Latest Legislation Headlines
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McCarty Deserves Some Credit for Stabilizing Florida Market
Jan 21 2015 // Testifying this week before the Florida House Insurance and Banking Subcommittee, Office of Insurance Regulation Deputy Chief of Staff Monte Stevens echoed much of what has been reported in recent months about...
California Court Rejects Insurance Challenge to Prop. 103
Jan 21 2015 // The Sacramento Superior Court issued a decision rejecting an insurance industry challenge on the California insurance commissioner’s regulations under Proposition 103 that limit the amount of advertising costs...
Penn. Insurance Dept.: 2014 Was a Banner Year for Consumer Protection
Jan 21 2015 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department said 2014 was a banner year for consumer protection. The department said its Office of Market Regulation concluded 2014 by collecting more than $4 million in penalties and fines and...
Federal Judge Allows N.J. Town’s Dune Construction Plan to Proceed
Jan 21 2015 // A federal judge ruled on Jan. 15 to let a beach replenishment project proceed — for now — over the objections of a Jersey shore town that does not want the sand piles. Judge Renee Marie Bumb decided that...
Insurance Groups Criticize Massachusetts Rideshare Regulations
Jan 20 2015 // Insurance industry associations say Massachusetts’ newly developed rideshare regulations are vague and woefully deficient in addressing the insurance concerns. The regulations, crafted by Massachusetts Department of...
Florida Insurance Commissioner McCarty’s Reappointment in Doubt
Jan 20 2015 // Florida’s insurance regulator’s tenure could be coming to an end after more than a decade as the newly re-elected governor looks to shake up his administration by replacing the heads of state agencies. Rumors...
Republican Lawmakers in Missouri Considering Lawsuit Caps Again
Jan 20 2015 // Nearly a decade after Missouri last limited some civil lawsuit awards, Republican lawmakers are organizing to reinstate caps overturned by the state’s highest court. Businesses can now face lawsuits with unlimited...
Boston Taxi Owner Suit Latest Legal Salvo in Rideshare Wars
Jan 20 2015 // Taxi owners accused Boston officials of violating their constitutional rights by permitting Uber Technologies Inc. and other ride-sharing services to operate on city streets. The cabbies, in a lawsuit filed last Friday by...
Politicians Vow to Block FEMA From Taking Mistaken Sandy Aid
Jan 20 2015 // About 3,000 Superstorm Sandy victims who were either wrongly given storm recovery aid or who were overpaid would not have to repay the federal government under legislation to be introduced this week by two New Jersey...
South Carolina Lawmakers Seek to Regulate Homeowners Associations
Jan 20 2015 // Complaints about how subdivision and condominium homeowners associations operate have led South Carolina lawmakers to introduce four bills to more closely regulate the groups. The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reports that...
Judge Approves Montana Diocese $16.4M Sex Abuse Settlement
Jan 16 2015 // A federal bankruptcy judge has approved a reorganization plan for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena in Montana that includes a $16.4 million settlement for hundreds of people who sued over clergy sex abuse from the...
West Virginia Judge Dismisses Parts Suit Against Body Shop, Liberty Mutual
Jan 16 2015 // A Kanawha County, W. Va., judge has dismissed a lawsuit that accused a St. Albans body shop owner of illegally installing junkyard parts on new vehicles. Former Attorney General Darrell McGraw filed the lawsuit in 2011...
Judge Trims BP Oil Spill Fine to $13.7B
Jan 15 2015 // BP Plc will face a maximum fine of $13.7 billion under the Clean Water Act for its Gulf of Mexico oil spill, several billion less than feared, after a judge found on Thursday the size of the spill was smaller than the U.S....
New York AG to Propose Legislation to Strengthen Data Security Law
Jan 15 2015 // New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman will propose legislation on Thursday that he says would make the state’s data security law the strongest in the country and require “unprecedented safeguards”...
New U.S. Rules on Cuba Ease Travel, Trade, Insurance Restrictions
Jan 15 2015 // The United States rolled out a sweeping set of measures on Thursday to ease the half-century-old embargo against Cuba, opening up the country to expanded travel, trade and financial activities. Defying hardline critics in...
P/C Insurers See Surge in Cyber Insurance, M&A Activity in 2015
Jan 15 2015 // Property/casualty insurance executives overwhelmingly predict growth in both cyber insurance and merger and acquisitions (M&A) activity in 2015, according to a new Insurance Information Institute annual...
Cybersecurity Bill Faces Tough Sledding on Capitol Hill
Jan 15 2015 // President Barack Obama’s bid to get Congress to pass stalled cybersecurity legislation is seen as having an uphill fight amid differences between Republicans and the administration over privacy safeguards and other...
Virginia Judge Orders New Trial on Damages in Coal Contract Dispute
Jan 14 2015 // A Virginia judge has ordered a new trial on damages in a coal contract dispute between Massey Energy and the owner of three defunct coal companies. In May 2014, a jury in Buchanan County, Virginia, awarded $4 million to...
President Urges Congress to Pass Bipartisan Cybersecurity Legislation
Jan 14 2015 // President Barack Obama sought to rally Congress to pass stalled U.S. cybersecurity legislation, an effort that may face obstacles as tensions with key Republicans quickly began to surface. Obama announced Tuesday revised...
It’s Time to Act on Trucking Safety Ideas, Says NTSB
Jan 14 2015 // Highway regulators have failed to act on more than 100 recommendations to improve truck safety at a time when fatalities have risen for four straight years, according to the U.S. National Transportation Safety...
