A bipartisan bill that would provide broader workers’ compensation coverage to previously ineligible business entities in Pennsylvania is scheduled for a hearing before the state’s House Labor and Industry Committee March 23.

The Baltimore chapter of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors will hold its annual legislative breakfast Thursday, Dec. 16, at the Radisson Hotel at Cross Keys in Baltimore, Md.

A bill regulating the use of senior-specific professional designations and business practices by insurance agents and brokers was passed by the Pennsylvania House Insurance Committee last week.

A consumer group says California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plan to “withdraw weak pseudo-reforms” of the health insurance industry would bar strong regulation of health insurers.

Rhode Island is an interesting state. First, it’s the smallest, just 1,214 square miles. Compare that to the Chicago metropolitan area, where I live, which comprises 5,000 square miles. Why both Mayor Daley and Cook County tax something the size of Rhode Island three times before lunch.

Wisconsin drivers must be able to provide proof of auto insurance under a new law that took effect June 1, leaving New Hampshire as the only state not mandating coverage.

WellPoint, the nation’s largest health insurer by medical membership, plans to unilaterally implement key provisions of the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act introduced in Congress.

A series of proposed new regulations in Massachusetts, calling for greater consumer protections in the auto insurance marketplace, are both ‘unnecessary and ill-advised,” according to an industry group.

Unable to reach consensus on either a short- or long-term extension on the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), legislators in Washington, D.C., will let the federal program lapse as of the first day of the hurricane season.

Four bills to reform workers’ compensation in Oklahoma were sent to the governor, including one that would require legislative approval of judges overseeing benefits for injured workers.