Latest AIA Headlines
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AIA Sets Multi-Issue Agenda for NAIC Meeting
Nov 23 2004 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) on Tuesday said that it has a full agenda for the upcoming National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Winter Meeting. Issues of concern to AIA include the...
Insurers Pleased with Results of 2004 Federal and State Elections
Nov 22 2004 // While most folks are just happy the political advertisements are gone, Election Day 2004 did provide some results of interest to the insurance industry. President George W. Bush (R) was re-elected for a second term,...
AIA VP Part of Team Working on Iraqi Code
Nov 22 2004 // David Snyder, vice president and assistant general counsel for the American Insurance Association (AIA) was part of a support team that went to Amman, Jordan, in June 2004 to assist the efforts of the group that included...
AIA: CAAA Lawsuit will Undermine Workers’ Compensation Reforms
Nov 11 2004 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) issued the statement below in response to the lawsuit filed by the California Applicant Attorneys Association (CAAA) challenging the regulations regarding Medical Provider Networks...
Republican Candidates Win ‘Big Time’ in Insurance Industry Political Giving in Federal Races
Nov 2 2004 // The late U.S. House Speaker Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill (D-Mass.) is famous for insisting, “All politics is local.” Apparently, O’Neill wasn’t counting the money. When it comes to...
Suchil Joins AIA
Oct 18 2004 // The American Insurance Association announced that Steven Suchil has been appointed assistant vice president in the association’s western region, based in Sacramento. Suchil will manage AIA’s advocacy efforts on...
N.Y.’s Serio Defends States as Federal Oversight Debate Begins
Oct 11 2004 // State insurance commissioners stood their ground last month at hearings in Washington where they opposed an expanded federal role in insurance regulation and withstood a withering attack on their performance from a leading...
N.J. Maintains Top Auto Insurance Premium Figures Reflect Years of ‘Suffering’ Before 2003 Reforms
Oct 1 2004 // New Jersey Banking and Insurance Commissioner Holly C. Bakke wasted little time in putting the latest numbers showing the state with the highest average auto insurance premium — $1,113 — in perspective. Those numbers...
PCI, AIA Work with Safety Orgs. to Develop Exam for Loss Control Professionals
Sep 27 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America and the American Insurance Association have worked been working together, along with professional safety organizations to “define and design a new test of skills...
AIA Insurers Call State Regulation a ‘Trifecta’ of Failure, State Their Case for Federal Role
Sep 23 2004 // A representative of the American Insurance Association (AIA) testified before the Senate Banking Committee, alleging that “the outdated, dysfunctional nature” of state insurance regulation does not allow the...
Insurance Industry Hopes to Extend TRIA in Time for 2005 Policies
Sep 20 2004 // But Not Everyone Thinks Renewing the Federal Backstop is a Good Idea Regardless of whether George W. Bush is re-elected or John Kerry moves into the White House, the property/casualty insurance industry appears to have a...
Oxley Supplies ‘Much-Needed Momentum’ for Terror Insurance Extension in Promising Bill by Sept. 29
Sep 16 2004 // In what the insurance industry reads as good news, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee is preparing to send to the full committee a bill to extend the life of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) for...
Commentary: SMART for Regulation’
Sep 14 2004 // Lobbyists for the American Insurance Association recently made their case for federal over state regulation of insurance before the House Committee on Financial Services by presenting a list that included the...
Leave-No-State-Regulation-Behind
Sep 6 2004 // Lobbyists for the American Insurance Association recently made their case for federal over state regulation of insurance before the House Committee on Financial Services by presenting a list that included the...
AIA Backs Medicare-Based Fee Schedule for Tenn. Workers’ Comp Medical Services
Aug 20 2004 // In testimony Friday before the Tennessee Department of Labor’s Medical Care and Cost Containment Committee, the American Insurance Association (AIA) endorsed a Medicare-based, objective fee schedule for provider...
LOUISIANA’S CITIZENS TAX EXEMPT:
Aug 9 2004 // The Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (Citizens), the state’s insurer of last resort, received IRS approval for status as a “tax exempt” organization, according to the American Insurance...
S.C. Gov. Signs Personal Lines Flex-Rating Bill
Jul 30 2004 // The American Insurance Association reported that South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford signed into law SB 686, a flex-rating bill that could eventually eliminate prior approval for homeowners’ insurance...
AIA: Latest ‘Solution’ to Address Illinois’ Med-Mal Crisis Falls Short
Jul 23 2004 // The latest proposal to address the medical malpractice and access to care crisis in Illinois falls short of meaningful liability reform and contains highly objectionable language that may promote more litigation, the...
AIA Comments on Wyoming Med-Mal Amendment
Jul 23 2004 // The special session of the Wyoming legislature ended on Saturday, July 17, following the passage of a constitutional amendment that would allow for caps on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases. This measure...
AIA: Senate Bill Boosts Momentum to Extend Terrorism Insurance Law
Jul 22 2004 // The introduction of legislation in the Senate on Thursday to extend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (TRIA) by two years “adds to the momentum for congressional action in 2004, and demonstrates bipartisan...
