Regulation/Legislation

To the people who cover Washington, we call it chronicling situational immorality. Not since Bush v. Gore have we seen madness that could compare to this weeks Supreme Court debate over the constitutionality of the healthcare reform law.

March 22, 2012 marked nine years to the day when Alice Ross, a 71-year-old grandmother, was killed in a no-fault auto insurance fraud scheme, and the day when the New York State Senate passed three bills aimed at stemming the multimillion-dollar stage-and-fraud crime trend.

Sixteen state insurance agencies failed a national state-evaluation test, but Mississippi came out on top of the 50-state review.

American International Group Inc.s remaining debt to the U.S. government is about $45 billion after paying an additional $1.5 billion to the U.S. Treasury Department, the company says.

The House took action again today on repealing the McCarran-Ferguson antitrust exemption for health insurers by passing the larger bill to which the repeal amendment was attached.

A bill approved unanimously by a legislative panel in South Carolina on March 21 would make the director of the state insurance agency an elected position.