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By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel With many members calling for continued discussion about third party bad faith reform and no definite promise from the bill sponsor to amend the bill to add bad faith, the House Insurance and Banking Subcommittee approved HB 771, the PIP repeal bill, during its meeting on February 4, 2020.…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 1205 deals with disclosures from health care providers to patients when the cash price for a covered medical service is cheaper than the patient’s cost sharing obligation under health insurance. The bill is one of a large number of House health care reform bills designed to further Speaker…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel Bills regulating electric bikes (e-bikes) and essentially treating them like bikes that are pedaled passed committees in the House and Senate on February 3, 2020 despite concerns about bikes going up to 28 mph being used on pedestrian walkways. The House bill, HB 971, was not amended. The Senate…