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GOP Study: Med Mal Reform Would Save Cash, Improve Care
May 8 2003 // The shortcomings of the medical liability system have driven up health insurance premiums and reduced access to medical care, according to a new Republican-controlled congressional study. The new study released by the...
Fla. Senate Fails to Pass House Bill on Workers’ Comp Reform
May 7 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers reported its disappointment in the Florida Legislature’s failure to pass legislation workers’ compensation reform legislation by the end of its regular session May 2. The...
Florida Association Urges Senate to PIP Reform Bill
Apr 28 2003 // The Florida Property and Casualty Association announced that Florida’s top auto insurance companies are strongly urging the Florida Senate to pass the Motor Vehicle Insurance Affordability Act. Senate Bill 1202 has...
Senate Bills Reportedly Increasing Choice, Lowering Premiums in La. Passes Committee
Apr 25 2003 // A Senate panel this week approved two major bills that would reportedly change the way insurance rates are regulated in Louisiana, bringing more companies and competition into the state. The measures, Senate Bill 721 and...
Credit Scoring Bill Passes Georgia Senate
Apr 21 2003 // The Georgia Senate unanimously approved legislation allowing insurers to use credit-based insurance scores in underwriting and rating homeowners and auto insurance coverage, according to the American Insurance Association...
NAII Unhappy with Ore. Credit Bill’s Advancement to Senate
Apr 16 2003 // The Oregon Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously voted to pass Senate Bill 260, which would prohibit insurance carriers from using credit information for underwriting and rating policies, the National Association of...
Senate Judiciary Comm. Passes Class Action Reform
Apr 14 2003 // The Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday passed S. 274, the Class Action Fairness Act of 2003, legislation that would reportedly help rein in out-of-control class action awards by limiting the practice of “venue...
Fla. Senate Committee Passes No-Fault Measure Backed by AIA
Apr 9 2003 // The Florida Senate’s Banking & Insurance Committee gave its approval to no-fault legislation containing many reforms advocated by the American Insurance Association (AIA). According to the AIA, the Motor Vehicle...
Senate Passes Insurance Reform Bill
Apr 4 2003 // The Texas Senate passed, on a 28-3 vote, Senate Bill 14, major insurance reform legislation that addresses rate regulation and the use of credit-based insurance scores, among other things. Generally, the bill regulates the...
Water Claims Legislation Passes TX Senate Committee
Mar 27 2003 // Legislation authored by Texas Senator Troy Fraser to speed insurance companies’ response to water damage claims, limit the amount insurers can charge homeowners for previous water damage claims, and require the...
SENATE WANTS RATE ROLL BACK
Mar 24 2003 // Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst is working with the members of the Texas Senate to reach a consensus on driving homeowners insurance rates down by 12 to 15 percent, according to a Senate announcement. The chair of the...
Senate Repubs Reportedly Bent on Destroying Fla. Tort Reform Efforts
Mar 21 2003 // “It appears you no longer have to be a Democrat to be a friend of the trial bar in Florida,” William Stander, government affairs representative in Tallahassee for the Alliance of American Insurers (AAI),...
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...
