Latest Legislation Headlines
All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Consumer Group Criticizes Calif. Commissioner over Protection Opportunities
Feb 11 2002 // According to the San Francisco Chronicle, California Insurance Commissioner Harry Low is under fire as insurance companies and consumer groups debate a new proposal stating how personal financial information can be sold or...
NAII Says Proposed Calif. Privacy Regulations Need Modifying
Feb 11 2002 // California’s proposed privacy standard includes unauthorized, unnecessary provisions that should be amended so consumers can better understand their rights, and companies can more easily comply with the regulations...
Consumer Organization Files Suit Against Three Auto Insurers
Feb 11 2002 // Harvey Rosenfield’s California-based Foundation for Taxpayers and Consumer Rights (FTCR) filed separate lawsuits on Jan. 9 against three major auto insurers, Geico Corp., SAFECO Corp., and the Automobile Club of...
Before & NAFTA: Open Borders, Long Term Effects on Long-Haul Trucking
Feb 11 2002 // Now that Congress and the Bush administration have struck a deal to pave the way for NAFTA trucking provisions—which the U.S. had been found to be violating for most of last year—the task of actually implementing these...
Too Hot to Handle’
Feb 11 2002 // The controversy swirling around the use of credit-based insurance scores in underwriting auto and homeowners policies is one that Insurance Journal has touched upon with increasing frequency during the past few months. But...
Before & NAFTA: Open Borders, Long Term Effects on Long-Haul Trucking
Feb 11 2002 // Now that Congress and the Bush administration have struck a deal to pave the way for NAFTA trucking provisions—which the U.S. had been found to be violating for most of last year—the task of actually implementing these...
Sen. Dodd to Address IIAA National Legislative Conference
Feb 7 2002 // Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.), an influential leader on insurance issues in the U.S. Senate, will be a keynote speaker at the 26th Annual Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA) National Legislative Conference...
AIA Welcomes Ally in Push for Federal Insurance Regulatory Presence
Feb 4 2002 // An active federal government role in the modernization of insurance industry regulation is more likely with the addition of yet another key industry group to the policymaking effort, according to the American Insurance...
Court Rules Morgan’s Lawyers Can’t Represent Firm in Surety Bond Case
Jan 31 2002 // The federal court judge in New York hearing the Enron surety bond case, brought by J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. against several insurance companies, has ruled that the law firm of Davis, Polk & Wardwell cannot...
NAII States Ariz. Bill Would Benefit Rental Car Cos., Increase Other Auto Coverages
Jan 31 2002 // According to the National Association of Independent Insurers, rental car companies would be the only beneficiaries of a bill to shift insurance responsibility now moving through the Arizona Legislature. Under current...
TOP 2002 LEGISLATIVE AGENDAS
Jan 28 2002 // Challenges to the use of credit scoring in underwriting and rating, and consumer privacy matters related to the Gramm/Leach/Bliley Act (GLB) will top the insurance issues considered by state legislatures in 2002, according...
E&S Lines Basking in the Warm Glow of a Hard Market
Jan 28 2002 // Early in 2000, insurance prices started doing something they had not done in almost 15 years. They began to increase, and they kept growing at a modest pace into the third quarter of 2001, when the events of September 11...
Penn. Lawmakers to Push Med Mal Reform
Jan 28 2002 // Tort reforms affecting Pennsylvania medical malpractice recoveries will apparently be receiving top priority from some of the State’s legislators, as they seek solutions to the current crisis in physicians’ and...
E&S Lines Basking in the Warm Glow of a
Jan 28 2002 // Early in 2000, insurance prices started doing something they had not done in almost 15 years. They began to increase, and they kept growing at a modest pace into the third quarter of 2001, when the events of September 11...
Michigan Governor Signs Self-Audit Legislation
Jan 24 2002 // Michigan Governor John Engler recently signed legislation that provides confidentiality protection for insurers that conduct voluntary self-assessments of their compliance with state insurance laws. According to the...
IIAA Adopts New Policy Position on Insurance Regulation Reform
Jan 24 2002 // While rejecting federal regulation of insurance, specifically a proposal by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) calling for federal insurance charters, the Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA) this week adopted a new...
Bills Restricting Use of Credit-Based Insurance Scores Introduced in Wash.
Jan 24 2002 // According to the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), companion bills severely restricting insurers’use of credit-based insurance scores have been introduced in the Washington State House and Senate....
NH Court Ruling Restores Sanity Says NAII
Jan 23 2002 // The New Hampshire Supreme Court’s January 11 decision has effectively overturned a decision made in 1999, that allowed an injured employee to collect both workers compensation benefits and sue for damages under the...
Without Federal Help, Terrorism Coverage Could be Months or Years Away
Jan 22 2002 // According to the Washington Post, insurance executives told state regulators in Washington, D.C., last week that minus federal help, it could be months or years until they can provide terrorism coverage. They added...
Utah Proposes Changing Privacy Regulation
Jan 22 2002 // The Utah Insurance Department is proposing to change its privacy regulation so that a third party involved in an insurance claim will be classified as a consumer rather than a customer of the insurer. “Without this...
