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Senate, House Get Bipartisan Bills to Repeal Insurance Antitrust Immunity
Feb 15 2007 // Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, joined with Senate Democratic and Republican leaders this week to introduce a bipartisan bill that would strip the insurance industry of its limited...
Motorcycle Helmet Bill Fails in Ark. Senate Committee
Feb 14 2007 // Helmetless motorcyclists need not fear arrest in Arkansas unless the sponsor of a measure to require helmets decides he can muster the votes in the state Senate to remove his proposal from a committee that declined to...
Alabama Senate Leader Calls for Special Session on Coastal Insurance
Feb 8 2007 // Alabama Senate President Pro Tem Hinton Mitchem urged the governor to consider calling the Legislature into special session to address insurance cancellations and skyrocketing costs along the Alabama coast. “The...
Ariz. Senate Votes to Require Affidavits for Auto Theft Reports
Feb 7 2007 // Approving a measure aimed at helping to curb insurance fraud, the Arizona Senate voted to require that a person reporting an auto theft also present police with a signed affidavit. The Senate approved the bill (SB1043) on...
Okla. Senate Committee Passes Bill Protecting Volunteers from Lawsuits
Feb 7 2007 // A measure that will exempt volunteers who provide transportation services for charitable organizations or not-for-profit corporations from liability lawsuits passed out of the Oklahoma Senate Judiciary...
Wis. Senate Confirms Appointment of Sean Dilweg as Commissioner
Feb 5 2007 // The Wisconsin state Senate voted unanimously to confirm the appointment of Sean Dilweg as Commissioner of Insurance to head up the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI). Dilweg was appointed by Governor Doyle on...
Industry leaders debate regulation in wake of Democratic Congress shift
Jan 29 2007 // The Professional Liability Underwriting Society held its international conference in Chicago in late 2006. Moderating a conference panel, television journalist Forrest Sawyer, a 24-year veteran of ABC, CBS and MSNBC,...
Industry leaders debate federal vs. state regulation with Democratic Congress shift
Jan 29 2007 // The Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) held its international conference in Chicago in late 2006. Moderating the panel was television journalist Forrest Sawyer, a 24-year veteran of ABC, CBS and MSNBC, who...
How Democratic Congress might approach federal insurance regulation
Jan 28 2007 // News Currents The Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) held its international conference in Chicago in late 2006. Moderating the panel was television journalist Forrest Sawyer, a 24-year veteran of ABC, CBS...
Fla. House and Senate Expected to Meet Through Weekend to Merge Bills
Jan 19 2007 // Laboring to comply with Gov. Charlie Crist’s call for lowering Florida insurance costs by at least 25 percent during a quick, seven-day special session, both the House and Senate have passed bills promising to do...
Fla. Day 2: Senate Passes 25% Rate Cut; Citizens Would Enter Commercial
Jan 18 2007 // Two days into a special legislative session, after debating 20 amendments, the Florida Senate voted to pass Senate Bill 4-A, a measure which promises an average 25 percent premium cut to homeowners and lets Citizens...
Miss. House Votes $30 Million for Wind Pool; Bill Moves to Senate
Jan 11 2007 // Trying to keep a lid on rising commercial insurance costs along the Gulf Coast, the Mississippi House approved a bill Wednesday to put $30 million into the wind pool program. The House vote was 119-1. The proposal moves to...
Fla. Senate Proposal Would Give Citizens Customers Relief
Jan 10 2007 // Customers of the state’s largest insurer, Citizens Property, would be spared a recent proposed 55 percent increase and see their rates frozen for a year under a massive bill proposed Monday by a state legislative...
Insurance priorities for the U.S. Senate
Jan 8 2007 // Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., is the incoming chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, which has jurisdiction over flood and terrorism insurance, as well as over regulation of insurance, credit...
Insurance priorities for the U.S. Senate
Jan 8 2007 // Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., is the incoming chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, which has jurisdiction over flood and terrorism insurance, as well as over regulation of insurance, credit...
Insurance priorities for the U.S. Senate
Jan 8 2007 // Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., is the incoming chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, which has jurisdiction over flood and terrorism insurance, as well as over regulation of insurance, credit...
Insurance priorities for the U.S. Senate
Jan 8 2007 // Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., is the incoming chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, which has jurisdiction over flood and terrorism insurance, as well as over regulation of insurance, credit...
Insurance priorities for the U.S. Senate
Jan 7 2007 // Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., is the incoming chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, which has jurisdiction over flood and terrorism insurance, as well as over regulation of insurance, credit...
Insurance priorities for the U.S. Senate
Jan 7 2007 // Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., is the incoming chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, which has jurisdiction over flood and terrorism insurance, as well as over regulation of insurance, credit...
CFO Sink Sworn In as Lone Democrat in Fla. Cabinet
Jan 4 2007 // Democrat Alex Sink broke the Republican hold on the state’s executive branch Tuesday when she was sworn in as Florida’ chief financial officer. Sink, a former banking executive, and newly elected Attorney...
