All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 10 2001 // John Latham will soon step aside as National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO) president making room for Tap Johnson, Jr. Before his exit, he agreed to spend a few minutes with Insurance Journal to...
Sep 10 2001 // I think more and more folks are getting comfortable at least to the point of neutrality now.”That is one insurance industry spokesman’s take on AB 1193, a bill that would prohibit insurance companies from...
Sep 5 2001 // For the moment the implementation of the changes in insurance regulations contained in regulation 68 issued by the New York Insurance Department have taken effect. Last Friday The State Supreme Court in Manhattan blocked...
Sep 3 2001 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) says a long-anticipated General Accounting Office (GAO) report on state regulatory initiatives confirms the association’s position that while state...
Sep 3 2001 // The Texas Legislature authorized insurance-by-the-mile-based auto insurance coverage during this year’s session with the passage of House Bill (HB) 45 and the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) is now hard at work...
Sep 3 2001 // Tapley O. Johnson, Jr., incoming president of the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO) and chairman of the annual convention, expects some 2,200 attendees at the 27th Annual Convention in San...
Sep 3 2001 // When John Latham steps down as president of the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO) in San Antonio later this month, Tapley O. Johnson, Jr., will take on the office as incoming president and...
Sep 3 2001 // John Latham will step aside as National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO) president later this month making room for Tap Johnson, Jr. Before his exit, he agreed to spend a few minutes with...
Sep 3 2001 // Rule makers over at TDI are huddling these days trying to decide how best to promul-gate regulations for the pending implementation of private passenger auto insurance by-the- mile for Texas drivers. The measure was born...
Aug 31 2001 // Inclusion of health information in a proposed state regulation in Iowa on consumer privacy could cause confusion and frustration for consumers and force agents to comply with two different privacy standards plus add to...
Aug 31 2001 // According to the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), California Assembly members are poised to vote on a bill that would “hamstring” insurers’ ability to conduct investigations when they...
Aug 28 2001 // The battle over New Jersey’s auto insurance rates and regulations, which began when State Farm Indemnity, the largest writer in the State, announced its intention to withdraw from the market, continues to rage as the...
Aug 27 2001 // Overregulation in the auto insurance industry may be an accident that has already happened in some states; but regulators can look to other states as examples of how regulatory requirements can be uniform and yet flexible...
Aug 23 2001 // The Independent Insurance Agents Association of New York voiced its opposition to any changes in the system of state regulation of insurers in an open letter, which takes issue with proposals supported by the American...
Aug 21 2001 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) applauded San Diego Superior Court Judge Ronald Styn for his recent decision to uphold the use of video cameras to catch red-light runners. AIA cautioned opponents of red-light...
Aug 20 2001 // During the last hard market, much of corporate America wasted little time in stepping up the search for risk transfer alternatives to traditional commercial insurance. The current hard market appears to be no different if...
Aug 17 2001 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner M. Diane Koken announced the Insurance Department has finalized regulations protecting the financial privacy of Pennsylvania insurance consumers. With this new regulation, insurance...
Aug 15 2001 // According to the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), a consumer privacy regulation proposed by the Missouri Insurance Department is contrary to state law because a third party claimant provision goes...
Aug 13 2001 // The New York Insurance Department is taking a major step to help reduce insurance fraud by adopting a regulation requiring speedier processing of injury claims after an auto accident, according to the NAII. According to...
Aug 13 2001 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) has joined the National Coalition on Ergonomics in submitting comments to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), urging the federal agency to base examination of...