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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...
N.Y. Senate Passes Two Insurance Fraud Bills
Mar 10 2003 // At least the New York Senate seems to have heard the messages from the NAII and the PIANY. It passed two bills last week dealing with insurance fraud. The next hurdle will come when the state’s Assembly considers the...
Workers’ Comp Second Injury Fund Sunset Extension Moves to Iowa Senate
Mar 7 2003 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) said today that it strongly supports a five-year extension of the law that allows insurer assessments for Iowa’s workers’ compensation second injury fund to be based on...
Kan. Senate Passes ‘Sole-Basis’ Scoring Bill
Mar 6 2003 // The Kansas Senate has voted 39-0 for legislation that would prohibit insurers from using credit-based insurance scoring as the sole basis for underwriting and rating personal lines insurance. Senate Bill 144 is a hybrid of...
New Med-Mal Petition Introduced to Nev. Senate
Feb 25 2003 // Doctor-sponsored Initiative Petition 1 (IP1) was introduced to the Nevada Senate Feb. 21, in response to the medical malpractice crisis inflicting Nevada’s doctors—in particular, obstetricians, according to the...
Senate Privacy Bill Could Impede Progress in Calif. Business Climate
Feb 19 2003 // The Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) says a California consumer privacy bill that was set to be heard in the Senate Judiciary Committee Feb. 18 is unnecessary because current state law and department of...
Pa. Hospitals Applaud House Republicans’ Request for State of Emergency
Feb 18 2003 // The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) recognized state House Republicans as they called for Governor Ed Rendell (D) to declare a state of emergency in the Commonwealth as a result of the...
Senate Holds Hearing for Medical Litigation
Feb 13 2003 // The Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee held a joint hearing this week on “Patient Access Crisis: The Role of Medical Litigation.” Judiciary Chairman Orrin...
Senate Dems Move to Strip Med Mal Antitrust Exemption
Feb 13 2003 // Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and eight other Senate Democrats have introduced a bill that would strip medical liability insurers of their immunity to anti-trust laws. The Medical Malpractice Act of 2003 (S. 352) would amend...
First Insurance Bill Passes Texas Senate
Feb 13 2003 // The Texas Senate passed legislation that requires all insurers writing residential property insurance to make a one-time data report to the insurance commissioner for use in a report to the legislature on underwriting....
Georgia Senate Introduces Civil Justice Reform Bill
Feb 13 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) said that over 20 Georgia senators are sponsoring a bipartisan civil justice reform act designed to address the high cost of health care and patient...
NAII Supports Medical Liability Reform Efforts in Senate
Feb 6 2003 // Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP), joined Senators Rick Santorum (R-Pa.),...
AIA Says NY Senate Has Opportunity for Real No-fault Reform
Jan 24 2003 // A recent bulletin from the American Insurance Association indicates that the New York State Senate’s consideration of a proposed auto insurance reform package “presents a real opportunity to fix a broken...
Florida Insurers Present Senate Committee with PIP Fixes
Jan 14 2003 // Representatives of the Florida insurance industry, including the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), outlined to a Senate committee an all-inclusive package of reforms designed to address the state’s...
NAII Praising Senate for Including Risk-Sharing Mechanisms in Terrorism Reinsurance Bill
Nov 22 2002 // The Senate’s recent approval of H.R. 3210, the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002, puts the bill on the desk of President Bush, who is expected to sign the legislation Dec. 2. The new legislation creates a...
Pa. Senate Rejects Ban on Use of Credit-Based Scores
Nov 20 2002 // A last-minute effort to prohibit the use of credit-based insurance scores in auto insurance underwriting and rating was rejected by the Pennsylvania Senate. National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) Counsel Ann...
AAI Lauds Senate Approval of Terrorism Legislation
Nov 20 2002 // Alliance of American Insurers President Rodger Lawson, is praising Tuesday’s Senate passage of the Terrorism Risk Protection Act Conference Report, HR 3210, as “another important step on the road to insurance...
