All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 24 2002 // According to the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), companion bills severely restricting insurers’use of credit-based insurance scores have been introduced in the Washington State House and Senate....
Jan 23 2002 // The New Hampshire Supreme Court’s January 11 decision has effectively overturned a decision made in 1999, that allowed an injured employee to collect both workers compensation benefits and sue for damages under the...
Jan 22 2002 // According to the Washington Post, insurance executives told state regulators in Washington, D.C., last week that minus federal help, it could be months or years until they can provide terrorism coverage. They added...
Jan 22 2002 // The Utah Insurance Department is proposing to change its privacy regulation so that a third party involved in an insurance claim will be classified as a consumer rather than a customer of the insurer. “Without this...
Jan 17 2002 // Congressman Michael G. Oxley, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, will address 800 independent insurance agents and brokers at the 26th Annual Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA) National...
Jan 17 2002 // State legislators are expected to be asked to remedy an Alaska Supreme Court ruling that held personal umbrella policies are auto liability policies and therefore must offer uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage.The...
Jan 16 2002 // According to the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), Ohio insurers are poised to actively participate in the 2002 Ohio Legislative session, during which insurance issues such as tort reform, credit and...
Jan 15 2002 // The California Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (CAIFA) and the Professional Insurance Agents (PIA), two Sacramento-headquartered organizations that have worked together for years on legislative and other...
Jan 14 2002 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) has thrown its support behind pending legislation in New Hampshire designed to protect the confidentiality of insurance company audit information from third...
Jan 14 2002 // AccordingSurplus lines insurers may offer hope for businesses to remain insured in those states, like California and New York, that are refusing to allow insurers to exclude terrorism risks in commercial insurance...
Jan 14 2002 // During the first weeks of December, covering the story of whether or not Congress would pass a federal terrorism reinsurance bill before the year 2001 was out was pretty much a waiting game. At the time, most insurance...
Jan 14 2002 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) expressed its approval that HR 2299 (the Department of Transportation [DOT] and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 recently signed by President Bush) provides...
Jan 14 2002 // During the first weeks of December, covering the story of whether or not Congress would pass a federal terrorism reinsurance bill before the end of 2001 was pretty much a waiting game.At the time, most insurance industry...
Jan 10 2002 // Challenges to the use of credit scoring in underwriting and rating, and consumer privacy matters related to the Gramm/Leach/Bliley Act will top the insurance issues considered by state legislatures in 2002, according to a...
Jan 9 2002 // In a move to put together solid evidence of turmoil in the insurance and financial service markets, senior Bush administration officials privately called on business groups, stating it will be hard to win congressional...
Jan 8 2002 // Michigan Governor John Engler signed House Bill 5313, which enacts the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Model Producer Licensing Act and meets the producer licensing reciprocity requirements outlined...
Jan 8 2002 // Lord, Bissell & Brook, a legal firm representing London Market Insurers in a lawsuit filed against the insurers by The B.F. Goodrich Company, announced that a Summit County, Ohio court has granted summary judgment and...
Jan 8 2002 // According to a Jan. 7 Los Angeles Times article, California has refused to allow insurers to adopt terrorism exclusion language, a move which has already been by approximately 20 other states in the wake of Sept. 11.The...
Jan 7 2002 // On Dec. 21, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), introduced the National Insurance Chartering and Supervision Act, providing for the optional federal chartering, regulation and supervision of insurance companies and agencies.The...
Jan 1 2002 // Passage of rate modernization laws and opposition to proposals that would prohibit the use of consumer credit histories to develop insurance scoring models, are on the national state legislative agenda for The National...