PIANY leaders met with their congressional representatives and staffers from the offices of 10 New York representatives from May 11-13. These meetings were part of PIA National’s PIA Advocacy Day. Discussions focused mainly around four key issues: flood insurance,...
PIANH President Lyle W. Fulkerson, Esq., and PIANH President-elect, Keith T. Maglia, met with representatives from each of New Hampshire’s congressional offices—including a thorough discussion with Democrat Rep. Chris Pappas—last Wednesday to discuss PIA’s federal...
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...
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced last week that he signed the New York Health and Essential Rights Act—also known as the NY HERO Act. The new law directs the New York State Department of Labor and the New York State Department of Health to create an enforceable health...
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...
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 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,...
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....
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 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...