All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 11 2001 // Mailboxes throughout the West have been rapidly filling with literature outlining the “Privacy Policy” of virtually every organization that has ever taken a credit application.As the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act...
Jun 11 2001 // Less than half of the states are likely to have their own privacy rules in place by the July 1 deadline imposed by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), a survey conducted by the National Association of Mutual Insurance...
Jun 11 2001 // In the multi-decade card game that is the Oregon workers’ compensation system, the state Supreme Court trumped the Legislature (and employers) by issuing a unanimous decision that erodes the exclusive remedy...
Jun 8 2001 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) will hold its Summer National Meeting in New Orleans, La., this weekend.After considerable deliberation, the Meetings Coordination Task Force decided against...
Jun 7 2001 // With over a year remaining on the November 2002 deadline, 25 state legislatures have enacted reciprocal producer licensing laws while bills in another 11 states are awaiting the governors’ signatures.The producer...
Jun 6 2001 // As the 2001 Illinois General Assembly session comes to a close, the insurance industry awaits Governor Ryan’s signature on bills addressing producer licensing and the State insurance guaranty fund. The National...
Jun 6 2001 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) is calling on the Massachusetts Legislature’s Joint Health Care Committee to approve an AIA-filed bill (HB 3310) to exempt workers’ compensation programs from new...
Jun 5 2001 // Financial privacy legislation that would have limited services to policyholders and increased costs for insurers failed to reach a majority vote Wednesday in California’s Assembly Banking & Finance Committee.At...
Jun 4 2001 // The country’s smallest, mostly rural, insurance companies would receive a tax benefit if federal legislation introduced recently becomes law.Reps. Jim Nussle, R-Iowa; Jim Ramstad, R-Minn.; and Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D.;...
Jun 4 2001 // It was a new year, a new administration, and a new round of visits on Capitol Hill. Although not as critical a legislation year as past years, the issues remained as pressing as ever, and the 800 attendees of the 25th...
Jun 4 2001 // Wade Spilman was always proud to say that, even though he wasn’t an insurance agent, he spent so much of his life working with, and on behalf of, agents that he often found himself thinking like an agent.IIAT will...
Jun 4 2001 // Mailboxes throughout the West have been rapidly filling with literature outlining the “Privacy Policy” of virtually every organization that has ever taken a credit application.As the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act...
Jun 1 2001 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) noted that the adjournment on May 8th of the Kansas legislature ended a 10-week session marked by several important victories for the associaiton.Earlier in the week, Governor Bill...
May 31 2001 // Maine Governor Angus King signed into law a financial services privacy bill (LD 1640), which is, according to the American Insurance Association (AIA), consistent with the federal privacy regulations in Title V of the...
May 31 2001 // Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura signed insurance producer licensing legislation that appears to meet the reciprocity requirements of the federal Graham-Leach-Bliley (GLB) Act. The Act requires twenty-nine states to pass...
May 30 2001 // Legislation that would provide Superfund liability protection for small-businesses that disposed of municipal solid waste before April 1, 2001 recently passed the U.S. House of Representatives.According to Julie...
May 29 2001 // According to National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC), the country’s smallest, mostly rural, insurance companies would receive a tax benefit if legislation introduced recently in the House of...
May 25 2001 // According to the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), the Pennsylvania Insurance Department’s revised draft regulation on consumer privacy remedies an “opt-out” provision that may have...
May 25 2001 // Agents and Brokers were notified recently that they are required to comply with consumer privacy portions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) despite the failure of a bill in the California legislature. Congress enacted...
May 22 2001 // Less than half of the states are likely to have their own privacy rules in place by the July 1 deadline imposed by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), a survey conducted by the National Association of Mutual Insurance...