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Nonprofits Especially Need Protection Against D&O Liability Risks
Sep 17 2001 // Although Directors’ and Officers’ liability insurance (D&O) often is associated with large for-profit companies, they are not the only ones that need it. Many people hold the common misperception that...
NY Reg 68 Auto Insurance Reforms Stay Blocked
Sep 11 2001 // An Appellate Court in New York has blocked the implementation of the automobile insurance reforms contained in Regulation 68, which were due to go into force on September 1.(See IJ Website Sept. 5) Justice Peter Tom...
Judge Sets December 4 Deadline for Reliance
Sep 11 2001 // Judge James Gardner Colins has given the Pennsylvania Insurance Department (PDI) until December 4th to come up with a plan to either rehabilitate Reliance Insurance Co., or to shut down the insolvent insurer. The PDI is...
Fear of the Unknown–The Mold Issue Raises More Questions Than Answers (Part II) By Catherine Tapia
Sep 10 2001 // By Catherine Tapia This is the second installation of a two-part series dealing with the rising issue of toxic mold claims, which continues its exploration of specific mold-related lawsuits in California: determining...
Construction Defect, Mold Issues Considered During Last Days of Calif. Session
Sep 10 2001 // The last day of the 2001 California legislative session, Sept. 14, is rapidly drawing near. Among the remaining bills whose fate hangs in the balance are two which, if passed, would have varying degrees of impact on...
Fear of the Unknown-The Mold Issue Raises More Questions Than Answers
Sep 10 2001 // Editor’s Note: This is the second installation of a two-part series dealing with the rising issue of toxic mold claims. See IJ, Aug. 27, 2001, for Part I. Part II Determining causation A major aspect of the ongoing...
NAPSLO Retrospective: A Visit With Outgoing President John Latham
Sep 10 2001 // John Latham will soon step aside as National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO) president making room for Tap Johnson, Jr. Before his exit, he agreed to spend a few minutes with Insurance Journal to...
Insurance Legislation for Hate-Crime Victims Moves to Gov. Davis
Sep 10 2001 // I think more and more folks are getting comfortable at least to the point of neutrality now.” That is one insurance industry spokesman’s take on AB 1193, a bill that would prohibit insurance companies from...
NYID Appeal Reinstates Start of Reg 68 Reforms
Sep 5 2001 // For the moment the implementation of the changes in insurance regulations contained in regulation 68 issued by the New York Insurance Department have taken effect. Last Friday The State Supreme Court in Manhattan blocked...
NAMIC Says GAO Report Affirms Group’s Stance on NAIC’s Ability
Sep 3 2001 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) says a long-anticipated General Accounting Office (GAO) report on state regulatory initiatives confirms the association’s position that while state...
TDI Considers Regulations for Insurance-by-the-Mile
Sep 3 2001 // The Texas Legislature authorized insurance-by-the-mile-based auto insurance coverage during this year’s session with the passage of House Bill (HB) 45 and the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) is now hard at work...
2,200 Attendees Expected at NAPSLO Convention, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian to Keynote 27th Annu
Sep 3 2001 // Tapley O. Johnson, Jr., incoming president of the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO) and chairman of the annual convention, expects some 2,200 attendees at the 27th Annual Convention in San...
Incoming NAPSLO President Focuses on Regulatory Issues, Technology
Sep 3 2001 // When John Latham steps down as president of the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO) in San Antonio later this month, Tapley O. Johnson, Jr., will take on the office as incoming president and...
NAPSLO Retrospective: A Visit With Outgoing President John Latham
Sep 3 2001 // John Latham will step aside as National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO) president later this month making room for Tap Johnson, Jr. Before his exit, he agreed to spend a few minutes with...
Mileage-Based Auto Insurance’
Sep 3 2001 // Rule makers over at TDI are huddling these days trying to decide how best to promul-gate regulations for the pending implementation of private passenger auto insurance by-the- mile for Texas drivers. The measure was born...
NAII Says Health Information in Proposed Iowa Privacy Law Would Cause Confusion, Frustration
Aug 31 2001 // Inclusion of health information in a proposed state regulation in Iowa on consumer privacy could cause confusion and frustration for consumers and force agents to comply with two different privacy standards plus add to...
Calif. Bill Could Threaten Investigation of Insurance Fraud
Aug 31 2001 // According to the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), California Assembly members are poised to vote on a bill that would “hamstring” insurers’ ability to conduct investigations when they...
New Fuel Added to the Fire Over NJ Auto Rates
Aug 28 2001 // The battle over New Jersey’s auto insurance rates and regulations, which began when State Farm Indemnity, the largest writer in the State, announced its intention to withdraw from the market, continues to rage as the...
Politics Can Lead to Bumps in the Road for Auto Insurance
Aug 27 2001 // Overregulation in the auto insurance industry may be an accident that has already happened in some states; but regulators can look to other states as examples of how regulatory requirements can be uniform and yet flexible...
IIAANY Opposes Federal Insurance System
Aug 23 2001 // The Independent Insurance Agents Association of New York voiced its opposition to any changes in the system of state regulation of insurers in an open letter, which takes issue with proposals supported by the American...
