All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 5 2003 // Diane Colborn, vice president of the Personal Insurance Federation of California (PIFC), told the Assembly Insurance Committee earlier today that the most significant factor in recent homeowners insurance premium increases...
Feb 4 2003 // Last year’s workers’ compensation benefit increase bill (AB 749) eliminated the state’s loss control certification unit as of Dec. 31, 2002, replacing it with a new “Worker Occupational Safety and...
Feb 3 2003 // The Colorado House of Representatives voted this week to protect consumers from unjustified lawsuits, which are driving up the cost of homes, medical care and insurance. In addition, the House Business Affairs Committee...
Feb 3 2003 // Further burdening insurers with onerous state-specific privacy requirements will only hurt the California insurance market with no corresponding benefit to consumers, a representative of the Alliance of American Insurers...
Jan 31 2003 // Texas lawmakers introduced two bills in Texas legislature that aim to control rising insurance rates in the state.Texas State Senator Troy Fraser of Horseshoe Bay announced the filing of Senate Bill 310, requiring...
Jan 30 2003 // Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal announced the addition of five prominent lawyers to its Insurance Group, enhancing its national insurance regulatory, transactional and reinsurance practices and its insurance...
Jan 30 2003 // A judge in Austin, Texas ordered a London- and Canada-based organization to stop marketing boat and other watercraft insurance in Texas without a license and to pay a $1 million fine imposed last year by Commissioner Jose...
Jan 30 2003 // Further burdening insurers with onerous state-specific privacy requirements will only hurt the California insurance market with no corresponding benefit to consumers, a representative of the Alliance of American Insurers...
Jan 27 2003 // Due to the restricted coverages available in the market today, risk retention groups (RRGs) have experienced a significant amount of rapid growth over the past year. At a time when the industry is facing what is perhaps...
Jan 27 2003 // Now that the Texas legislative session is underway and the pre-election rhetoric surrounding insurance reform in Texas has moderated, the stage is set for the legislature to make the tough decisions necessary to resolve...
Jan 27 2003 // California Gov. Gray Davis and the Democratic-controlled state Legislature came to agreement on 1,168 bills during the last session, making it the most bills Davis has signed in a single year since taking office in 1999. A...
Jan 27 2003 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America’s (IIABA’s) 27th Annual National Legislative Conference will be held April 2-4 at The Capital Hilton in downtown Washington, D.C. The event will bring...
Jan 24 2003 // The Credit Scoring Working Group of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has adopted a list of options for states to consider when reviewing insurance credit scoring proposals as well as a consumer...
Jan 24 2003 // In a lawsuit filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court recently, Irvine-based Caliber Collision Centers asked the court to compel the Bureau of Automotive Repair to stop engaging in a regulatory practice that is...
Jan 24 2003 // The New York State insurance Department announced that a license has been issued to TSI Insurance Incorporated as a captive insurance company in the state. The new captive, previously incorporated by the Department, will...
Jan 23 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers announced its opposition to HB 329, a bill introduced into the Texas House of Representatives that would create the Mold Assessors and Remediators Act. The act would establish regulations...
Jan 23 2003 // A Montana House bill that would restrain judges from issuing protective orders on private information evokes privacy concerns, compromises parties’ abilities to reach freely negotiated settlements, and increases the...
Jan 22 2003 // Standard & Poor’s issued a bulletin confirming that the primary insurance entities of Germany’s Gerling insurance group “remain on CreditWatch following further discussions with the group’s...
Jan 21 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers has issued a statement strongly supporting the new insurance regulations contained in a Bill introduced last week in the New Hampshire legislature by Rep. John Hunt,...
Jan 20 2003 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) named Ken Marshall, NAMIC’s Industry Knowledge Manager, to the Board of Directors of the Society of Insurance Research (SIR). His term will expire at the...