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By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel For the second Session, a genetic testing bill related to life insurance has been filed in the House and Senate. The House bill, HB 879, surfaced this week with a new sponsor, Rep. Williamson (R). Last year’s House sponsor, Rep. Brodeur, termed out in 2018. Historically, Rep. Williamson has…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel Sen. Mayfield (R) has again filed a frozen formulary/continuity of prescription care bill. SB 1180 is substantially the same as her bill last year that died in its first committee after Sen. Mayfield refused to make changes to the bill to accommodate health insurers. SB 1180 prohibits individual…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel During its committee meeting on February 13, 2019, the House Insurance and Banking Subcommittee passed a committee substitute for HB 301 (PCS), the House omnibus insurance bill by a vote of 9-4. The “no” votes on the bill were due to the changes made to the bill to the…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 323, by Rep. Starke (D), passed its first committee on February 13, 2019 by a vote of 11-2. The bill was not amended. The bill prohibits the shops or an employee of the shop to offer customers a rebate, gift, gift card, cash, coupon, or other thing of…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel After an hour and a half of discussion, debate, and testimony and after disposing of eight amendments, a vote on the Senate AOB bill, SB 122 was postponed. Had a vote been taken, the bill would have died on a 4-4 vote. Sen. Lee (R) was the swing…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 751, a stand-alone bad faith bill, was filed in the House on February 11, 2019. It applies to first party and third party claims and specifies a new legal process for bad faith claims, with a hearing by an administrative law judge. HB 751 makes all appeals of…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel Last week, HB 733 and SB 896 were filed to repeal PIP and replace it with 25/50/10 BI/PD. Neither bill requires Med Pay. There are two primary differences in the bills: the Senate bill repeals PIP on December 31, 2020 which is a year later than the House does…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel AOB was discussed in the House for the first time this year during this week’s House Civil Justice Subcommittee meeting. The meeting was intended to provide the Subcommittee with background information about water loss claims, AOB use, and litigation. No legislation was discussed. The Subcommittee ran out of time…