Regulation/Legislation

Employers are likely to face more claims and bigger exposures in 2010 as sophisticated class actions and collective lawsuits increase along with aggressive government enforcement, a law firm reported.

With health care reform legislation now stalled in Congress, actuaries asked lawmakers not to push forward with the measure if it removes the antitrust exemption for medical malpractice insurers.

Now that the Republicans have won a crucial 41st vote in the U.S. Senate, will any health care reform bill pass Congress this year? That's the query posed to readers on NU's Web site at www.property-casualty.com.

The Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology, Windstorm Mitigation Committee has issued a draft report of its recommendations for fixing the wind mitigation credit program.

A health care analyst and lawyer said today there is growing bipartisan support for repealing the McCarran-Ferguson Act's antitrust exemption for health insurers as a means of helping control health care costs.

Florida Insurance Consumer Advocate Sean Shaw calls on lawmakers to reject the "Consumer Choice" bill aimed at property insurance.