Latest Legislation Headlines
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Strickland, TDI Legal Division Deputy Commissioner, to Join Law Firm in Austin
Dec 13 2016 // Stanton Strickland, deputy commissioner of the Legal Division at the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), will join the Mitchell Williams Insurance Regulatory Practice Group in its Austin office, the law firm...
Top Florida Stories of 2016: Workers’ Comp Market in Turmoil
Dec 12 2016 // It’s been a tumultuous year for the Florida insurance industry. It would seem the biggest story would be the end of Florida’s hurricane drought as the state got hit by not one, but two hurricanes this year, the...
NAIC Taps Former Pennsylvania Commissioner, Transamerica Exec Consedine as CEO
Dec 12 2016 // Ten months after its last chief executive officer departed, the national organization of state insurance regulators has named former Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Michael F. Consedine as its new CEO. Consedine will...
Uber Wants Pennsylvania to Delay Rules for Driverless Cars
Dec 9 2016 // Ride-sharing company Uber wants the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to delay policy recommendations that govern the testing of driverless cars. Uber, which has been testing the driverless cars in Pittsburgh for...
A Conciliatory Airbnb Offers Guidelines for Cities’ Homesharing Regulation
Dec 9 2016 // In a moment of peace-making with regulators, Airbnb on Wednesday released a set of policy suggestions for governments that are considering new laws for home- and apartment-renting. The document, which comes on the heels of...
Judge Sides with Insurer in Greg Allman Movie Producer Coverage Dispute
Dec 9 2016 // A California federal judge has rendered a ruling on the insurance dispute that emanated from the fatal train accident during the 2014 shooting of the Gregg Allman biopic Midnight Rider in Georgia. In a summary judgment...
Judge Denies State Farm’s Bid to Stop California Rate Reduction Order
Dec 8 2016 // California Superior Court Judge Katherine Bacal has denied State Farm’s emergency request to stay Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones’s order directing State Farm to reduce homeowner and renter rates by 7...
Lawmakers Discuss Merging New Jersey Transit, Other Agencies
Dec 8 2016 // Lawmakers on Tuesday discussed the idea of merging embattled New Jersey Transit with other state agencies to save money to use for road, bridge and rail projects, and heard from experts about safety upgrades following a...
South Dakota AG: Crime Information May Be Released Under New Law
Dec 8 2016 // Government entities aren’t automatically blocked from releasing information such as the exact location of a crime to the public under a new victims’ rights constitutional amendment, Attorney General Marty...
Florida’s Citizens to Lawmakers: AOB Reform Must be Passed in 2017
Dec 8 2016 // Florida lawmakers can expect substantial pressure to tackle the assignment of benefits (AOB) and water loss claims crisis from the state’s insurer of last resort when Florida’s legislative session begins early...
Oregon Backs off Testing Regulations for Pot Industry
Dec 7 2016 // The state of Oregon has temporarily eased up on testing requirements for marijuana, days after business insiders warned that new rules would cause a drop in state tax revenues, an increase in black-market sales and layoffs...
Health Insurers Warm to Replacing Individual Mandate with Incentives
Dec 7 2016 // U.S. health insurers signaled Tuesday that they’re willing to give up a cornerstone provision of Obamacare that requires all Americans to have insurance, replacing it with a different set of incentives less loathed...
Apple Urges Regulators to Go Easy on Autonomous Vehicle Testing
Dec 6 2016 // Apple Inc. is wading in to the debate over regulation of self-driving cars, declaring it is excited about the potential for automated transportation and calling on U.S. regulators not to restrict testing of such...
Uber Drivers in Taiwan Threatened with Fines of $780,000 in Draft Rules
Dec 6 2016 // Investors and companies are getting a preview of how the Taiwan government’s plan to become “Asia’s Silicon Valley” might fare. Uber Technologies Inc., one of Silicon Valley’s most disruptive...
Florida Supreme Court Rules Against Insurer in Concurrent Loss Case
Dec 6 2016 // The Florida Supreme Court has ruled in favor of policyholders seeking coverage on claims where there is the possibility of multiple concurrent losses but at least one of the losses is covered under their policy. Though the...
California Lawmaker Introduces ‘Superbug’ Infections, Death Reporting Bill
Dec 5 2016 // A California state senator introduced a bill on Monday that would mandate reporting of antibiotic-resistant infections and deaths and require doctors to record the infections on death certificates when they are a cause of...
Judge Awards $5M to 2 Men Wrongfully Jailed in Nebraska
Dec 5 2016 // A federal judge in Nebraska has ordered Douglas County’s insurance carrier to pay $5 million — plus legal costs — to two men wrongfully jailed for months in the 2006 killing of a Murdock couple because the...
Lloyd’s Details Its New Corporate Operating Model to Help Deliver Vision 2025
Dec 5 2016 // Lloyd’s announced details of its new Corporation Operating Model (COM) that it said will enable it to deliver its Vision 2025* more effectively and efficiently. Effective Jan. 1, 2017, COM will enable Lloyd’s...
California High Court Rules Firms Must Protect Households From Asbestos
Dec 5 2016 // The California Supreme Court says companies can be held liable for exposing members of a worker’s household to asbestos. The court ruled unanimously that companies have a responsibility to prevent such exposure when...
Rutgers Law School in New Jersey Launches Project to Improve Homeowners Insurance
Dec 5 2016 // The Rutgers Center for Risk and Responsibility at Rutgers Law School in Camden, N.J., in collaboration with United Policyholders, is seeking to improve homeowners insurance nationally through its recently launched national...
