All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 10 2000 // Clark Kelso, who took the reins as California’s insurance commissioner after the July 10 resignation of Chuck Quackenbush, severely criticized the state’s Department of Insurance before the Senate Insurance...
Aug 9 2000 // The Supreme Court of New York recently granted summary judgement in favor of New York Apple Tours Inc. by ruling that the company’s former insurer, TRM International Inc., had wrongfully and unlawfully cancelled NY...
Jul 21 2000 // Taking the National Association of Insurance Commissioner’s regulatory reform agenda before the Congress, NAIC President and Kentucky Insurance Commissioner George Nichols said during Congressional testimony Thursday...
Jul 14 2000 // President Clinton signed legislation yesterday designed to provide compensation to victims of recent New Mexico wildfires. The new bill will affect the owners of more than 400 homes destroyed by fires that were sparked in...
Jul 13 2000 // Legislation to reduce government regulation of commercial insurance in Washington D.C. was approved by the District of Columbia Council. Under the legislation, large commercial risks are exempt from filing requirements for...
Jul 11 2000 // A former Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation attorney will be sworn in today as the department’s new director. Marilyn Shannon McConaghy was executive counsel to the DBR for the last two years and played a...
Jul 11 2000 // States representing more than 86 percent of the American General policyholders that paid race-based life insurance premiums have ratified a multi-million-dollar penalty and restitution settlement negotiated by Florida...
Jul 11 2000 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) filed a friend of the court brief on June 28 asking for a reversal of a California Superior Court ruling related to the case of Lugo v. Allstate Insurance Company....
Jul 10 2000 // The New Jersey legislature recessed for the summer without voting on major legislation that would allow new lawsuits. The New Jersey trial bar is supporting the bill, which would create a situation similar to that...
Jun 27 2000 // The Washington State Supreme Court’s unanimous decision affirming a lower court’s ruling that said insurers need not include all possible reasons for denying a claim when determining if they have a duty to...
Jun 26 2000 // Chalk up 2000 as another year for making great strides in passing legislation relating to deregulation. Since 1997, 21 states have passed laws deregulating commercial lines to one degree or another. “In 2000, we had...
Jun 23 2000 // A California Superior Court judge decided Wednesday to reconsider arguments in the Department of Insurance’s case to protect confidential market conduct exams released last year by the Senate.Sacramento Superior...
Jun 22 2000 // A California judge has frozen the assets of the California Research and Assistance Fund until lawsuits on its disposition are resolved.Affirming an earlier tentative ruling, Sacramento Superior Judge John Lewis granted...
Jun 19 2000 // An electronic signature bill approved by Congress last week contains important liability safeguards for independent agents according to the Independent Insurance Agents of America.S. 761—the Electronic Signatures in...
Jun 16 2000 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Neil D. Levin announced yesterday that the Department has filed a notice of intent to appeal a June 9 decision striking down Regulation 68 on a procedural technical basis.The filing of...
Jun 14 2000 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners, assembled near Orlando for its summer conference, has named Florida Insurance Commissioner Bill Nelson to lead nationwide settlement negotiations as the primary...
Jun 13 2000 // Stricter no-fault auto insurance regulations in New York state were overturned yesterday by a judge who ruled that state insurance officials had not considered the impact on injured people and the doctors who treat...
Jun 13 2000 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) at the Summer National Meeting in Orlando yesterday approved a resolution to remedy the previous use of race as a criteria in underwriting and to...
Jun 12 2000 // A final electronic signature legislation agreement was struck last week by House and Senate conference committee negotiators. It is expected to easily pass in both chambers before being sent to President Clinton for his...
Jun 12 2000 // Trolling for new business leads has been the bane of insurance agents for decades. Electronic data mining has eased the pain, but there are many gray areas as the call for consumer privacy grows louder.It was a bet with a...