Federal Regulation
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States resist federal insurance regulation
By Jack MarrionIt all goes back to a Supreme Court ruling (Paul v. Virginia) just after the Civil War that said insurance was not interstate commerce. The ruling said that because the Constitution only provided for federal regulation of interstate commerce,
October 29, 2006
ACLI: OFC Effort Is Making Progress, But Work RemainsThe insurance industry has made significant progress towards the enactment of optional federal charter legislation in 2006, but there is still a long way to ...
October 23, 2006
Government Spending RevealedOn October 10, OMB Watch and The Center for Responsive Politics launched databases that provide the public with detailed information on federal spending. The three new tools were made possible by grants from the Sunlight Foundation, which supports using "new information technologies to ensure greater transparency and accountability by the...
October 23, 2006
Lobbyist: Passing OFC Could Take 5 YearsBills that would establish an optional federal charter for insurers have strong bipartisan support in the Senate.Kim Dorgan, executive vice president of federal relations at ...
October 23, 2006
Lobbyist: Passing OFC Could Take 5 YearsBills that would establish an optional federal charter for insurers have strong bipartisan support in the Senate.Kim Dorgan, executive vice president of federal relations at ...
October 22, 2006
IRS Proposes Annuity Exchange RegsThe Internal Revenue Service has proposed regulations that would apply the same rules to taxpayers who trade either ordinary commercial annuities or "private" annuities for ...
October 22, 2006
IRS Proposes Annuity Exchange RegsThe Internal Revenue Service has proposed regulations that would apply the same rules to taxpayers who trade either ordinary commercial annuities or "private" annuities for ...
October 21, 2006
Personnel Changes: Health Net, IRS, OthersAnthony Piszel is leaving his post as chief financial officer of Health Net Inc. to become CFO of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.Freddie Mac, ...