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Analysts and CEOs See Eye-to-Eye at P/C Joint Industry Forum

Feb 25 2002 // Analysts and insurance company CEOs who recently addressed the Property/Casualty Insurance Joint Industry Forum in New York City presented remarkably consistent predictions about the future of the insurance industry in the...

What Price Workers’ Comp’

Feb 25 2002 // As was widely expected, on Feb. 15, California Gov. Gray Davis signed a workers’ comp-related bill, AB 749 (Calderon & Burton), which had passed both the state’s House and Senate on Feb. 4. But while it...

Analysts and CEOs See Eye-to-Eye at P/C Joint Industry Forum

Feb 25 2002 // Analysts and insurance company CEOs who recently addressed the Property/Casualty Insurance Joint Industry Forum in New York City presented remarkably consistent predictions about the future of the insurance industry in the...

AIA Salutes Arkansas Task Force

Feb 25 2002 // The Alliance of American Insurers (AIA) commended the Arkansas Insurance Department for creating a task force to gain input from interested parties on what steps the state should take to modernize insurance regulation in...

The Ocean Marine Market: A Unique Animal

Feb 25 2002 // Like life itself, insurance began in the ocean, eventually spawning like the varius land-based descendents we’ve come to know. While those terrestrial variants-auto, homeowners, commercial liability, among others-now...

IIAA Opposing LaFalce Regulation Plan

Feb 22 2002 // A new congressional proposal that would create a direct federal role in insurance regulation is being opposed by the Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA), according to CEO Robert A. Rusbuldt.House Financial...

AIA Hails N.M.’s Next Step toward Insurance Regulation Modernization

Feb 22 2002 // Legislation supported by the American Insurance Association (AIA) to reduce government regulation of commercial insurance in New Mexico was passed by the state legislature. The measure (SB 256), which passed last week with...

Insurers Applaud NAIC for Joining Fight Against OCC Attempt to Preempt State Regulation

Feb 21 2002 // Insurers praised the recent decision by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Functional Regulation Working Group to file an amicus brief against the Office of Comptroller of the...

NAII Says LaFalce Bill would Prove Burdensome

Feb 20 2002 // NAII Senior Vice President for Government Relations Carl Parks has characterized the Insurance Industry Modernization and Consumer Protection Act introduced by Rep. John LaFalce (D-N.Y.), the ranking Democrat on the House...

Insurers Support NAIC’s Draft on Self-Audit Privilege

Feb 20 2002 // National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) draft language on self-audit legislation will help insurers comply with state laws and regulations without opening their doors to frivolous lawsuits or...

IBA West Urges Delay On Privacy Rules

Feb 18 2002 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) should delay new regulations until the Legislature decides whether or not to substantially change state privacy laws, IBA West testified recently.At a public hearing in San...

NAMIC Responds to Rep. LaFalce’s Federal Charter Bill

Feb 15 2002 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) issued a statement in response to legislation introduced by Rep. John LaFalce (D-N.Y.), the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee. His...

Changes to NAIC’s Record Retention Model Could Require Amendments to Existing State Statutes

Feb 14 2002 // Suggested changes to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Market Conduct Record Retention Model Regulation could require that state legislatures amend existing statutes in order to achieve...

IIAA President Focuses on New Policy Position

Feb 13 2002 // The Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA) continues to support state insurance regulation and will be working closely with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) and other allies who support...

Consumer Group Criticizes Calif. Commissioner over Protection Opportunities

Feb 11 2002 // According to the San Francisco Chronicle, California Insurance Commissioner Harry Low is under fire as insurance companies and consumer groups debate a new proposal stating how personal financial information can be sold or...

NAII Says Proposed Calif. Privacy Regulations Need Modifying

Feb 11 2002 // California’s proposed privacy standard includes unauthorized, unnecessary provisions that should be amended so consumers can better understand their rights, and companies can more easily comply with the regulations...

Consumer Organization Files Suit Against Three Auto Insurers

Feb 11 2002 // Harvey Rosenfield’s California-based Foundation for Taxpayers and Consumer Rights (FTCR) filed separate lawsuits on Jan. 9 against three major auto insurers, Geico Corp., SAFECO Corp., and the Automobile Club of...

Before & NAFTA: Open Borders, Long Term Effects on Long-Haul Trucking

Feb 11 2002 // Now that Congress and the Bush administration have struck a deal to pave the way for NAFTA trucking provisions—which the U.S. had been found to be violating for most of last year—the task of actually implementing these...

Too Hot to Handle’

Feb 11 2002 // The controversy swirling around the use of credit-based insurance scores in underwriting auto and homeowners policies is one that Insurance Journal has touched upon with increasing frequency during the past few months. But...

Before & NAFTA: Open Borders, Long Term Effects on Long-Haul Trucking

Feb 11 2002 // Now that Congress and the Bush administration have struck a deal to pave the way for NAFTA trucking provisions—which the U.S. had been found to be violating for most of last year—the task of actually implementing these...