Latest Legislation Headlines
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Insurance Execs Not Confident of Underwriting Profit Over Next 3 Years
Sep 23 2009 // Insurance executives see their companies performing above general market expectations in 2010, but their outlook on the industry’s ability to generate underwriting profit in the next one to three years remains...
Insurers Honor 2 North Carolina Lawmakers for Beach Plan Bill
Sep 23 2009 // Two North Carolina state legislators have been named “State Legislators of the Year” by the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) for their efforts to pass legislation reforming the...
New York Earns Accreditation by Insurance Commissioners’ Group
Sep 23 2009 // The New York State Insurance Department has been accredited under the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Financial Regulations Standards and Accreditation Program. “State insurance...
‘Main Street’ P/C Insurers Tell Congress They Don’t Need More Regulation
Sep 23 2009 // Home, auto and business insurers did not cause the current financial crisis, do not present systemic risk, and are already regulated effectively, a group of them is telling federal lawmakers looking at expanding financial...
Noted California Insurance Lobbyist Passes Away
Sep 23 2009 // Long-time Sacramento lobbyist for California insurance agents and former Federal Bureau of Investigations investigator, Fred G. Dupuis, died last week in Marin County, where he had lived for 60 years. Dupuis was 93 years...
Judge Sides with Contractor in Indiana Explosion Lawsuit
Sep 22 2009 // A federal judge has ruled that a contractor does not owe damages to Vectren Corp. over a natural gas explosion at an Indiana home that killed two women. Vectren sued Iowa Pipeline Associates, claiming its workers...
Report Warns Against Applying Systemic Risk Regulation to Insurers
Sep 22 2009 // Blame for the financial crisis and the near collapse of American International Group should reflect “the substantial evidence of fundamental failures in U.S. and foreign regulation of commercial banking, thrift...
States Give a ‘Thumbs Up’ to Fingerprinting Insurance Producers
Sep 21 2009 // Regulators Say Fingerprinting Keeps Criminals Out of the Business Don’t be alarmed, but there are convicted criminals roaming around the country acting as insurance producers. They could be robbers, forgers, possibly...
Virginia Agents Present Award to Lawmaker
Sep 21 2009 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Virginia (IIAV) has given its Commonwealth Award to Republican lawmaker Frank D. Hargrove Sr. The award recognizes outstanding service for the insurance industry, independent insurance...
New York Issues New Draft of Disclosure Rules for Agents
Sep 21 2009 // The New York State Insurance Department released proposed new rules mandating how and what insurance agents must reveal to clients about how they are compensated in the sale of policy. The so-called transparency rules...
What to Know About Red Flags, Notification Laws and the Hi Tech Act
Sep 21 2009 // Data breaches have hit an all time high and with that have been a dramatic increase in new data security and privacy laws and regulations. Both state and federal regulations have been in place for several years with...
North Carolina Coastal Broker Ready to Ride Beach Plan Reform Wave
Sep 21 2009 // Hanover Excess Sees State Pool Changes A Boost For Business Still Recovering From Recession, Soft Market The Web site for Hanover Excess (www.hanoverxs.com) proclaims that the people at this North Carolina excess and...
Colorado’s Pinnacol Defends Actions
Sep 21 2009 // Executives from Colorado’s state-chartered workers’ compensation insurance company defended themselves against accusations of lavish spending and excess profits during a legislative hearing and they told...
California Lawmaker Wants More Green Insurance Products
Sep 21 2009 // Bill Would Require Green Products, Offer Tax Credits Even As Industry Steps Up Its Own Development A bill recently introduced in California could encourage more ecologically friendly insurance policy products, putting the...
California Sets Rules for Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance
Sep 21 2009 // California has issued final pay-as-you-drive regulations, which will guide insurers offering consumers rates that are based on actual as opposed to estimated miles driven. The regulations allow insurers to offer discounts...
House Passes Surplus Lines Reform Legislation
Sep 21 2009 // The House of Representatives passed HR 2571, the Non-Admitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2009, on Sept. 9. The bill, authored by Reps. Dennis Moore, D-Kan., and Scott Garrett, R-N.J, will simplify the tax remittance and...
A.M. Best: New Regulations, Market Conditions and Financial Crisis Wreak Havoc on Workers’ Comp Line
Sep 21 2009 // Challenging market conditions, the financial crisis and the recession drove profitability downward for the U.S. workers’ compensation market in 2008. Changing regulatory conditions and reforms have also impacted the...
Feds, Regulators, Congress Eye the Future of Credit Rating Agencies
Sep 21 2009 // The nation’s insurance regulators, Congress and the SEC have eyes on credit rating agencies and the standards they must follow in the future. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) said it will...
SEC Tightens Regulation of Credit Rating Agencies
Sep 18 2009 // Credit agencies will have to disclose more of their ratings history, and creators of financial products will have to share data with all credit raters, under rules adopted by U.S. regulators Thursday. The U.S. Securities...
Insurance Industry Facing Increased Regulatory, Legislative Activity: Study
Sep 18 2009 // Legislative and regulatory activity affecting the insurance industry has increased considerably in 2009 compared to the previous two years, according to a new report. From January to July 2009, more than 10,000 pieces of...
