This year, New Jersey PIAPAC is watching the New Jersey state elections because all 120 of New Jersey’s state legislators are up for reelection in November. The deadline to register to vote is 21 days before the election, and you can check your registration status on...
What bills will be sent to Gov. Lamont this legislative session?
We are in the final stretch of the Connecticut General Assembly’s 2021 legislative session. The committees all have wrapped up their work, and the state House of Representatives and state Senate now are in the full swing of holding session days, during which each...
As New York loses population—whose seat could be on the chopping block?
Every 10 years, the United States conducts a census to count all persons in the country as set forth, however vaguely, in Article 1, Section 2 of the United States Constitution. The 2020 census count found that New York state lost over 20 million people in the...
PIANY meets with state legislators for a virtual Albany Lobby Day
PIANY leaders participated in Albany Lobby Day, which took place virtually last week and this week. PIANY President John Tomassi, CPCU; President-elect Tim Dean; Vice President David Sidle II, CIC, CPIA; Treasurer Gary Slavin, CLTC, CIC; Secretary Richard Andrews,...
PIANY-priority bill introduced in state Senate
Sen. James Sanders Jr., D-10, introduced S.6407 in the state Senate this week. The bill—one of PIANY’s 2021 legislative priorities—would require the superintendent of financial services to establish uniformity in the triggering and operation of windstorm deductibles....
‘Best-interest’ amendments declared unconstitutional—What comes next?
The Appellate Division Third Judicial Department of the New York Supreme Court ruled last week that amendments to Regulation 187—which created a suitability and best-interest standard for the sale of life insurance—were unconstitutionally vague. This is a...
PIANY-priority auto photo-inspection bill reported out of insurance committee
PIANY-priority bill, A.6877, was reported out of the state Assembly Insurance Committee today. If it is signed into law, the bill—sponsored by Assemblyman Kenneth Zebrowski, D-96—would allow carriers to waive the photo inspection of private-passenger automobiles...
The cannabis Carnac
Picture this: Mysterious music plays. A curtain pulls back. A shadowy man wearing a cloak emerges on stage. In his hand, he holds a hermetically sealed envelope. He states to the audience that he is a famous mystic, and he will psychically divine the answer to the...
PIANY Regional Advisory Councils Spring into Advocacy
Members of the he PIANY Regional Advisory Councils are meeting with their state Assembly members and senators as part of the Regional Advisory Councils’ Spring Into Advocacy event, May 18-28, 2021. State legislators from each region are invited to virtual meetings...
Auto policy limits, rebate and residency bills advance in N.H. Legislature
The deadline for the New Hampshire Legislature to act on bills introduced this session was April 9, 2021—and some of the bills were left behind in limbo. This means they can be amended onto another bill later this year, or they can be re-introduced in the 2022...