Latest Legislation Headlines
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Small, Rural P/C Insurers Seek Tax Change
Jun 2 2014 // About 600 small mutual property/casualty insurers serving rural communities would get a tax break under federal legislation filed last month in Congress. Introduced by Reps. Erik Paulsen, R-Minn., Ron Kind, D- Wis., and...
Court Rules Against Ohio Workers’ Comp Agency in Overcharge Case
Jun 2 2014 // The director of Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers said he’s disappointed with an unusually pointed appeals court decision that says the fund overcharged employers by hundreds of millions of...
Ohio Insurance Director: New Insurance Reforms Benefit Consumers
May 30 2014 // Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor says the passage of reforms to Ohio’s insurance law will help maintain the strength and competitiveness of Ohio’s insurance marketplace while...
N.Y. Orders Narragansett Bay Insurance to Pay $327,400 Fine
May 29 2014 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration announced today that Narragansett Bay Insurance Company will pay a $327,400 penalty for failing to perform timely inspections of Superstorm Sandy damage claims as required...
New Orleans Saints’ Workers’ Comp Bill Dies in Legislature
May 29 2014 // Louisiana state lawmakers are getting out of a dispute between New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson and the NFL team’s players about how to handle workers’ compensation claims for professional athletes. Rep....
Judge Rejects Ex-AIG CEO Greenberg’s Bid to Avoid Trial
May 28 2014 // A New York state judge has rejected a request by Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, the former American International Group Inc. chief executive officer, to dismiss a long-running civil lawsuit by the state’s...
PCI Backs Ride Sharing Rules in Columbus, Wants Chicago to Wait
May 28 2014 // A property/casualty insurance trade group is supporting proposed ride sharing regulations in Columbus, Ohio, but is urging the city council in Chicago, Ill., to delay action on proposed rules in that city. The Property...
Judge Reinstates Harper Lee’s Suit Against Alabama Museum
May 28 2014 // A federal judge has reinstated a lawsuit that “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee filed against a museum in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. U.S. District Judge William Steele signed an order...
FTC Calls for Consumer Disclosure by Data Brokers
May 28 2014 // Companies known as data brokers collect and sell information about “nearly all” U.S. consumers, drawing potentially harmful conclusions about them largely without their knowledge, U.S. regulators said on...
North Carolina Republicans Pursue Deregulation, Product Liability Immunity
May 27 2014 // Since taking over the legislature in 2011, North Carolina Republicans have trumpeted passing legislation designed to draw back the hand of government hanging over the private sector by getting rid of regulations they...
Missouri Legislature OKs Criminal Checks for Health Advisers
May 23 2014 // Despite a federal court order against their current law, Missouri legislators voted to toughen requirements even further for people seeking to work as insurance guides under President Barack Obama’s health care...
North Carolina Senate Votes to Make Disclosure of Fracking Chemicals Illegal
May 23 2014 // The North Carolina Senate on Thursday voted to make it a crime to disclose the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, even as big U.S. oil companies elsewhere consider releasing more information about the...
Report Faults U.S. Oversight of Chemical Plants
May 23 2014 // The government has no way of fully knowing which U.S. chemical facilities stock ammonium nitrate, the substance that exploded last year at a Texas fertilizer plant and killed 14 people, congressional investigators say....
New York Lawmakers Pass Tax Relief Bill for Sandy Victims
May 22 2014 // New York state lawmakers have passed legislation proposed by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio that would prevent higher tax bills for city residents who rebuilt or repaired their homes after they were damaged by...
Dodd-Frank, Flood Insurance Foe Hensarling Faces Test on TRIA Renewal
May 22 2014 // When Jeb Hensarling took over the congressional panel that spawned the Dodd-Frank Act, he vowed to roll back the landmark Wall Street law and eliminate government programs that backstop private markets. More than a year...
Lawmakers Tour Refurbed Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Building
May 21 2014 // Several state House members toured the newly renovated headquarters of the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission. About a half dozen Republican members on Tuesday visited the renovated third-floor of the Denver...
N.Y. Calls for More Oversight for Investment Firms’ Acquisitions of Insurers
May 20 2014 // The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) has proposed new regulations to oversee private equity and investment firms’ acquisitions of insurance companies, especially acquisitions of annuity companies, in...
Judge: Ex-MF Global Execs Can Tap More Insurance Funds to Defend Lawsuits
May 20 2014 // Jon Corzine and other former insiders of collapsed brokerage MF Global can tap another $10 million of insurance funds to defend lawsuits accusing them of hastening the firm’s downfall, a U.S judge said on...
Bill Lets Military Members Keep Car Insurance When Moving to New State
May 19 2014 // Members of the military and their families would be able keep their current auto insurance policies when moving from one state to another state under a bill introduced in Congress. U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.), a senior...
Exxon Not Liable for Alligators in Mississippi Dump, Court Rules
May 19 2014 // Exxon Mobil Corp. isn’t responsible for alligators overrunning a rural dump site it owns in Mississippi, the state supreme court ruled, because the global oil explorer can’t control wild animals. The family...
