Industry Trades Throw Support Behind Bill to Affirm State Regulation of Insurance July 29, 2025 By Chad Hemenway The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) is supporting a bill first introduced more than 18 months ago to...
Increasing Drone Incidents Near Airports, Stadiums Prompt Alarm, Officials Say July 23, 2025 By David Shepardson U.S. officials told a Senate committee on Tuesday that there have been more than 3,000 drone events near American airports...
Attempts to Reform Litigation Funding Disclosure Continue on the Hill July 22, 2025 By Chad Hemenway Changes to the taxes paid by litigation investors did not make it in the final version of the expansive One...
Tax Increase on Litigation Funders Does Not Make Final Budget Bill July 7, 2025 By Chad Hemenway When Trump’s huge tax bill was signed into law July 4, missing were changes to the taxes third-party litigation funders...
Big I Celebrates Continued Tax Deduction for Many Independent Agents July 7, 2025 The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (Big “I”) last Thursday celebrated the passage of the “One Big Beautiful...
Insurance Industry Rejects Proposed Moratorium on State AI Regulation June 18, 2025 By Chad Hemenway A proposed decade-long moratorium on state regulation of artificial intelligence has gained the attention of many, including those within the...
Effort to Close Litigation Funding Tax Loophole Added to Federal Budget Bill June 17, 2025 By Chad Hemenway Within changes submitted by U.S. Senate Republicans to President Donald Trump’s tax bill is language that would close a tax...
‘Big Beautiful’ Tax Breaks for Insurance Agents in Bill Passed by House, Says Big I May 23, 2025 The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America celebrated a “significant victory” for independent agents with the passage of a...
Stablecoin Bill Advances in US Senate in Big Win for Crypto May 20, 2025 By Steven T. Dennis Stablecoin legislation overcame a procedural blockade in the US Senate, marking a major victory for the crypto industry after a...
US House Bill Reintroduced to Rid Federal Insurance Office of Subpoena Power May 15, 2025 By Chad Hemenway Rep. Scott Fitzgerald on May 15 reintroduced a bill to eliminate the subpoena power of the Federal Insurance Office (FIO)....