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CT Senate Passes Sweeping Consumer Protection Bill The Connecticut Senate passed an expansive consumer protection bill ( SB 5 ). Among other things, the measure would require service providers such as...
Social Media Warning Label Legislation Catching on in States Although Congress hasn’t responded to former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s call last June to take up legislation requiring...
OR Lawmakers Pass Age Discrimination Bill Oregon’s legislature passed a bill ( HB 3187 ) that would prohibit an employer from requesting an applicant’s age, date of birth or date of graduation...
WI Assembly Passes Multiple Healthcare Bills Wisconsin’s Assembly passed multiple healthcare-related bills with broad bipartisan support. One ( AB 43 ) would allow pharmacists to prescribe birth...
A nightmare may be coming to life for social media companies in Minnesota. There, Democrats in the state Legislature have embraced a pioneering bill, SB 3197 , which seeks to levy the nation’s...
A bill (SB 76) reforming property insurance and roofing contractor practices in Florida was just signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on June 11 and won’t officially take effect until July 1. But by some accounts it’s already having a positive impact on the state’s beleaguered insurance market.
Florida Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier said he’s starting to see an increase in the number of homeowners policies private carriers are picking up across the state. And Rep. Bob Rommel (R), who authored the House version of the bill (HB 305), said insurers have also been showing greater willingness to enter the state’s market since SB 76 was passed. (INSURANCE JOURNAL, STATE NET)
California has been encouraging the rebuilding of homes in areas destroyed by wildfires, according to a study by the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Community Innovation. The researchers found that state and local policies in California emphasize the retrofitting of existing homes, the securing of defensible space around homes and community evacuation plans rather than incentivizing residents to move to lower-risk areas. Insurers paid out $100 million a year in fire insurance claims in the state, on average, from 1964 to 1990 and about $26 billion after the 2017 and 2018 fire seasons. (INSURANCE JOURNAL)
Michigan’s Department of Insurance and Financial Services has issued a bulletin (2021-27-INS) reminding property/casualty insurers that they aren’t permitted to rely on “zero-dollar claims” in their insureds’ loss histories. The DIFS said some P/C insurers have been taking such claims, which include claims that were filed but withdrawn before the insurer paid them, into account when making rate, underwriting and renewal decisions. (INSURANCE JOURNAL)
The incidence of motor vehicle-related trauma in Houston decreased by a third for every 1,000 rideshare rides, according to a study by The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). The study also found a reduction in the average number of daily impaired driving convictions, from 22.5 to 19, since 2014, when rideshare companies began operating in the city. (INSURANCE JOURNAL)
-- Compiled by KOREY CLARK
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