INSURANCE - GENERAL

Missouri House of Representatives
93rd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session (2006)
Bills Indexed by Subject
INSURANCE - GENERAL

: Requires insurers providing medical malpractice insurance to health care providers to establish premiums based on the average judgment in medical malpractice cases by county

: Changes the laws regarding health care liens

: Creates notice and reporting requirements, public market rates, and presumptions for the Department of Insurance and entities providing medical malpractice and professional negligence insurance

: Prohibits insurers from using credit information when underwriting insurance contracts

: Requires fiduciaries of insurers who use credit scoring in underwriting to annually submit their personal credit score to the Department of Insurance

: Requires licensed long-term care facilities to maintain at least $500,000 in medical malpractice insurance as a condition of licensure

: Limits the liability of the state regarding tort claims involving motor vehicles and dangerous conditions

: Allows insurers to intervene in any civil case where they may be obligated to provide a defense or indemnity for any judgment rendered in the action

: Changes the laws regarding consumer protection and preventing fraud in the business of insurance and the regulation of title insurance and establishes the Missouri Title Insurance Act

: Modifies the membership requirements of various insurance boards and committees

: Establishes the Health Care Rights of Conscience Act which allows a health care professional to not participate in a health care service that violates his or her conscience

: Changes the laws regarding health insurance coverage for formulas and products used in the treatment of inherited metabolic diseases

: Synchronizes the penalties, administrative orders, civil actions, and other remedies available to the Director of the Department of Insurance in enforcing violations of the state insurance code

: Requires group health insurance policies which cover dependents to continue coverage for a dependent child with a chronic illness or condition until the child attains the age of 25 or marries

: Requires all insurance premium rate changes in excess of 15% or more to be approved by the Department of Insurance after a public hearing

: Synchronizes the penalties, administrative orders, civil actions, and other remedies available to the Director of the Department of Insurance in enforcing violations of the state insurance code

: Changes the laws regarding insurance pooling by political subdivisions

: Establishes the Missouri Uniform Residential Mortgage Satisfaction Act

: Allows for the registration of environmental professionals with the Department of Natural Resources

: Requires the Director of the Department of Insurance to establish by rule uniform insurance application forms

: Changes the laws regarding medical malpractice insurance and the enforcement powers of the Department of Insurance and creates the Health Care Stabilization Fund Feasibility Board

: Establishes the Uniform Debt-Management Services Act to regulate debt-management services

: Changes the laws regarding insurance company investments

: Creates the Missouri Health Care Stabilization Fund to provide excess medical malpractice coverage to participating health care providers

: Changes the laws regarding medical malpractice insurance

: Makes title insurers liable for defalcation, conversion, and misappropriation of funds held in trust

: Requires title insurers to conduct annual onsite reivews of any title insurance agency or agent with whom they have a contract and makes insurers liable for the misappropriation of funds held in trust

: Establishes various data collection requirements regarding medical malpractice insurance coverage

: Establishes regulations for captive insurance companies

: Limits the liability of volunteer medical professionals to actual damages and provides additional insurance coverage for legal expenses and actual damages not covered under the Legal Expense Fund

: Modifies law regarding the use of credit information by insurance companies

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: Enacts various changes with respect to the issue of medical malpractice insurance

: Makes information collected in the course of an insurance compliance audit privileged information

: Establishes procedure for insurers intervening in civil actions to determine coverage issues

: Modifies the membership of the board of directors that governs the Missouri Malpractice Joint Underwriting Association

: Modifies provisions in various health care and social services programs

: Revises the filing fees paid by certain insurance organizations for filing documents with the Department of Insurance

: Synchronizes the penalties, administrative orders, civil actions and other remedies available to the director of the Department of Insurance throughout the insurance code; modifies law with respect to

: Requires medical malpractice insurers to file information with the Department of Insurance, and give notice prior to refusing to renew a policy of medical malpractice insurance

: Allows the Medical Malpractice Joint Underwriting Association to provide various types of coverages and refund policyholder surcharges

: Modifies laws relating to medical malpractice insurance and establishes the "Health Care Stabilization Fund Feasibility Board"

: Changes and extends the current law pertaining to service contracts

: Creates the "Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact"

: Repeals tax deduction for registration and examination fees paid by insurance companies

: Modifies various provisions of law relating to investments by insurance companies

: Eliminates the premium tax deduction for examination fees paid by insurance companies

Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated November 29, 2006 at 9:52 am