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MAIF Drops Proposal Seeking to Gain Policy Rights
Sep 9 2013 // The Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund (MAIF) — the auto insurance market of last resort in Maryland — last month withdrew its proposal to gain “sole and exclusive property” rights to all MAIF policies. The...
Judge Orders Armstrong to Answer Doping Questions in Insurer Case
Sep 5 2013 // A Texas judge is pushing Lance Armstrong closer to his first sworn testimony on details of his performance-enhancing drug use, ordering the cyclist to answer questions about who knew what and when about his doping,...
EU Insurers Spent $6.5 Billion on Regulation in 2012: Deloitte Estimate
Sep 5 2013 // Europe’s 40 largest insurers spent as much as €4.9 billion ($6.5 billion) last year complying with new regulations, according to estimates by Deloitte LLP. The cost is equivalent to a one percentage point reduction...
Railroad Industry Wants Delay in Safety Technology Requirement
Sep 4 2013 // Despite a rash of deadly train crashes, the railroad industry’s allies in Congress are trying to push back the deadline for installing technology to prevent the most catastrophic types of collisions until at least...
Missouri Lawmakers Eye Uninsured Motorist Bill for Override
Sep 3 2013 // Driving without auto insurance could mean losing out on court damages if Missouri lawmakers push forward with an effort to override one of Gov. Jay Nixon’s vetoes. Under the legislation, drivers lacking insurance...
Tough-to-Kill New York Buses Drive Through U.S. Law’s Loopholes
Sep 3 2013 // Outside New York’s Winter Garden Theatre, where “Mamma Mia” is nearing the end of a 13-year Broadway run, unwitting tourists board a bus bearing the name of a company U.S. regulators tried to close two...
G20 Urges U.S. to Centralize Insurance Regulation
Aug 29 2013 // The United States could improve how it spots and prevents risks in the financial system from turning into destabilizing crises, a global regulatory task force said on Tuesday. The Financial Stability Board (FSB) said the...
Top New York Court to Decide Whether Towns Can Ban Fracking
Aug 29 2013 // New York’s highest court agreed to decide whether towns and cities have the power to pass anti-fracking laws. The Court of Appeals in Albany today said it will hear arguments in lawsuits seeking to block drilling...
Conn. Supreme Court Reverses Trial Court Ruling, Says Acordia Didn’t Breach CUIPA
Aug 28 2013 // The Connecticut Supreme Court issued a ruling in favor of Acordia insurance brokerage Monday. The Connecticut Supreme Court, the state’s highest court, reversed a lower trial court’s 2010 ruling that previously...
Judge Denies BP’s Bid to Halt Gulf Oil Spill Payments Pending Investigation
Aug 28 2013 // BP Plc lost a renewed bid to suspend payments from the court-supervised program administering its settlement of claims tied to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. An investigation of alleged wrongdoing at the Mobile,...
Texas Fire Marshal: Inspections Refused Since West Blast
Aug 28 2013 // Five facilities in Texas with large quantities of the same fertilizer chemical that fueled the deadly plant explosion in West have turned away state fire marshal inspectors since the blast, investigators said. A railway...
Oklahoma Speaker Lays out Guidelines for Tort Reform Session
Aug 27 2013 // Oklahoma lawmakers will likely take up more than two dozen bills when they convene at the state Capitol next month for a special session dealing with tort legislation, according to House Speaker T.W. Shannon. Shannon,...
Indiana Lawmaker Wants to Lower Rates Homeowners Pay to Insurance Fund
Aug 27 2013 // A state lawmaker concerned about Indiana’s recent move to dip into a fund set aside for repairs to homes damaged by soil shifting above old coal mines wants the state’s insurance commissioner to lower the...
California Assembly Panel Passes Bill On Sex Abuse Lawsuits
Aug 27 2013 // Some victims of childhood sexual abuse would have one more year to file civil lawsuits against private or nonprofit organizations that employed their alleged abusers under a bill that passed a key legislative committee...
Massachusetts High Court Rules for Horace Mann in Policy Reformation Case
Aug 26 2013 // The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the state’s highest court, recently ruled in favor of an insurance carrier in a case involving a mutual misunderstanding by both the homeowners policyholder and an insurance...
Florida Schools Open with More Armed Security
Aug 26 2013 // In the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Pembroke Pines, students returning to school this year are being greeted not only by their teachers and principal. They’re also meeting the armed school resource officer who will be...
Judge Dismisses Harassment Claim Against Chef Paula Deen
Aug 26 2013 // A federal judge on Friday dismissed the final component of a racial discrimination and sexual harassment case against celebrity chef Paula Deen that has cost the Southern culinary star a big chunk of her...
Judges: PG&E Improperly Declared 2 Pipelines Safe in California
Aug 22 2013 // Two judges are threatening to fine Pacific Gas and Electric Co. for improperly declaring two natural-gas pipelines in Northern California safe and using misleading regulatory filings to minimize the problem. The San...
Judges Reject Challenge to Texas State Farm Rates
Aug 21 2013 // Two administrative law judges have rejected a consumer challenge to a recent 20-percent rate hike for Texas homeowners covered by State Farm Lloyd’s. The judges decided on Aug. 19 that the premiums for 1.2 million...
A Roundup of Maryland’s New Insurance Laws From 2013 Legislative Session
Aug 21 2013 // The Maryland Insurance Administration issued a bulletin this week summarizing new insurance legislation from the Maryland General Assembly’s 2013 session that have been signed into law by Gov. Martin O’Malley....
