Senate committee meetings continue under the Gold Dome as this report is published on Wednesday. With the Senate’s requirement that bills pass out of committee before the chamber convenes for Legislative Day 38, legislators...more
While legislators and lobbyists continued to nurse the hangover of Crossover Day, the most unlikely of events unfolded in the Georgia State Senate on Monday. Senate Majority Leader Steve Gooch (R-Dahlonega) awarded the...more
On May 31, Gov. DeSantis signed a new law that enacts several wide-ranging regulatory requirements on insurers transacting business in Florida. The regulatory changes instituted by the new Insurer Accountability Act, which...more
On March 24, 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed H.B. 837 into law. This legislation enacts significant and wide-ranging changes to civil litigation practice in the state, including revamping comparative negligence...more
Florida House Bill 837, signed into law on March 24, 2023, implements significant tort reform measures that should interest any company engaging in business in Florida, owning property in Florida or litigating in Florida. The...more
Comprehensive tort reform legislation was passed by the Florida Legislature on Thursday, March 23, 2023. By noon Friday, March 24, 2023, Governor Ron DeSantis signed the legislation, which was one of his pre-session...more
After twelve (12) years of effort, and in what now seems like a blink of an eye during this legislative session, Governor DeSantis signed HB 837/SB 236 into law. This new legislation makes sweeping changes to “bad faith” law...more
HB 837 was introduced to the Florida House of Representatives on February 15, 2023. The bill went quickly through the House of Representatives and Senate and was signed into law on March 24, 2023, by Governor Ron DeSantis....more
On December 16, 2022, Florida’s Governor signed Senate Bill 2A into law, bringing a number of changes to Florida’s insurance litigation landscape. These reforms include an amendment to the Florida law governing offers of...more
Key Takeaways - Senate Bill 2-A signed in September by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will result in notable changes to the state’s property insurance industry, including the end of “One-Way” attorney fees for policyholder...more
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear recently signed House Bill 474 to become the latest state to enact data insurance security legislation. The new law is modeled after the data security law of the National Association of ...more
Work continues under the Gold Dome as this Report went live on Tuesday evening, with legislators in the House and Senate jockeying to get their bills and resolutions across the hall before the gavel falls on Crossover Day...more
In response to calls for greater transparency in the prescription drug industry, 2021 continued a nationwide trend of increased state licensing and regulation of Pharmacy Benefit Managers (“PBMs”). In the last year, laws...more
On December 31, 2021, the Comprehensive Insurance Disclosure Act became the law of the land in New York. The Disclosure Act amends CPLR 3101(f) by significantly expanding the insurance-related information that a defendant...more
New York's novel mandatory disclosure requirement is more extensive than what is required by its federal counterpart, mandating the disclosure of a litany of "information and documentation," accompanied by affidavits from a...more
Cyberattacks on organizations with large consumer databases have been on the rise recently. This is certainly true for the insurance industry, which also has been migrating more business to online platforms in an effort to...more
Two years after implementing meaningful assignment of benefits reform, Florida enacted broader property insurance claim reform. On June 11, 2021, Governor DeSantis sign S.B. 76, which takes effect on July 1, 2021. ...more
Washington has recently adopted legislation (Substitute House Bill 2409 that established Revised Code of Washington 51.14.179) that will impose new licensing and other regulatory requirements on workers compensation Third...more
We have previously reported on New Jersey’s effort to enact legislation prohibiting stranger-originated life insurance (STOLI) and the New Jersey case law leading up to that legislation. See June 2019, December 2019, and...more
On June 20, 2020, the Florida governor signed into law Senate Bill 1392, which, among other things, divests circuit courts of jurisdiction over appeals from county court orders or judgments. Come January 1, 2021, Florida’s...more
A constantly evolving framework of laws governing how multinational businesses can contact customers to how nonprofits report business income to how overtime is calculated and paid will influence how companies do business...more
People often ask me “how much car insurance do I need?” Never has this question been more important than now. Michigan drivers now face the biggest changes in auto No-Fault insurance since the No-Fault Act was enacted in...more
In response to calls for greater transparency in the prescription drug industry, 2019 continued a nationwide trend of increased state licensing and regulation of pharmacy benefit managers (“PBMs”). In the last year, laws...more
IN RESPONSE TO RECORD-BREAKING FIRE LOSSES IN 2017, THE CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR SIGNED THE INSURANCE ADJUSTER ACT OF 2019 INTO LAW ON OCTOBER 3, 2019, WHICH NOW TAKES IMMEDIATE EFFECT TO GOVERN THE USE OF OUT-OF-STATE ADJUSTERS...more
New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu recently signed the New Hampshire Insurance Data Security Law, which “establishes the exclusive state standards applicable to licensees for data security, the investigation of a...more