Latest AIA Headlines
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News Currents
Apr 9 2007 // Mass. auto report offers map to move state to limited price competition Also, advises against assigned risk pool change at this time and against erasing subsidies or allowing credit scoring A special auto insurance study...
News Currents
Apr 9 2007 // Mass. auto report offers map to move state to limited price competition Also, advises against assigned risk pool change at this time and against erasing subsidies or allowing credit scoring A special auto insurance study...
Let Private Markets Handle Most Disasters, Insurers Advise Congress
Mar 28 2007 // The best way for the federal government to help property owners recover from a natural disaster is to let private insurers do what they know, except in the case of a megadisaster, when federal aid would be needed. That was...
Washington Aims to Establish Insurance Fair Conduct Act
Mar 27 2007 // The Washington Senate has adopted an amendeed bill that insurance industry associations say will increase the number of lawsuits filed and needlessly drive up insurance costs for consumers. Senate Bill 5726 was developed...
Mass. Auto Report Urges Limited Price Competition; No Assigned Risk Change for Now
Mar 27 2007 // A special auto insurance study group appointed by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has recommended modest changes to introduce limited pricing competition while warning against a proposed overhaul of the state’s high...
N.D. Legislature Passes Insurance Modernization Bill
Mar 16 2007 // The North Dakota Senate took a positive step toward a more flexible and responsive insurance marketplace, according to one national insurance trade association. “Both commercial and personal lines customers will be...
AIA Applauds Passage of Self-Audit Bill in Okla. Senate
Mar 14 2007 // The American Insurance Association reported that the Oklahoma Senate unanimously approved Senate Bill 565, which encourages insurers doing business in the state to closely examine their operations and “clean...
News Currents
Mar 12 2007 // Insurers lose steam in auto rate reg fight A California Superior Court judge has thrown out a lawsuit that challenged rules requiring auto insurers to base their rates primarily on drivers’ records instead of where...
N.Y. Gov. Spitzer Announces Workers’ Comp Reform Accord
Feb 27 2007 // New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and legislative leaders announced an agreement to reform the state’s workers’ compensation system that has the backing of business and labor. Under the agreement, benefits for...
Insurers Hail Supreme Court’s Curtailing of Punitive Damages
Feb 21 2007 // Yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court 5-4 decision throwing out $79.5 million in punitive damages, a victory for cigarette maker Philip Morris, is also being seen as a victory by the insurance industry. In the case, Philip...
Mont. Blocks Military Financial Servcies Protection Act
Feb 16 2007 // A Montana state bill (H.B. 542) modeled after the federal “Military Personnel Financial Services Protection Act” (S. 418) was tabled in the Montana House Business and Labor Committee, chaired by Rep. Scott...
Fla. Appeals Court Upholds Asbestos Medical Criteria Law
Feb 9 2007 // A Florida intermediate appellate court has found that retroactive application of Florida’s asbestos and silica medical criteria law is constitutional. The case, Daimler Chrysler v. Hurst, involved a lung cancer...
Mich. Court Decision Upholds Insurance Code, Insurer Group Says
Jan 31 2007 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) today praised a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that it says validates and upholds Michigan’s insurance code by rejecting duplicative methods for...
There’s a lot insurers do not like in Florida’s property insurance fix
Jan 29 2007 // Legislators rolled up their sleeves, ripped off their ties and unbuttoned their collars as a special legislative session on property insurance came to a head in Florida. After six days of conferring, negotiating and...
There’s lot insurers do not like in Florida’s property insurance fix
Jan 28 2007 // Legislators rolled up their sleeves, ripped off their ties and unbuttoned their collars as a special legislative session on property insurance came to a head in Florida. After six days of conferring, negotiating and...
Insurer Group Applauds Report’s Call for Optional Federal Charter
Jan 23 2007 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) has issued a statement lauding a report released by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., which calls for making modernizing financial...
Association Applauds Idaho’s Deal’s Appointment
Jan 4 2007 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) applauding the appointment of Rep. Bill Deal to director of the Idaho Department of Insurance. Deal stepped down from him position in the House of Representatives for Idaho’s...
Insurers Overturn Fla. Restriction on Use of Credit Scoring
Jan 4 2007 // A Florida Administrative Law Judge has declared that the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation’s rule restricting the use of credit information by insurers is invalid. In a Dec. 29 ruling, Judge Lawrence P....
‘J.A.I.L. for Judges’ amendment soundly defeated in S.D.
Nov 20 2006 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) and the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) said that common sense triumphed in South Dakota with the sound defeat of Amendment E, the so-called...
Supreme Court races have positive outcomes
Nov 20 2006 // The goal of fair and balanced courts in states throughout the country was advanced in a number of state Supreme Court elections, according to the American Insurance Association. Contestable state Supreme Court elections...
