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Senate Approves Bill to Hike Arizona Workers’ Injury Benefits
Jun 13 2007 // The Arizona Senate approved a workers’ compensation bill to carry out a business-labor compromise to increase Arizona’s caps on benefits received by employees who are hurt on the job. The Senate’s 24-2...
La. Senate Backs Tax Break for Property Insurance Increases
Jun 6 2007 // People and businesses in Louisiana who are paying higher property insurance premiums since hurricanes Katrina and Rita should get a tax break for those increased costs, the Senate agreed June 4. The tax break proposal by...
Ind. Conseco Complying with Congressional Request for Records
Jun 1 2007 // Ind.-based Conseco Inc. said this week that it is complying with a congressional request for records related to its long-term care health insurance business amid an investigation into the possibility that policyholders...
S.C. Senate Follows House in Approving Coastal Insurance Bill
Jun 1 2007 // The South Carolina Senate has approved omnibus legislation that backers hope will ease the insurance cost and availability crunch facing coastal property owners in the state by providing discounts and tax breaks. The...
La. Senate OKs Bill to Increase Coverage, Costs of Car Insurance
May 31 2007 // Car insurance requirements in Louisiana would be increased, boosting insurance costs for thousands of drivers who carry the minimum insurance needed, under a bill approved by the Senate recently. Supporters of the bill by...
Congressional Democrats to Try to Overturn Court’s Pay-Bias Ruling
May 31 2007 // Congressional Democrats said this week they would try to reverse a Supreme Court decision that limits the time that workers have to sue their employers for pay discrimination. “All Americans deserve equal pay for...
National Cat Fund Gains Congressional Support … But Is It Enough?
May 30 2007 // Unlike Florida’s Capitol in Tallahassee, where lawmakers have taken a number of actions to address the state’s insurance crisis with arguable results, solutions at the federal level have been hard to come...
La. Senate Votes to Abolish Insurance Rating Commission
May 25 2007 // Louisiana should abolish the commission of political appointees that regulates the insurance industry, the state Senate has voted, a move supported by the insurance industry. Senators voted 30-6 to approve a bill by Sen....
Minn. Senate Fails to Advance Good Faith Insurance Proposal
May 22 2007 // The Minnesota Senate put a halt on a so-called insurance reform bill that has bedeviled lawmakers this session. What had been called the “good faith” insurance provision would have made it easier for consumers...
Okla. Commissioner Testifies Before U.S. Senate
May 18 2007 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland told members of a U.S. Senate committee recently that federal law is impeding the ability of insurance commissioners to protect the elderly who buy Medicare managed care...
Senate Panel Advances Vehicle Backover Safety Bill
May 18 2007 // New vehicles would need to offer more safety features to address backovers and other potentially devastating accidents involving children under legislation approved this week by a Senate committee. Automakers would be...
Insurers Urge S.C. Senate to Accept House Version of Workers’ Comp Bill
May 17 2007 // The South Carolina House of Representatives unanimously approved a workers’ compensation reform measure that is stronger than the version passed last month by the Senate, according to the American Insurance...
Former Florida GOP Chairman, Insurance Agent Dies at 84
May 16 2007 // William M. Taylor, a former chairman of the Florida Republican Party, has died. He was 84. Taylor, an insurance agent for 50 years, grew up in Thomasville, Ga., The Florida Times-Union reported. He moved to Jacksonville as...
Dale Back on Miss. Democratic Ballot
May 16 2007 // Mississippi’s longtime insurance commissioner, George Dale, is back on the Democratic Party primary ballot. Calhoun County Circuit Judge Henry Lackey on Monday reversed a Democratic Executive Committee decision that...
Delaware Senate Bill Permits Restricted Use of Credit Scores
May 11 2007 // The Delaware Senate this week approved legislation that allows insurance companies to continue using credit-based insurance scores while putting in place additional consumer safeguards. Senate Bill 31 as originally...
La. Senate Approves Privatization of Citizens Insurance
May 11 2007 // Louisiana should privatize its state-run “insurer of last resort,” the fastest-growing property insurance company since hurricanes Katrina and Rita sent homeowners and commercial policies upward, the state...
N.Y. Senate confirms Dinallo as insurance superintendent
May 7 2007 // The New York State Senate has confirmed Governor Eliot Spitzer’s nomination of Eric Dinallo as the new superintendent of the New York State Insurance Department. He has been serving as acting superintendent since...
Miss. Elections Commission: Running as Democrat is Dale’s Only Option
May 4 2007 // The Mississippi Elections Commission said this week that Insurance Commissioner George Dale should not be allowed to seek office this year as an independent. “The only relief Dale is entitled to would be placement on...
Fla. Senate Says No to Requiring Storm Shutters in High-Risk Areas
May 2 2007 // The Florida Senate has voted against requiring people with houses worth $300,000 or more in much of the state to buy hurricane shutters the next time they make any major home improvement. Critics said too many people...
Ore. Senate Committee To Allow Preteens on ATVs
Apr 26 2007 // All-terrain vehicle riders and those concerned about their safety have reached a compromise that would keep preteen children on the popular machines. An Oregon Senate committee announced a plan Monday that would require...
