Latest AIA Headlines
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AIA Urges Cal-OSHA to Quash Effort to Alter Ergonomics Rule
Jul 23 2001 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) urges the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board (Board) to reject a petition by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of International Organizations...
NAMIC Comments on AIA’s Optional Federal Charter Proposal
Jul 23 2001 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) issued the following comment from Vice President-Federal Affairs, Pamela J. Allen, on the American Insurance Association’s (AIA) proposal for an optional...
Trade Associations React to AIA’s Move Toward Federal Chartering
Jul 19 2001 // The Alliance of American Insurers expressed strong disagreement with the American Insurance Association’s (AIA) new position endorsing an optional federal chartering plan for property and casualty insurers. Alliance...
AIA Board of Directors Endorses Optional Federal Chartering Plan
Jul 18 2001 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) Board of Directors formally endorsed draft legislation that would allow property/casualty insurance companies to obtain a federal business charter. Although the AIA proposal is...
AIA Applauds Court Decision Reaffirming Workers’ Comp System as Exclusive Remedy in Calif.
Jul 12 2001 // According to the American Insurance Association (AIA), late last week, the California State Supreme Court unanimously ruled that businesses hiring contractors to perform work are not liable if an employee of the contractor...
AIA Supports China WTO Bid in House Hearing
Jul 11 2001 // The American Insurance Association continued its longtime support of “Normal Trading Relations” with China and its entry into the World Trade Organization at hearings held Tuesday by the House Ways and Means...
AIA Says Insurer Interests Not Addressed in HHS Privacy Materials
Jul 11 2001 // According to the American Insurance Association (AIA), the first in a series of guidance materials intended to clarify key provisions of the new federal privacy protections for medical records and other personal health...
Calif. Financial Privacy Bill Revived
Jul 11 2001 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) reported that the California State Assembly has granted a rule waiver to allow the Assembly Banking Committee to reconsider a critical financial privacy measure, SB 773, by Jackie...
AIA Sees July as Historic Trade Month
Jul 6 2001 // The American Insurance Association believes that the number of international agreements that are up for consideration, and their potentially far reaching consequences for the industry, could make July 2001 an historic...
AIA Praises Work of Delaware Legislature
Jul 3 2001 // Taylor Cosby, American Insurance Ass’n., VP – mid Atlantic region, praised the work of Delaware’s General Assembly as it wound up the first part of its two year session. Cosby noted that financial service...
AIA Says Lack of Uniformity in State Laws Hampers e-Commerce Growth
Jul 3 2001 // The impact on insurers of the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act of 2000 (also known as “E-Sign”) was discussed by a representative of the American Insurance Association at a Capitol Hill...
Council of Insurance Agents + Brokers , AIA comment on Passage of Antifraud Act
Jul 3 2001 // The Council of Insurance Agents + Brokers showed its support to The House Financial Services Committee Chairman Mike Oxley (R-OH) and Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) on the recent passage of the Financial Services Antifraud...
Consumer Federation of America’s Study Comes Under Fire from AIA
Jul 2 2001 // Calling the Consumer Federation of America’s (CFA) study on state insurance regulation “poorly conceived” and “wrong headed,” the American Insurance Association (AIA) is urging CFA to retract...
AIA Applauds Defeat of Financial Privacy Legislation in California
Jun 29 2001 // According to the American Insurance Association (AIA), following a second lengthy hearing, the Assembly Banking Committee recently voted to kill a bill that would have interrupted the California information economy. The...
Mass. Committee Favors Audit Privilege Bill Supported by AIA
Jun 28 2001 // The Joint Insurance Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature has given a favorable report on a self-audit privilege measure supported by the American Insurance Association. The bill, which would not be retroactive, would...
AIA Heralds New Era in Privacy Protection
Jun 28 2001 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) hailed the beginning of a new era in consumer privacy protection, confirming that insurers already have measures in place to comply with the new privacy regime resulting from the...
AIA Urges NY Governor To Veto Bill Removing Drunk Driving Benefit Exclusions
Jun 26 2001 // The American Insurance Association has urged NY Governor George Pataki to veto a bill passed by the Assembly and the Senate, which would remove the current exclusion of benefits for drunk drivers under the State’s...
AIA Testifies: Need for Insurance Regulatory Reform Is Urgent
Jun 22 2001 // Appearing on behalf of the American Insurance Association (AIA) before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government-Sponsored Enterprises, Robert Gowdy, President and CEO of...
AIA Backed Amendments Included in NH Workers’ Comp Bill
Jun 18 2001 // The new bill (H.230), which establishes scheduling criteria for workers’ compensation claims, signed last Thursday by New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen, contained important amendments proposed by the American...
Connecticut Legislature Adjourns, Avoids ‘Onerous’ Bills
Jun 12 2001 // Several bills that would have increased insurance costs died as the Connecticut State Legislature adjourned its 2001 regular session, according to the American Insurance Association. “A number of bills that would...
