Latest AIA Headlines
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Lame Duck Romney Team Proceeds with Mass. Auto Changes
Nov 9 2006 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler said she intends to finish what she started three years ago in trying to refashion the state’s high risk auto insurance system, despite urgings by some that she...
S. D. J.A.I.L. for Judges Amendment Soundly Defeated
Nov 8 2006 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) and the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) said today that common sense triumphed in South Dakota with the sound defeat of Amendment E, the so-called...
Mich. Appeals Court Hears Oral Arguments on Use of Credit Scores
Oct 11 2006 // A hearing on the legality of the use of credit scoring in setting insurance rates took place this week in Lansing, Mich. at the Hall of Justice. The appeals hearing follows the ruling by Judge James H. Fisher to strike...
NAIC, Trades Spar at Congressional Hearing on Insurer Investments
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...
House Subcommittee Hears Testimony on Coastal Insurance Market
Sep 13 2006 // The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises, heard testimony today from industry advocates to discuss the need for public and private sectors to work...
Insurers Urge Calif. to Drop Proposed Rate of Return Regulations
Sep 13 2006 // Three property/casualty insurance trade associations urged the California Department of Insurance (CDI) to abandon proposed regulations that would radically change how the CDI reviews and approves insurance company rate...
Election-Year Politics Dominate California, Association Says
Sep 5 2006 // Ending a moderately quiet year for insurers and without any major battles, legislators adjourned the 2005-06 session last week, said the American Insurance Association (AIA). Chipping away at the workers’...
California Strengthens Teen Driver Laws
Sep 1 2006 // California has strengthened its laws for teenage drivers to reduce the number of injuries and fatalities on state roadways. The American Insurance Association (AIA) has commended Californians for the decision. According to...
In Advance of Windstorm Hearing, AIA Provides Input for Texas Legislators
Aug 29 2006 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) announced it has submitted information regarding residual insurance markets and natural catastrophes to the Texas Joint Committee on Windstorm Coverage and Budgetary Impact for its...
Coalition Says Insurer Group’s Disaster Plan is Insufficient
Aug 22 2006 // With the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina one week away, the American Insurance Association (AIA) has unveiled a National Catastrophe Agenda designed to reinforce resilience to catastrophic hurricanes. But not...
American Insurance Association Lays Out National Agenda to Strengthen Communities
Aug 16 2006 // American Insurance Association President Marc Racicot is scheduled to outline for the press his organization’s National Catastrophe Public Policy Agenda, which is designed to promote economic security and stability...
Optional federal charter is needed
Jul 24 2006 // Editor’s note: The following excerpt is edited from an oral statement made by Joseph J. Beneducci, president of Fireman’s Fund at the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee’s July 11 hearing...
States may scrap full collateral requirements for ‘alien’ reinsurers
Jul 24 2006 // In an abrupt departure from procedures that have been in place since World War II, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners took a first step at its recently concluded meeting in Washington, D.C., towards...
Optional federal charter is needed
Jul 24 2006 // Editor’s note: The following excerpt is edited from an oral statement made by Joseph J. Beneducci, president of Fireman’s Fund at the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee’s July 11 hearing...
Optional federal charter is needed
Jul 24 2006 // Editor’s note: The following excerpt is edited from an oral statement made by Joseph J. Beneducci, president of Fireman’s Fund at the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee’s July 11 hearing...
Optional federal charter is needed
Jul 24 2006 // Editor’s note: The following excerpt is edited from an oral statement made by Joseph J. Beneducci, president of Fireman’s Fund at the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee’s July 11 hearing...
Insurers File Lawsuit to Stop Calif. Auto Insurance Regulations
Jul 20 2006 // Three insurance trade groups have filed a lawsuit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to stop enforcement of California Department of Insurance (CDI) auto rating regulations, which they say are “unfair”...
State Legislators Eye Market Conduct, Building Codes, Federal Charter
Jul 20 2006 // State legislators who deal with insurance issues in their legislatures back home are expected to discuss amendments to their market conduct model law as well as state building codes during their summer meeting that runs...
Washington Commissioner Hits Wrong Note on Use of Credit, Insurers Say
Jul 18 2006 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) today said recent comments by Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler about insurer use of credit are off-the-mark and ignore established consensus on the...
S.D. Amendment Allowing Judges to be Sued Opposed by Insurer Trades
Jul 14 2006 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) and the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) said today that South Dakota Attorney General Larry Long’s official explanation of a proposed constitutional...
