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Texas Senate Passes Tort Reform Bill
May 20 2003 // The Texas Senate announced it approved Senate Committee Substitute to House Bill (CSHB) 4, which is aimed at ending what some Senators call lawsuit abuse. Mount Pleasant Senator Bill Ratliff said the bill strikes a fair...
Senate Commerce Committee Approves PIANJ’s Agent Ownership Bill
May 16 2003 // A bill that would protect agent’s ownership of their expirations, initiated by the Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey, has been released in a unanimous vote by the State’ Senate’s Commerce...
Illinois Docs Rally, Urge U.S. Senate to Act
May 14 2003 // Thousands of patients, physicians and other supporters of medical liability reform gathered in Chicago’s Daley Plaza to urge federal lawmakers to fix an out-of-control legal system that is seriously threatening...
Surplus Lines Bill Passes La. House, Senate Battle Next
May 14 2003 // The Louisiana Surplus Lines Association is urging its members to keep the pressure on state lawmakers to pass House Bill 1476, which would exempt certain surplus lines insurers from a decades old, largely un-enforced law...
GOP Study: Med Mal Reform Would Save Cash, Improve Care
May 8 2003 // The shortcomings of the medical liability system have driven up health insurance premiums and reduced access to medical care, according to a new Republican-controlled congressional study. The new study released by the...
Fla. Senate Fails to Pass House Bill on Workers’ Comp Reform
May 7 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers reported its disappointment in the Florida Legislature’s failure to pass legislation workers’ compensation reform legislation by the end of its regular session May 2. The...
Florida Association Urges Senate to PIP Reform Bill
Apr 28 2003 // The Florida Property and Casualty Association announced that Florida’s top auto insurance companies are strongly urging the Florida Senate to pass the Motor Vehicle Insurance Affordability Act. Senate Bill 1202 has...
Senate Bills Reportedly Increasing Choice, Lowering Premiums in La. Passes Committee
Apr 25 2003 // A Senate panel this week approved two major bills that would reportedly change the way insurance rates are regulated in Louisiana, bringing more companies and competition into the state. The measures, Senate Bill 721 and...
Credit Scoring Bill Passes Georgia Senate
Apr 21 2003 // The Georgia Senate unanimously approved legislation allowing insurers to use credit-based insurance scores in underwriting and rating homeowners and auto insurance coverage, according to the American Insurance Association...
NAII Unhappy with Ore. Credit Bill’s Advancement to Senate
Apr 16 2003 // The Oregon Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously voted to pass Senate Bill 260, which would prohibit insurance carriers from using credit information for underwriting and rating policies, the National Association of...
Senate Judiciary Comm. Passes Class Action Reform
Apr 14 2003 // The Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday passed S. 274, the Class Action Fairness Act of 2003, legislation that would reportedly help rein in out-of-control class action awards by limiting the practice of “venue...
Fla. Senate Committee Passes No-Fault Measure Backed by AIA
Apr 9 2003 // The Florida Senate’s Banking & Insurance Committee gave its approval to no-fault legislation containing many reforms advocated by the American Insurance Association (AIA). According to the AIA, the Motor Vehicle...
Senate Passes Insurance Reform Bill
Apr 4 2003 // The Texas Senate passed, on a 28-3 vote, Senate Bill 14, major insurance reform legislation that addresses rate regulation and the use of credit-based insurance scores, among other things. Generally, the bill regulates the...
Water Claims Legislation Passes TX Senate Committee
Mar 27 2003 // Legislation authored by Texas Senator Troy Fraser to speed insurance companies’ response to water damage claims, limit the amount insurers can charge homeowners for previous water damage claims, and require the...
SENATE WANTS RATE ROLL BACK
Mar 24 2003 // Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst is working with the members of the Texas Senate to reach a consensus on driving homeowners insurance rates down by 12 to 15 percent, according to a Senate announcement. The chair of the...
Senate Repubs Reportedly Bent on Destroying Fla. Tort Reform Efforts
Mar 21 2003 // “It appears you no longer have to be a Democrat to be a friend of the trial bar in Florida,” William Stander, government affairs representative in Tallahassee for the Alliance of American Insurers (AAI),...
Coalition, Alliance Hail Senate Passage of NJ Auto Reform Bill, Now Look to Assembly for Action
Mar 21 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers and the Coalition for Auto Insurance Competition both hailed the passage by the full New Jersey Senate, by a vote of 30-4-7, of legislation aimed at reforming what the Alliance called...
AIA Commends NJ Senate on Passage of Auto Insurance Reform Bill
Mar 20 2003 // The American Insurance Association commended the New Jersey Senate Commerce Committee “for its leadership and bipartisan action in passing historic legislation (Senate Committee Substitute/Senate 63) aimed at...
N.J. Senate Commerce Committee Unanimously Passes Auto Reform Bill
Mar 19 2003 // All that lobbying and demonstrating has apparently begun to pay off for New Jersey’s insurance community (See IJ Website Mar.18), as the state’s Senate Commerce Committee unanimously passed an amended version...
Ark. Senate Okays Tort Reform Bill
Mar 17 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) reports the Arkansas Senate has amended and passed a House bill that would reform the state’s civil justice system. “We commend the Arkansas House and...
