All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
May 16 2003 // The Alaska Senate’s recent passage of legislation that would restrict insurers’ use of credit information came after lengthy negotiations among all interested parties, but still falls short of enabling insurers...
May 15 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc., issued a bulletin “imploring lawmakers in Albany to end the stalemate that threatens to deny tens of thousands of New Yorkers access to home and commercial...
May 15 2003 // The European Union Parliament in Strasbourg has passed what could be a far reaching directive, mandating that whoever causes environmental pollution will be responsible for the costs of cleaning it up.Part of the proposed...
May 15 2003 // The burden skyrocketing medical liability costs are placing on America’s health care providers will not be eased by an amendment that would provide tax credits to hospitals and physicians in both low- and high-risk...
May 14 2003 // Tort reform was reportedly the major accomplishment of the 2003 Idaho legislative session. The session lasted a record 118 days due to a standoff between the Governor and legislators over the raising of certain taxes to...
May 14 2003 // Thousands of patients, physicians and other supporters of medical liability reform gathered in Chicago’s Daley Plaza to urge federal lawmakers to fix an out-of-control legal system that is seriously threatening...
May 14 2003 // The Louisiana Surplus Lines Association is urging its members to keep the pressure on state lawmakers to pass House Bill 1476, which would exempt certain surplus lines insurers from a decades old, largely un-enforced law...
May 14 2003 // Legislation that should speed up the repair process for insured vehicles by clarifying that insurance companies can retrieve automobiles from towing yards was signed into law last week, according to the National...
May 14 2003 // Missouri Department of Insurance (MDI) Director Scott B. Lakin today said the state must act quickly to reverse a 2002 court ruling that has seriously disrupted Missouri’s medical malpractice market.Under the January...
May 13 2003 // The Personal Insurance Federation of California (PIFC) opposes SB 850 by Senator Deborah Ortiz, a bill, notes PIFC, that will pile on more regulation to an already overly regulated insurance system in the state. Dan...