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Senate Committee Votes to End Direct Farm Subsidies, Backs New Insurance Plan
Apr 27 2012 // U.S. farmers will get a new crop-subsidy program that protects them from ruinous declines in revenue, the biggest threat to survival with today’s high and volatile prices, a Senate committee decided on Thursday. The...
Conn. Senate Passes Anti-Price-Gouging Bill to Help Homeowners
Apr 26 2012 // The Connecticut Senate has voted to expand consumer protections from price gouging during major storms, such as the freak October snow storm that hit the state last year. Senators voted 33-to-3 Wednesday in favor of the...
GOP: Set Up Panel To Pay Colo. Wildfire Victims
Apr 26 2012 // Republicans want to create a commission to pay victims of a wildfire southwest of Denver, Colo. that killed three people and damaged two dozen homes, lawmakers said. A bill expected to be introduced this week would...
Montana GOP Candidates Embrace Insurance Industry Bills
Apr 23 2012 // Republican candidates for governor said on April 19 at a forum that they would back key insurance industry legislation if elected, and largely held similar positions with each other on a variety of issues. Most of the GOP...
Senate Bill Would Revamp Federal Crop Insurance Program
Apr 23 2012 // U.S. farm subsidies would get a 21st Century make-over to protect grower revenue from ruinous losses, the biggest threat to their operations from today’s high and volatile market prices, under a bill unveiled by...
Republicans Prepare Should Supreme Court Overturn Healthcare Plan
Apr 23 2012 // Republicans in Congress are getting ready to answer an election-year question that has dogged the party’s campaign for months: How would it replace President Barack Obama’s healthcare law if the measure is...
Oklahoma Senate Approves Workers’ Comp Alternative
Apr 20 2012 // Oklahoma companies would be allowed to opt out of the state’s traditional workers’ compensation system and instead self-insure or have alternative coverage under new guidelines outlined in a bill approved on...
Oklahoma GOP Lawmakers Revisit Severe Weather Liability Policy
Apr 18 2012 // Oklahoma House Republicans are developing a comprehensive liability protection policy for Oklahomans who offer shelter to others during severe weather. House Bill 2296, which would offer liability protection to mobile home...
New York State Senate Passes Auto Insurance Fraud Measures
Apr 16 2012 // New York lawmakers want to slam the brakes on the auto insurance fraud. Late last month, the state’s Senate passed three bills to fight auto insurance fraud. These measures are now in the state Assembly for...
Calif. Senate Panel Oks Coastal Conservancy Climate Change Plan
Apr 10 2012 // A plan to help ensure the California Coastal Conservancy can work on addressing climate change was approved by the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee. Senate Bill 1066, authored by state Sen. Ted W. Lieu,...
Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Bill Goes Back to Senate
Apr 9 2012 // The Mississippi House last Thursday advanced a bill to make changes that manufacturers and business groups are seeking in the workers’ compensation system. Senate Bill 2576 passed the House 59-58 and returns to the...
Missouri Senate Backs Study of State-Created Workers’ Compensation Insurer
Apr 6 2012 // The Missouri Senate has endorsed the establishment of a special committee to study whether to change a state-created workers’ compensation insurer. Senators gave initial approval on April 4 to a bill creating a...
Hamm Gets North Dakota Republican Backing for Insurance Job
Apr 4 2012 // Republicans are sticking with Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm as their choice for North Dakota’s top insurance regulator. At the North Dakota GOP state convention on March 31, delegates endorsed Hamm for...
Mass. Senate Candidate Warren Continues to Condemn AIG’s Tax Break
Apr 2 2012 // U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts continues to criticize the government for granting American International Group billions of dollars worth of tax breaks, calling it “a stealth...
Missouri Senate Votes to Override Veto on Workers’ Comp
Apr 2 2012 // The Missouri Senate has voted to override Gov. Jay Nixon’s earlier veto of a bill that would change workers’ compensation laws by barring some lawsuits over workplace injuries. The Republican-controlled...
Mississippi House Sends Workers’ Comp Bill to Senate
Apr 2 2012 // Mississippi House members now favor changes to the state’s workers’ compensation system after previously voting against them. House members voted 60-56 last Thursday to pass Senate Bill 2576, which proponents...
Maryland House, Senate Pass Health Exchange Bill
Mar 28 2012 // The Maryland General Assembly has passed a measure to create a framework for a health insurance marketplace to provide coverage to the uninsured. The House of Delegates and state Senate voted 94-44 and 35-12, respectively,...
Missouri Republicans Ponder Next Move on Vetoed Business Bills
Mar 26 2012 // Republican lawmakers in Missouri are trying to decide what they will do next on two pieces of business legislation recently vetoed by Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon. One measure would require workers who bring wrongful...
N.Y. State Senate Passes Auto Insurance Fraud Measures
Mar 23 2012 // New York lawmakers want to slam the brakes on the auto insurance fraud. On Thursday, the state’s Senate passed three bills to fight auto insurance fraud. These measures will now move to the state Assembly for...
Measure Limiting Asbestos Liability Clears Idaho Senate
Mar 22 2012 // Bottle-cap maker Crown Holdings might want to pop the top off a celebratory bottle, after a bill to limit its asbestos liability in Idaho cleared the Senate and headed to Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter for...
