All the headlines from our Politics Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 22 2006 // A Democratic-controlled House would look into insurance industry practices criticized for shifting the financial burden of Hurricane Katrina claims onto the taxpayer, a lawmaker who headed a Katrina task force said...
Oct 18 2006 // Republican state lawmakers face steep hurdles in their attempts to call the Louisiana Legislature into special session early next month an attempt to sidestep Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco, who they say is moving too...
Oct 9 2006 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners President and Maine Insurance Superintendent Alessandro A. Iuppa told a House Financial Services Subcommittee panel last month that strong financial regulation of...
Oct 9 2006 // liability award lawLaw will not be reinstated as they hoped 8 Bad buying habits in N.H.Audit blasts state insurance purchasing and risk management10 Oh, deer it’s that seasonOne insurer is bucking trend of deer...
Oct 9 2006 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners President and Maine Insurance Superintendent Alessandro A. Iuppa told a House Financial Services Subcommittee panel last month that strong financial regulation of...
Oct 2 2006 // U.S. Senator Mel Martinez, R-Fla., has introduced bipartisan legislation to implement a national hurricane research initiative designed to better research, predict and prepare for hurricanes.Martinez crafted the proposal...
Sep 28 2006 // Donald “Dee” Margo was an underdog from the moment he announced plans to run against 10-year incumbent State Sen. Eliot Shapleigh.The 54-year-old insurance company executive is well-funded and well-connected....
Sep 25 2006 // Agriculture groups told a U.S. Senate panel in Texas this month that they want the next farm bill to include disaster relief for farmers and ranchers reeling from billions of dollars lost to the drought.They shared their...
Sep 25 2006 // Agriculture groups told a U.S. Senate panel in Texas this month that they want the next farm bill to include disaster relief for farmers and ranchers reeling from billions of dollars lost to the drought.They shared their...
Sep 25 2006 // Republican candidates for Louisiana insurance commissioner traded attacks in a debate on Sept. 11, leveling accusations of improper use of campaign funds and misuse of legislative perks.James David Cain and Jim Donelon...
Sep 25 2006 // Spitzer’s Republican opponent for governor called the action proof of “the phony nature of many cases pursued by Eliot Spitzer.”News Currents New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has dropped two of six...
Sep 20 2006 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) President and Maine Insurance Superintendent Alessandro A. Iuppa told the House Finanacial Services Subcommittee panel that strong financial regulation of...
Sep 13 2006 // Republican candidates for Louisiana insurance commissioner traded attacks in a debate on Sept. 11, leveling accusations of improper use of campaign funds and misuse of legislative perks.James David Cain and Jim Donelon...
Sep 10 2006 // Days before the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. Senate announced agreement on ports security legislation, hoping to approve bolstered protections before November’s elections to stop nuclear materials...
Aug 29 2006 // Republican U.S. Senate challenger and former Safeco CEO Mike McGavick, in a remarkable confession of what he called his personal and political shortcomings, revealed a drunken driving incident and discussed his divorce, a...
Aug 29 2006 // Independent Insurance Agents of Texas announced that Kenneth Threlkeld, a long-time member of IIAT and founder of Threlkeld & Company Insurance in Tyler, Texas, was named the 2006 Republican of the Year from Texas by...
Aug 27 2006 // Republican state Rep. Juan Zapata said his own party has failed Floridians by not coming up with a solution to the state’s insurance crisis and accused a fellow GOP lawmaker who has had a large role in insurance...
Aug 17 2006 // If money talks, as it so often does in Florida politics, Senate President Tom Lee should be favored to win the Republican nomination in a three-way contest for chief financial officer that’s focusing on who can solve...
Aug 7 2006 // Agents, risk managers and insurers press Congress for long-term TRIA solutionTwo U.S. House subcommittees–the Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Oversights and Investigation, and the Homeland Security...
Aug 7 2006 // News CurrentsTwo U.S. House subcommittees-the Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Oversights and Investigation, and the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk...