All the headlines from our Politics Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 4 2008 // The Kansas Senate unanimously approved a flex rating bill, SB 560, supported the insurance industry. The bill now heads to the House.Based on the National Conference of Insurance Legislators’ (NCOIL) Flex-Rating...
Mar 3 2008 // Freshman Sen. Michael Watson knows the sting of rising insurance costs on the hurricane-battered Mississippi Gulf Coast.Watson said after Hurricane Katrina struck more than two years ago, he lost his home’s wind...
Feb 28 2008 // The West Virginia Senate has agreed to help cities and towns with their police and firefighter pension funds, partly by reversing a recent tax break on consumer insurance costs.The state would restore a 1 percent surcharge...
Feb 22 2008 // The fines and prison time that repeat drunken drivers face would hinge on how much alcohol they have in their bodies under a measure that received key approval Wednesday in the South Carolina Senate.Senators also decided...
Feb 15 2008 // In a written statement Tuesday, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford reacted to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s refusal to strip harmful amendments from the DUI bill:“We knew going in that some on this Senate...
Feb 14 2008 // An Oklahoma Republican House leader said he will return a $5,000 campaign contribution from a donor who sought legislation that would have helped insurance companies tied to the donor’s family.House Majority Leader...
Feb 13 2008 // The first major rewrite of Pennsylvania’s 1961 mine safety law received unanimous approval from the state Senate this week, but the mine workers union wants the House to make additions to it.Under the current draft,...
Feb 11 2008 // The Alabama Senate is ready to raise the minimum amount of auto liability insurance that Alabamians must buy.The Senate voted 33-0 on Jan. 7 for a bill that would increase the limits for the first time since 1983....
Feb 10 2008 // With the 2008 legislative sessions now in full swing, many states are taking another look at the issue of insurers using credit scoring to underwrite or rate auto or homeowners insurance. Insurance trade groups are...
Feb 10 2008 // The Bush administration wants to limit the situations where drug companies can change warning labels when they know of unsafe conditions without waiting for government approval.But Democrats charge that the recent proposal...
Feb 7 2008 // California State Compensation Insurance Fund President Janet Frank and Board Chair Jeanne Cain testified Wednesday at an informational hearing of the Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee that was held to review...
Feb 6 2008 // After the Florida Senate Select Committee on Property Insurance Accountability heard testimony from The Hartford and Florida Farm Bureau Tuesday, Sen. Steve Geller, D- Hallandale Beach, said the final group of the day,...
Feb 5 2008 // Referring to what he felt were Allstate Insurance executives’ evasive answers to questions posed by Florida senators on Monday, Sen. Bill Posey, R-Rockledge, said he hadn’t seen so much bobbing and weaving...
Feb 1 2008 // Insurance groups are criticizing passage of Senate Bill 259 by the Wisconsin Senate late on Thursday, Jan. 31st. Senate Bill 259 would forbid insurers from considering information in an individual’s credit report for...
Feb 1 2008 // The Virginia Senate this week finally passed its bill to repeal high fees on bad drivers by resolving a partisan impasse over how to rebate fees courts already imposed.The 39-0 vote marks the first passage by the House or...
Jan 31 2008 // A bill providing $12 million over three years to help flood and tornado damaged rural communities rebuild gained first-round approval Tuesday in the Senate. A final vote of approval sends the bill to the House. Starting in...
Jan 30 2008 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) recently announced that it is opposing legislation scheduled for a vote by Wisconsin Senate Thursday, Jan. 31st, that would prohibit insurers from using...
Jan 25 2008 // The Bush administration wants to limit the situations where drug companies can change warning labels when they know of unsafe conditions without waiting for government approval.But Democrats charge that the recent proposal...
Jan 18 2008 // Defying White House veto threats, the Democratic-controlled House this week passed sweeping mine safety legislation aimed at preventing future underground disasters like the one that took nine lives last year at Crandall...
Jan 18 2008 // A Senate committee is moving quickly on a proposal to help flood- and tornado-damaged communities rebuild homes. The Ways and Means Committee voted Monday to sponsor the proposal. It would provide $12 million over three...