All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 3 2003 // The American Insurance Association issued a bulletin noting that the New Hampshire legislature has passed an insurance regulatory modernization bill (HB 684) that “will provide benefits to consumers and insurers...
Jun 2 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers has issued an announcement indicating that a final Delaware Department of Insurance regulation governing property/casualty insurers’ use of credit-based insurance scores that will go...
May 30 2003 // Reformed state regulation of insurance is the most desirable course for the future according to a National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) speaker at a media briefing on “An Optional Federal...
May 30 2003 // Four California Insurance Commissioners and the California Supreme Court reportedly agree – the use of territory as a factor in determining automobile insurance rates is fair and equitable under Proposition 103...
May 29 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers has issued a bulletin commenting on its recent filing of an amicus brief, which opposes a New Jersey appeals court’s conclusion that wrongful death and survival...
May 29 2003 // The Texas insurance market may continue to experience serious affordability and availability issues if lawmakers cannot find an answer to the state’s insurance crisis that encourages competition and more choices for...
May 29 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers praised the New Hampshire Senate on passing H.B. 684, an insurance regulatory modernization bill that the NAII said “will make it easier for insurers and consumers to...
May 28 2003 // Late last week, Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, introduced legislation to reform asbestos litigation. The “Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution (‘FAIR’) Act of 2003” (S. 1125) is intended to create a...
May 28 2003 // The Texas House of Representatives passed its version of Senate Bill 14, legislation that addresses regulation of residential property and commercial and personal automobile insurance. According to the Alliance of American...
May 28 2003 // The Plan Manual of the New York Auto Insurance Plan has recently been updated to conform with Insurance Department regulations, adopted last November, which require insurers upon the written request of an insured, and upon...
May 27 2003 // In a move insurance groups say will prohibit unfair competition in the state’s workers’ compensation insurance market, the Minnesota Legislature has recently taken action to prohibit state workers’...
May 27 2003 // Texas insurance companies have paid out just under $4 billion for mold claims in the past three years. According to the Insurance Council of Texas, an insurance trade association, mold claims have represented a larger...
May 27 2003 // In the final hours of the 2003 Missouri legislative session lawmakers pushed through a tort reform bill designed to overturn the effects of a devastating court case that is largely responsible for sharp increases in...
May 27 2003 // New Hampshire Insurance Department Commissioner Paula Rogers, the keynote speaker at the Professional Insurance Agents of New Hampshire Inc.’s annual conference held at the Marriott Courtyard and Grappone Conference...
May 22 2003 // The Bermuda-based AlphaStar Insurance Group Limited (the successor company to Stirling Cooke Brown) reported that it had received a notification from the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Department on May 21 that the Company...
May 19 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers, the Alliance of American Insurers and the American Insurance Association all had favorable comments on the passage of New Jersey’s Auto Insurance Reform Act. (See...
May 19 2003 // On Friday the New Jersey General Assembly unanimously approved The Automobile Insurance Competition and Choice Act (S-63/A-2625), a measure designed to correct “years of politically influenced auto insurance...
May 19 2003 // A Montana bill that would have established reasonable and clear guidelines for the use of credit scoring in insurance underwriting and rating is dead, reportedly due in large part to disagreements between the insurance...
May 19 2003 // With California’s workers’ compensation market in a tailspin, Sacramento’s legislators, the governor and the state insurance commissioner are pulling out all the stops to repair a system that’s...
May 16 2003 // Maine has become the first New England state to send legislation to the governor that follows the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) credit-based insurance model. The NCOIL model or a form of the model...