State legislation

61 records found

Legislative Scorecard:

8 bills enacted | 36 bills pending | 17 bills dead

California
Fraud assessment, A 2143, Bill status: Pending

• Extends the special assessment on auto insurers from 2010 to expire in 2018 to fund anti-fraud and theft programs.

Florida
Automobile insurance fraud, S 752, Bill status: Dead

• Sets mandatory minimum sentences for convictions of auto PIP fraud.

Florida
Agent fraud, S 2082, Bill status: Enacted

• Increases penalty to agents who are accused of twisting or churning policies/annuities of seniors.

Florida
Workers compensation, H 239, Bill status: Pending

• Requires the contract between employee leasing firm and client to specify which entity would provide workers comp coverage.

Florida
Agent fraud, H 1003, Bill status: Dead

• Increases penalty to agents who are accused of twisting or churning policies/annuities of seniors.

Hawaii
Workers compensation, H 305, Bill status: Dead

• Authorizes insurance commissioner to investigate complaints and prosecute cases of workers comp fraud provided complaint is against insurer.

Hawaii
Fraud bureau, H 1326, Bill status: Dead

• Expands the insurance fraud bureau to encompass all lines of insurance.

Hawaii
Fraud bureau, H 1327, Bill status: Dead

• Expands the fraud bureau to include workers compensation fraud.

Hawaii
Fraud bureau, S 1412, Bill status: Dead

• Expands the fraud bureau to encompass all lines of insurance.

Hawaii
Fraud bureau, S 1413, Bill status: Dead

• Expands the fraud bureau to include workers compensation fraud.

Hawaii
Fraud bureau, H 88, Bill status: Dead

• Expands the state’s fraud unit to all lines of business including workers comp fraud. Sunsets the larger unit in 2010.

Hawaii
Fraud bureau, S 165, Bill status: Dead

• Appropriates funds to be used to hire more staff for the insurance fraud bureau.

Hawaii
Fraud bureau, S 2313, Bill status: Dead

• Expands the state’s insurance fraud bureau to include all lines of insurance except for workers comp fraud.

Hawaii
Fraud bureau, H 2249, Bill status: Dead

• Expands the insurance fraud bureau to include all lines of insurance except for workers compensation.

Illinois
Public adjuster, H 5489, Bill status: Pending

• Sets strict license requirements to be a public insurance adjuster.

Iowa
Application fraud, HF 2555, Bill status: Enacted

• Insurance bill that expands fraud reporting to include application fraud.

Kansas
Prescription monitoring program, S 491, Bill status: Enacted

• Creates a statewide prescription monitoring program.

Kentucky
Event data recorder, S 34, Bill status: Dead

• Requires notification if an automobile has an event data recorder installed in the vehicle. Also requires court order for law enforcement to access the information.

Louisiana
insurance fraud, H 333, Bill status: Pending

• Adds the manufacturing and distributing of phony proof of insurance cards to the definition of insurance fraud.

Louisiana
Fraud bureau, H 1147, Bill status: Pending

• Extends the state police insurance fraud unit to 2012.

Louisiana
Automobile insurance fraud, H 413, Bill status: Pending

• Requires an affidavit for filing a report of a stolen vehicle.

Louisiana
Insurance fraud, H 241, Bill status: Pending

• Makes it a crime to forge insurance documents.

Maryland
Fraud warning, H 404, Bill status: Enacted

• Requires a fraud warning on claims and application forms.

Massachusetts
Fraud investigations, S 2120, Bill status: Pending

• Allows fraud investigators access to motor vehicle photographs.

Michigan
Anti runner, S 355, Bill status: Pending

• Sets criminal penalties for acting as or hiring a runner to solicit patients to file fraudulent claims.

Minnesota
Automobile insurance fraud, SF 2765, Bill status: Enacted

• Restrictions providers from contacting victims of automobile accidents.

Minnesota
Automobile insurance fraud, HF 2721, Bill status: Dead

• Restrictions providers from contacting victims of automobile accidents.

Mississippi
Prompt payment, H 754, Bill status: Dead

• Requires insurers to pay claim within 90 days. Bill has no fraud exclusion.

Mississippi
Prompt pay, H 1025, Bill status: Dead

• Requires paying a claim within 60 days. Appears to have no exclusion for the investigation of possible fraud.

Mississippi
Prescription monitoring program, S 2713, Bill status: Enacted

• Requires the state board of pharmacy to implement a monitoring program for controlled substances.

New Hampshire
Mandatory reporting, H 1578, Bill status: Pending

• Adds a fine of up to $2500 for non-compliance with the mandatory reporting law.

