Latest Legislation Headlines
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After Verdict in Abuse Case, Vermont Judge Puts Lien on Church
May 20 2008 // A judge has agreed to put a lien of more than $10 million on property including the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington, Vermont, to secure damages won by the plaintiff in a suit alleging sexual abuse...
U.S. Insurers Face Uphill Battle to Alter Foreign Insurers’ Tax Break
May 19 2008 // A coalition of U.S. insurers is calling on lawmakers to close a tax loophole that helps foreign insurers, and although it has won the support of presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, it faces a harder task convincing...
Mass. Auto Competition Heats Up – Over Rules and Regulations
May 19 2008 // Existing carriers call high risk exemption for newcomers unfair; agents say Progressive’s Web site misleads After a month of operating under a new managed competition system for auto insurance, Massachusetts is...
New York Agents Seek to Curb State-backed Workers’ Comp Insurer
May 19 2008 // A trade group for New York insurance agents wants to rewrite the laws governing the New York State Insurance Fund — a nonprofit state agency that is the state’s largest workers’ compensation insurer — to...
Trucking Under the Influence
May 19 2008 // Number of Drug and Alcohol Abusing Truckers Unknown It is estimated that somewhere between 1 percent and 10 percent of drivers of commercial or “big rig” trucks are operating under the influence of drugs or...
NAIC: Pack Your Bags!
May 19 2008 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) currently makes its home in Kansas City. For most situations, this works well, particularly with telecommuting, videoconferencing and e-mail. It even worked well...
Trucking Under the Influence
May 19 2008 // Number of Drug and Alcohol Abusing Truckers Unknown It is estimated that somewhere between 1 percent and 10 percent of drivers of commercial or “big rig” trucks are operating under the influence of drugs or...
Declarations
May 19 2008 // Judge in Awe “I have never experienced anything like these 124 cases in my 15 years on the bench. These cases have generated a tremendous amount of publicity, both in West Virginia and nationally. These are not...
Florida’s Adding to Citizens’ Risk Worries CFO Sink
May 19 2008 // Florida lawmakers rolled the dice again on May 1, signing off on a new insurance bill that does little to alleviate Florida’s risky stakes in the marketplace, according to industry executives and many lawmakers. A...
Arizona Passes Captive Insurance Legislation
May 19 2008 // The Arizona Legislature has passed a bill designed to allow captive insurers to cover employment practices liability risk and remove the requirement that at least one incorporator be a resident of the state. Captive...
Oklahoma Governor Vetoes Lawsuit Reform Bill
May 19 2008 // Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry in mid-May vetoed lawsuit reform legislation he said conflicts with an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision on a similar bill that the court found unconstitutional two years ago. Henry vetoed the...
Nevada Insurance Regulator to Retire
May 19 2008 // Longtime Nevada Insurance Commissioner Alice Molasky-Arman has decided to retire effective Sept. 7, 2008, after a long regulatory career. Molasky-Arman was named commissioner in 1995 and has served under three governors....
Colorado Bill Gives Regulator Authority to Demand Insurance Compensation
May 19 2008 // Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter has signed a bill that will allow the state Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA), and its Division of Insurance the legal authority to demand that insurance companies or agents compensate...
NAIC: Pack Your Bags!
May 19 2008 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) currently makes its home in Kansas City. For most situations, this works well, particularly with telecommuting, videoconferencing and e-mail. It even worked well...
Declarations
May 19 2008 // Design, Not Default “If you talk to a lot of people in insurance companies, they’ll tell you that their career in insurance started by default, not by design. It helps to be able to find people earlier and...
Trucking Under the Influence
May 19 2008 // Number of Drug and Alcohol Abusing Truckers Unknown It is estimated that somewhere between 1 percent and 10 percent of drivers of commercial or “big rig” trucks are operating under the influence of drugs or...
N.Y. Lawmakers Welcome Governor’s Bid for Stricter Physician Oversight
May 16 2008 // State lawmakers say New York Gov. David Paterson’s proposal to increase doctor oversight and prevent misconduct has a good chance of passing this session — but with changes. Assembly Health Committee Chairman...
N.Y. County to Contractors: Prove Workers Are in U.S. Legally
May 16 2008 // A new law has been passed requiring all of Suffolk County’s (New York) 17,000 licensed contractors to prove their workers are in the United States legally. Critics claim the legislation — passed by the county...
Louisiana Legislature Doing Homework on Insurance, Lobbyist Says
May 16 2008 // About 55 percent of the lawmakers in the 2008 Louisiana Legislature are new to the job but they are doing their homework on insurance issues, one surplus lines insurance industry representative says. David Tatman of Baton...
Maine Court Rules State Not to Blame for Crash on Road without Stripes
May 15 2008 // The state supreme court has set aside a jury’s verdict that the Maine Department of Transportation was partly to blame in a hit-and-run crash because it took too long to paint stripes on Route 302. A jury awarded...
