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Democrat Stewart Wins Delaware Insurance Commissioner Race
Nov 5 2008 // Democrat Karen Weldin Stewart rolled to victory in the race to be Delaware’s next insurance commissioner. She defeated Republican John F. Brady, 56.9 percent to 41 percent in the final tally. The former state...
Top Republican Lawmaker Asks AIG to Explain Use of Federal Funds
Nov 3 2008 // U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, has asked troubled insurer American International Group Inc to provide full details of its use of a $123 billion government bailout. AIG,...
Connecticut Insurance Broker to Fill GOP Slot as Honorary Candidate
Oct 30 2008 // A Bristol, Connecticut insurance broker says he’s filling in as the Republican candidate in the 76th Assembly District race to honor the original candidate who apparently took his own life last week. David L. Norton...
GOP Candidate Challenges Sen. Kerry on AIG Bailout
Oct 10 2008 // Democratic Sen. John Kerry’s Republican challenger in Massachusetts called on him to sell any stock he has in insurance giant American International Group and donate all campaign contributions from officials at the...
Wall Street Looks to House After Senate Approves Rescue Measure
Oct 2 2008 // Shockwaves from the global credit crisis spread on Thursday, threatening industry and jobs worldwide and putting pressure on the U.S. Congress to finish up a $700 billion bailout of the U.S. financial sector. The fate of...
Senate to Vote Tonight on Revised Wall Street Bailout with Tax Cuts
Oct 1 2008 // Leaders in the U.S. Congress have deployed their best weapon for winning passage of a $700 billion financial industry bailout just weeks before the elections, attaching tax cuts to an otherwise bitter pill. The Senate aims...
Protestor at GOP Convention to File Brutality Lawsuit
Sep 29 2008 // An anti-war protester who claims he was shot with a police projectile at close range during the Republican National Convention in St. Paul announced on September 26 that he is planning to sue the city of St. Paul and...
House Republicans Offer Insurance Plan to Rescue Wall Street
Sep 26 2008 // Conservative Republicans in the U.S. House have offered an alternative to a $700 billion government bailout of Wall Street that they say would rely on private capital markets, rather than taxpayers, to free up frozen...
Illinois Senate Panel Okays 3rd Attempt at Autism Coverage
Sep 24 2008 // An Illinois Senate committee wants to require insurance companies to cover expanded treatment for autism. It’s the Senate’s third attempt this year to approve the measure, which would require insurers to cover...
Democratic, Republican Senate Banking Leaders Cool to AIG Loan
Sep 16 2008 // Both leaders of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee Tuesday expressed reservations about the federal government intervening to help insurer American International Group Inc. Connecticut Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd,...
Minn. GOP Convention Officials Bought Liability Coverage in First Time Deal
Sep 5 2008 // Taxpayers should be off the hook for any damages stemming from claims of police misconduct related to the Republican National Convention under a first-of-its-kind agreement. The deal required the Republican Party’s...
GOP Platform Calls for Natural Disaster Insurance Reform
Sep 5 2008 // The Republican National Committee pledged its support to improve federal natural disaster insurance as part of its platform. The GOP’s support of federal disaster insurance reform follows the Democratic National...
3 Democrats Vie in Sept. 9 Primary for Delaware Insurance Commissioner Post
Sep 1 2008 // One of the three Democrats vying for the party’s nomination for the Delaware insurance commissioner post formally launched her campaign with just three weeks before the Sept. 9 primary. Karen Weldin Stewart promised...
California Senate Committee Passes Pay-As-You-Drive Legislation
Sep 1 2008 // Legislation that would allow insurers to more accurately base auto insurance premiums on how many miles a motorist drives passed the California Senate Appropriations Committee. Proposition 103 requires insurers to set...
Bush Administration Wants More Notice on Workplace Hazard Rules
Aug 29 2008 // The Bush administration is proposing that workplace hazard standards be subject to more public and expert scrutiny before being adopted. Critics say the proposals could make it harder to limit worker exposure to...
Democrat Stewart Launches Campaign for Delaware Insurance Post
Aug 20 2008 // With just three weeks until Democrats choose their nominee for insurance commissioner, one of the three candidates vying for the nomination has formally launched her campaign. Karen Weldin Stewart made her campaign...
California Senate Committee Passes Pay-As-You-Drive Legislation
Aug 8 2008 // Legislation that would allow insurers to more accurately base auto insurance premiums exactly on how many miles a motorist drives passed the California Senate Appropriations Committee. Proposition 103 requires insurers to...
Alabama Insurance Agent Parker Wins Republican Runoff
Aug 4 2008 // Huntsville insurance agent Wayne Parker won the Republican nomination for an open U.S. House seat in Alabama. In the 5th District in north Alabama, Parker received 79 percent to 21 percent for Huntsville lawyer Cheryl...
Senate Banking Committee Urged to Back Federal Insurance Regulation
Jul 30 2008 // The U.S. regulatory structure for the insurance industry puts companies at a disadvantage overseas and stifles innovation and competition for consumers, the industry told U.S. lawmakers Tuesday. At a Senate Banking...
Democrats Press Labor Department on OSHA Rule on Chemical Exposure
Jul 25 2008 // Leading lawmakers this week accused the Bush administration of acting in secret to make it harder to limit worker exposure to carcinogens and other dangerous chemicals in the workplace. The Labor Department is trying...
