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Biden Administration Seeks to Exclude Medical Debt from Credit Scores The Biden administration announced plans to develop new rules that would prevent unpaid medical bills from counting towards consumers’...
CA Assembly Passes Data Delete Act California’s Assembly passed a bill ( SB 362 ) that would let consumers request the deletion of data collected on them by third-party brokers with the click of...
CA Legislature Approves $25 Healthcare Worker Minimum Wage On the last day of this year’s regular session, California lawmakers passed a bill ( SB 525 ) that would phase in a nation-leading $25...
Just last month, Illinois became one of the latest states to enact a law requiring parties involved in healthcare mergers to observe a waiting period before closing their transactions. The bill, HB 2222...
TX Judge Strikes Down ‘Death Star’ Law A county judge in Texas declared the state’s new so-called “Death Star” law preempting local ordinances, including those mandating...
Between 2011 and 2021, 90 percent of counties in the United States suffered a hurricane, flood, wildfire, drought or other natural event severe enough to have been declared a federal disaster, according to a report from Rebuild by Design, a nonprofit created by the Department of Housing and Urban Development shortly after Hurricane Sandy in 2012 to research how to address climate change. Over 700 counties endured five or more federally declared disasters over that 11-year period, the report said.
The states with the most such disasters - at least 20 each - were California, Iowa, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Tennessee. But the report said five other states, Louisiana, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota and Vermont, actually received the most federal disaster funding per person. (NEW YORK TIMES, INSURANCE JOURNAL, REBUILD BY DESIGN)
Insurance agents and brokers doing business in California will be subject to new requirements at the start of next year. Under legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) in September (SB 1242) producers will be required to report suspected fraud to the California Department of Insurance within 60 days of determining it may have occurred. The law will also require prospective and current licensees to complete an hour of study on insurance fraud as part of their continuing education requirements. It will also require the state insurance commissioner to submit fingerprint images and other information from applicants for licensing to the Department of Justice for criminal background checking, meaning applicants that fail to disclose prior criminal convictions will likely be denied a license. (INSURANCE JOURNAL, STATE NET)
-- Compiled by KOREY CLARK