All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 1 2003 // 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 couple of...
Dec 31 2002 // According to speakers at the Society of Insurance Research’s annual meeting, the strategic challenges confronting insurers include the rapid pace of change, terrorism, asbestos, the need to reform the tort system,...
Dec 30 2002 // Ohio’s Supreme Court has ruled in the case of Ferrando v. Auto Owners that uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage (UM/UIM) may be claimed even in cases where there has been a length delay in notifying the...
Dec 19 2002 // A medical malpractice law passed in West Virginia last year is apparently to blame for an increase in medical malpractice lawsuits against state agencies this year. According to the Charleston Daily Mail, a legislative...
Dec 19 2002 // The the Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. (PIANY) has issued a statement urging the New York State Legislature and Gov. George Pataki to pass legislation to address auto insurance fraud.Both the Assembly...
Dec 18 2002 // Randy Blumer, Wisconsin’s Deputy Comissioner of Insurance, recently received the highest individual honor given by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, the Robert Dineen Award, at its winter meeting...
Dec 17 2002 // Acting within hours of a request for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Property and Casualty Committee adopted a resolution to...
Dec 16 2002 // With his term coming to an end, California Insurance Commissioner Harry Low has finalized some last-minute regulations in the Insurance Code before he hands over the reins to Commissioner-Elect John Garamendi. Some of the...
Dec 16 2002 // The Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation (OCABR) announced the finalization of its new telemarketing regulations, which include changes recommended by the National Association of Independent...
Dec 16 2002 // The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act finally became law Nov. 26 after more than a year of pitched congressional wrangling, and many insurers are finding themselves with remarkably little time in which to comply with the new...
Dec 16 2002 // Who made the most “news” as opposed to the most “noise” in 2002? There were lots of candidates, but the ones we’ve selected usually made news because they faced problems or took initiatives...
Dec 16 2002 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher is a big guy with a mission. In a recent conversation with the Insurance Journal, he spoke of his role as a voice for the industry within the National Association of Insurance...
Dec 16 2002 // Oklahoma Insurance Commis-sioner Carroll Fisher put it best when he recently said, “The best regulator of insurance rates is the consumer. For all the hard work state employees do to regulate insurance companies,...
Dec 16 2002 // Who made the most “news” as opposed to the most “noise” in 2002? There were lots of candidates, but the ones we’ve selected usually made news because they faced problems or took initiatives...
Dec 16 2002 // The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act finally became law Nov. 26 after more than a year of pitched congressional wrangling, and many insurers are finding themselves with remarkably little time in which to comply with the new...
Dec 13 2002 // Holly Saelens, Interim Director of Ohio’s Department of Insurance (ODI), announced the launch of a new “Property & Casualty Product Requirements Locator,” that will provide “a national...
Dec 13 2002 // The California Department of Insurance has announced that California agents must comply with new privacy regulations effective March 24, 2003. The new stipulations will unite the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) with the...
Dec 12 2002 // The Alliance of American Insurers called on the Minnesota Department of Commerce to rescind regulations contained in a series of recently issued documents setting forth procedures and filing instructions for companies...
Dec 11 2002 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens, newly elected president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), reported during a meeting of the Consumer Protection Working Group that the NAIC will...
Dec 10 2002 // The Alliance of American Insurers (AAI) says it is pleased with the initial steps taken by the U.S. Department of the Treasury in the implementation of the terrorism insurance legislation signed by the President...