary judgment in its battle with Swiss Re, Travelers and other...
Sep 29 2003 // The American Insurance Association has issued a bulletin which indicates that New Hampshire’s adoption of Rule INS 3701.01, implementing regulations for safeguarding customer under Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, is...
Sep 29 2003 // In an obvious gaffe in the Sept. 24 recall debate, Arnold Schwarzenegger called the recently passed Workers’ Compensation Reforms, “pre-election bogus.” Senator Richard Alarcón (D-Van Nuys) the Senate...
Sep 26 2003 // A new service developed by Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO) reportedly helps insurers comply with state legal and insurance regulatory requirements.ISO will begin making its new Policywriting Support Forms available...
Sep 25 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers says the Senate Banking Committee’s efforts to maintain a national standard for consumer protection rather than allowing states to enact conflicting provisions is a positive step...
Sep 25 2003 // Professional Insurance Association of New Jersey president John D’Agostino, Jr., CIC, has addressed a letter to Douglas A. Wheeler, Assistant Commissioner of Legislative and Regulatory Affairs for the New Jersey...
Sep 25 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers announced that it has asked the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance to be more specific regarding the methodology contained in a proposed regulation dealing with...