New Hampshire
Fraud warning, S 500, Bill status: Pending

• Adds applications to include a fraud warning -- currently only claims forms are required to have a warning.

New Hampshire
Prescription monitoring program, H 630, Bill status: Pending

• Establishes a state-wide prescription monitoring program.

New Jersey
Immunity, S 248, Bill status: Pending

• Expands the state immunity law to include insurer-to-insurer elements.

New Mexico
Insurance fraud penalties, S 136, Bill status: Dead

• Allows for an aggregation of false insurance claims to determine penalty.

New York
Auto insurance fraud, A 1273, Bill status: Pending

• Requires that the insurance fraud report to the legislature include incidences of misrepresentation of the principal place vehicles are garaged.

New York
Event data recorder, S 1734, Bill status: Pending

• Requires all vehicles manufactured after 2007 to have event data recorders.

New York
Auto insurance fraud, A 3837, Bill status: Pending

• Reduces time to submit a claim for payment; increases the time for an insurer to pay a claim; requires a report on incidence of misrepresentation of the principal place vehicle garaged.

New York
Anti-runner legislation, A 58, Bill status: Pending

• Makes it a felony to act as or to hire a runner to solicit for fraudulent purposes.

New York
Anti-runner legislation, S 637, Bill status: Pending

• Makes it a felony to act as or to hire a runner to solicit for fraudulent purposes.

New York
Auto insurance fraud, S 644, Bill status: Pending

• Makes it a crime to produce fake insurance identification cards.

New York
Event data recorder, A 6428, Bill status: Pending

• Requires owner of vehicle to allow law enforcement access to information on data recorder.

New York
Auto insurance fraud, S 2634, Bill status: Pending

• Makes it a crime to stage an automobile accident.

New York
Auto insurance fraud, S 4040, Bill status: Pending

• Allows for a one-year suspension of a drivers license if a person is convicted of automobile insurance fraud.

New York
Auto insurance fraud, A 7293, Bill status: Pending

• Allows for a one-year suspension of drivers license if a person is convicted of automobile insurance fraud.

New York
Auto insurance fraud, S 188, Bill status: Pending

• Requires the report that is sent to the legislature to include incidences of misrepresentation of the principal place vehicles are garaged.

New York
Anti-runner legislation, A 488, Bill status: Pending

• Sets civil penalties to act as a runner to solicit patients or clients for fraudulent purposes.

New York
Event data recorder, A 498, Bill status: Pending

• Requires all vehicles manufactured after 2007 to have event data recorders.

New York
Auto insurance fraud, S 474, Bill status: Pending

• Requires that the insurance fraud report to the legislature include incidences of misrepresentation of the principal place vehicles are garaged.

New York
Anti-arson applications, S 7502, Bill status: Pending

• Repeals state law requiring anti-arson applications to be filled before issuing insurance.

Ohio
Life Insurance, H 404, Bill status: Pending

• Expands the definition of fraudulent viatical settlement act.

Oklahoma
Insurer fraud, S 2122, Bill status: Pending

• Establishes a state-version of the federal insurance fraud law banning convicted felons from the business of insurance.

Rhode Island
Automobile insurance , H 7994, Bill status: Pending

• Grants licensing board authority to deny or revoke a license of an auto body shop that gives a rebate for an insurer’s deductible.

Tennessee
Immunity, S 3178, Bill status: Pending

• Amends existing immunity language to grant greater protection for reporting health care fraud.

Tennessee
Immunity, H 3415, Bill status: Pending

• Amends existing immunity language to grant greater protection for reporting health care fraud.

Utah
Mandatory reporting, H 93, Bill status: Enacted

• Expands the state mandatory reporting law and immunity law.

Vermont
workers compensation, S 334, Bill status: Pending

• Workers comp bill that allows the department of labor to receive a copy of the workers comp insurer’s anti-fraud plan.

Vermont
Workers compensation, H 756, Bill status: Pending

• Raises the fine and jail term for frauds under $10,000. Also creates a fraud unit in the Labor department.

Vermont
Workers compensation, S 345, Bill status: Pending

• Workers comp bill that allows the department of labor to receive a copy of the workers comp insurer’s anti-fraud plan.

West Virginia
Event data recorder, S 75, Bill status: Dead

• Requires consent of automobile owner or court order to access information on an event data recorder.

West Virginia
Life settlements, S 704, Bill status: Enacted

• STOLI bill that requires a life policy to be held 5 years before it could be sold as a viatical or life settlement.

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