A Florida senator is repeating his call for the ousting of the state’s insurance commissioner, calling his behavior “reprehensible” and saying he is no longer trustworthy.

Following what the Obama Administration is calling “a massive and potentially unprecedented environmental disaster” in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the president has sent Congress a legislative package, including a measure to raise the liability caps for oil firms.

This August, Missouri voters will be the first in the nation decide whether to accept the mandates included in the recently signed federal health care reform, thanks to a bill passed by its legislators.

The Congressional Budget Office has revised its estimate for the cost of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, indicating that it will require at least $115 billion more over the next decade than first thought.

Legislation to offer extended health benefits to New Jersey residents left jobless following the closure of a business is now headed to the full state Senate for consideration.

A bill prohibiting specific uses of funds from the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund may not have been acted upon this year, but the anger by state legislators is likely to result in the matter being revisited in the next General Assembly session.

The U.S. House of Representatives is taking a proactive step to approve another short-term extension of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) rather than let it expire, as it has done twice in recent months.

The difficulties coastal property owners in New York are having obtaining homeowners’ insurance will be discussed at a hearing today (May 10).

Two insurance bills, including one to allow captive insurers companies to operate in New Jersey, are expected to move through the state’s General Assembly.

Gov. David A. Paterson has signed a new law that takes effect immediately to increase access to health care for volunteer fire and ambulance workers in New York.