All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 21 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers and the Coalition for Auto Insurance Competition both hailed the passage by the full New Jersey Senate, by a vote of 30-4-7, of legislation aimed at reforming what the Alliance called...
Mar 21 2003 // Responding to numerous inquiries concerning the availability of workers’ compensation insurance from the California State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF), Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi, backed by...
Mar 20 2003 // The American Insurance Association commended the New Jersey Senate Commerce Committee “for its leadership and bipartisan action in passing historic legislation (Senate Committee Substitute/Senate 63) aimed at...
Mar 18 2003 // Acknowledging that his state has yet to enact strong measures to combat insurance fraud, Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter A. Bell released the following statement in support of such anti-fraud...
Mar 18 2003 // St. Patrick’s Day in Trenton NJ took on a decidedly political character as supporters of proposals to change the state’s restrictive automobile insurance regulations gathered at the state capital both inside...
Mar 17 2003 // Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst and Senator Troy Fraser of Horseshoe Bay, chair of the Senate Business and Commerce Committee, have come out in favor of regulating insurers’ use of credit...
Mar 17 2003 // Acting to provide greater protection for consumers who file insurance claims, Calif. Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has proposed amendments to the Fair Claims Settlement Practices (FCSP) regulations, which govern...
Mar 17 2003 // “Virginia’s 2003 legislative session ended with the softening of many bills that could have made it much more difficult for insurance companies to conduct business in the state,” said an announcement from...
Mar 14 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. has updated its online Agency Handbook to include the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance’s newly adopted and amended regulations implementing the...
Mar 12 2003 // With some regulators reportedly intent on removing personal lines regulatory modernization from their agenda, the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) offered to lead an industry effort to review personal...
Mar 11 2003 // State lawmakers around the country have been busy introducing a variety of bills aimed at the issue of mold, how it is addressed by society, and how it is covered by insurers.“We are currently tracking nearly 30...
Mar 10 2003 // The Illinois Appelate Court has ruled that insurance brokerage giant Aon Corp. must pay $22 million to the family of man killed in a plane crash helmed by the company’s corporate pilot, according to Crain’s...
Mar 10 2003 // The decision by the New York Court of Appeals to hear the appeal of the Medical Society of New York (MSSNY) and the state’s trial lawyers, challenging the validity of Regulation 68 (See IJ Website Feb. 28), has...
Mar 10 2003 // While the NAII was fighting to uphold Regulation 68 against a legal challenge (See previous article), the Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. issued a letter to each sponsor of a bill, S.1277/A.269, which...
Mar 10 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey has released a new “Agency handbook” designed to help agents implement the “new and amended regulations” contained in the Producer Licensing Act.The...
Mar 10 2003 // As promised, the 78th Texas Legislature is on a roll with insurance reform, with one bill having been signed into law and many more in committees or on their way to the House and Senate floors. Among the proposed...
Mar 10 2003 // December is the most dreaded month for a surplus lines broker. In addition to all the 12/31 and 1/1 renewals, one must deal with underwriters and employees having the gall to go on vacation, holiday parties, holiday...
Mar 7 2003 // Recent results of a Wall Street Journal Online/Harris Interactive® Health-Care Poll showed that more than half (58 percent) of adults in America favor new legislation to limit the costs of medical liability and reduce the...
Mar 7 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers (AAI) is applauding state commissioners attending the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) spring meeting in Atlanta for initiating a project aimed at increasing...
Mar 7 2003 // Florida lawmakers must act on Governor Jeb Bush’s call for medical liability system reforms—including a $250,000 cap on non-economic damages—in order to end a crisis that is driving up healthcare costs and...