Insurance Law

Citizens Insurance tables rate hike proposal – Sun Sentinel

Board members for Citizens Property Insurance Corp. told staff to study the idea further … The insurer now says it interprets the law to mean only existing polices are subject to the cap. Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, said … Continue reading

Will You Get a Health Insurance Rebate? – Daily Finance

But as part of the health-care reform law that passed two years ago, health insurance companies committed to paying out a certain minimum of the premiums they collected to go toward medical-care claims and productivity enhancements. As it turns …

Daily poll: Should community groups be required to have liability insurance to hold meetings in public libraries? – NJ.com

But city officials say that a law adopted in March requiring groups to have liability insurance to meet at a public facility is not targeting the pro-rent control advocates. The Bayonne Tenant Organization had called a meeting for 7 p.m … Continue reading

Liberty Mutual Insurance Reports First Quarter 2012 Results – Yahoo Finance

changes to insurance laws and regulations; changes in the amount of statutory capital that the Company must hold to maintain its financial strength and credit ratings; regulatory restrictions on the Company’s ability to change its methods of …

Legislature considers servicemen’s insurance law – Xinhua News Agency

BEIJING, April 26 (Xinhua) — A draft law on servicemen’s insurance is among several bills that will be put to a vote at the bi-monthly session of China’s top legislature. The decision was made at the meeting of chairman and … Continue reading

Montana high court hears Hutterite case on workers’ comp law – Billings Gazette

A state judge has already ruled the 2009 law expanding the workers’ compensation law to force the Hutterites to pay for the insurance violated their right to freely exercise their religion. The state is asking the high court to reverse … Continue reading

Insurance rebates totalling $1.3 billion could be on the way this summer, study says – Washington Post

Consumers and businesses will receive about $1.3 billion by this August from insurance plans that failed to meet a new standard in the 2010 health-care law, according to estimates released Thursday by the independent Kaiser Family Foundation. (That’s …

Legislation would end DRPA insurance fee-sharing – Philadelphia Daily News

A New Jersey state legislator said Thursday that she planned to propose a state law to prevent insurance brokers from splitting commissions from public agencies without performing services for those agencies. Sen. Jennifer Beck (R., Monmouth …

Ont. aims to keep victim’s insurance payout from her killer – The Vancouver Sun

Meanwhile, Queen’s University insurance law expert Erik Knutsen said insurance law only removes insurance coverage if it is deemed that an individual’s actions are intentional in order to profit from a crime. A “criminally not responsible ruling …

Ohio struggles to draft tougher law after exotic animals’ escape – msnbc.com

Republican state Senator Troy Balderson said the bill was designed to protect citizens, preserve the rights of law-abiding owners to care for … and cannot afford the required $250,000 dollar insurance policy. Wilcox argued that dogs can kill people …