Latest Legislation Headlines
All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Where are the Southeastern Commissioners on Rate Modernization’
Feb 23 2004 // For reasons that remain incomprehensible to me, some lawmakers tend to believe that they have a constitutional duty to meddle in rate filings. South Carolina Insurance Director Ernst Csiszar was the first to admit that he...
Reflections from Rip Van Winkle
Feb 23 2004 // From 1979 to 1988 I had the pleasure of serving as executive V. P. of the Independent Insurance Agents of Arkansas. For the past fifteen years I have served as the lobbyist for the Arkansas Medical Society. When Kelley...
Medical Liability Reform Group Praising Senate Leaders for Their Efforts to Improve System
Feb 18 2004 // The Coalition for Affordable and Reliable Health Care (CARH), an organization of health care providers and others dedicated to medical liability reform, this week praised new efforts by U.S. Senate leaders to bring balance...
FACT Act Addresses Changes for Fair Credit Reporting Act
Feb 18 2004 // The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions (FACT) Act of 2003 will impact property/casualty insurers primarily in the areas of sharing information among affiliates and providing consumers with adverse action notices on...
Judge: Insurers Lack Standing in Halliburton Case
Feb 12 2004 // Halliburton announced that the Honorable Judith K. Fitzgerald issued a ruling holding that insurers lack standing to bring motions seeking to dismiss the prepackaged reorganization cases filed by DII Industries, Kellogg...
NEW HAMPSHIRE AUTO RULES:
Feb 9 2004 // A New Hampshire legislative panel with responsibility for reviewing regulatory changes has cleared the way for a streamlining of the state’s automobile insurance system. The Joint Legislative Committee on...
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Optimistic as 2004 Unfolds
Feb 9 2004 // He came to Washington, D.C., with a background steeped in medicine. U.S. Senate Majority Leader and Tennessee Republican Bill Frist has known first-hand the impact of the nation’s medical malpractice crisis and how...
IIABA NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE RUNS APRIL 21-23:
Feb 9 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America has scheduled the 28th annual National Legislative Conference for April 21-23 at The Capital Hilton in downtown Washington, D.C. The event, which always features...
Political Season Again’
Feb 9 2004 // Presidential politics have been claiming the headlines of late, what with the Democrats holding primaries and President Bush crossing the country giving “non-campaign” campaign speeches. But in Texas a...
Political Season Again’
Feb 9 2004 // Presidential politics have been claiming the headlines of late, what with the Democrats holding primaries and President Bush crossing the country giving “non-campaign” campaign speeches. But in Texas a...
AUTO INSURANCE, WORKERS’ COMP EMERGE AGAIN AS TOP LEADING LEGAL ISSUE TRENDS:
Feb 9 2004 // Workers’ compensation and automobile insurance laws accounted for nearly 40 percent of the new property/casualty-related statutes enacted by state legislatures last year, according to the fifth annual analysis of...
Talking Tort with Colorado Commissioner Doug Dean
Feb 9 2004 // Washington Governor Bill Owens appointed Doug Dean commissioner of Insurance in January 2003. As commissioner, Dean heads the Division of Insurance, which is one of eight divisions within the Department of Regulatory...
Will AB 1297 End the Agent/Broker Definition Debate’
Feb 9 2004 // The ability to collect a broker fee is often all that stands between a brokerage remaining in business and the community losing another independent outlet for insurance coverage. For many years, there has been considerable...
No Brake Yet for Personal & Commercial Auto
Feb 9 2004 // The auto insurance market has come a long way since Travelers wrote the first third-party policy for Gilbert J. Loomis’s one-cylinder car in 1897. “I’ll never insure a gasoline can on wheels,”...
PCI Urges Rejection of N.J. Privacy Law Proposals
Feb 6 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America urged New Jersey Senate Commerce Committee members to reject proposed legislation regarding the privacy of financial information, indicating that the current proposals...
PIANY Notes Effect of Law to Protect Policyholders, Agents
Feb 6 2004 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. noted that as of Feb. 12 a new law comes into effect in New York that will give greater protection to the state’s insurance-buying consumers, who can be...
IIABNY Members Meet with Legislators During 34th “L-Day”
Feb 6 2004 // Nearly 200 agents and brokers gathered today at the State Capitol in Albany for the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York’s 34th Legislative Day. During the day, agents and brokers met with...
TDI Recognizes IMSA as a Best Practices Organization
Feb 5 2004 // The Insurance Marketplace Standards Association (IMSA) commended the Texas Department of Insurance for issuing a Commissioner’s Bulletin affirming that its examiners routinely use information provided by IMSA-member...
South Dakota Senate Approves File-and-Use Bill
Feb 3 2004 // The South Dakota Senate’s overwhelming approval of a bill to modernize the state’s property/casualty insurance rating system will lay the groundwork to attract new companies to the state. The Senate last week...
British MEP Wants EU Court to Examine Lloyd’s case
Feb 2 2004 // Roy Perry, a British Conservative member of the European Parliament, has called for an investigation by the European Court of Justice, the EU’s highest court, of the accusations against Lloyd’s and the U.K....
