State legislation

94 records found

Legislative Scorecard:

25 bills enacted | 37 bills pending | 30 bills dead

Alabama
Insurance fraud, S 3, Bill status: Dead

• Defines the crime of insurance fraud and creates a fraud unit in the insurance department.

Alaska
Workers compensation, H 314, Bill status: Dead

• Makes it a crime to falsify a medical treatment in a workers comp claim

Arizona
Automobile insurance, H 2463, Bill status: Enacted

• Makes it a crime for an auto glass repair shop to bill an insurer for misrepresentations on a repair of an automobile.

California
Workers compensation fraud, A 801, Bill status: Pending

• Allows the insurance department to use identifiable information in the investigation and prosecution of workers comp fraud.

California
Rescission, A 2470, Bill status: Pending

• Restricts health insurers from rescinding a policy after the policy is in force.

California
Workers compensation, A 2779, Bill status: Pending

• States that compound medications can be used only with pre-authorization that they are medically necessary for treatment.

Colorado
Video surveillance, H 1012, Bill status: Dead

• Restricts workers comp insurers from utilizing video surveillance for fraud detection.

Colorado
Fraud bureau funding, H 1385, Bill status: Enacted

• Raises the assessment to fund the attorney general’s fraud unit.

Colorado
Workers compensation, S 12, Bill status: Enacted

• Raises the penalty for committing workers comp fraud from $500 to $1000 per day. Also changes the standard from “willfully” to “knowingly.”

Florida
Insurance fraud, H 1447, Bill status: Dead

• Comprehensive fraud bill that includes defining clinic license fraud as insurance fraud and requires all passengers in crash to be listed on crash report.

Florida
Public adjuster, S 2044, Bill status: Dead

• Major property insurance reform bill that includes provisions that set stricter regulations on public adjusters.

Hawaii
Airbag fraud, S 2022, Bill status: Dead

• Makes stealing and using an airbag a crime. Tracks NCOIL model bill language.

Hawaii
Cooperation, H 2354, Bill status: Dead

• Requires insurers to cooperate with fraud unit investigators and restricts restitution only to insurers that cooperate.

Hawaii
Cooperation, S 2364, Bill status: Dead

• Requires insurers to cooperate with fraud unit investigators and restricts restitution only to insurers that cooperate.

Iowa
False claims act, SF 2088, Bill status: Enacted

• Major government reorganization bill that includes a state-false claims act.

Kentucky
Accident/crash reports, H 306, Bill status: Dead

• Makes accident/crash reports covered under the state’s open records law keeping the information confidential only to victims, their representatives or media.

Kentucky
Accident/crash reports, S 183, Bill status: Dead

• Restrict access to accident or disaster reports for 30 days after the accident or disaster.

Louisiana
Fraud plan, H 239, Bill status: Enacted

• Requires insurers to draft and submit fraud plans to insurance department.

Louisiana
Fraud bureau, S 136, Bill status: Dead

• Extends the state police insurance fraud unit for six years until 2016.

Louisiana
Workers compensation fraud, H 1045, Bill status: Enacted

• Allows for the discretion of giving tax information to the Louisiana Workforce Commission to investigate workers comp fraud.

Louisiana
Fraud bureau , S 792, Bill status: Enacted

• Extends the sunset date of the fraud program to 2012. Takes funds to be used for public awareness program and returns excess to insurers.

Louisiana
Insurance fraud funding, H 787, Bill status: Enacted

• Government bill that includes a sweep of approximately $90,000 of fraud funds for other purposes.

Louisiana
health insurance fraud, H 1483, Bill status: Enacted

• Makes health care insurance fraud a specific crime.

Maine
Workers compensation, HP 1102, Bill status: Enacted

• Gives the workers comp board the authority to issue stop work orders against construction firms that misclassify workers.

Maine
Workers compensation, SP 586, Bill status: Enacted

• Gives the comp board’s investigative unit the ability to share information with other state agencies.

Maryland
Airbag fraud, S 209, Bill status: Dead

• Makes it a crime to use a stolen airbag and requires record-keeping by body shops on where they acquire replacement bags.

Maryland
False claims act, S 279, Bill status: Enacted

• Creates a state false claims act against state programs.

Massachusetts
Prescription monitoring program, H 3599, Bill status: Pending

• Creates a task force to review the state’s prescription monitoring program.

Massachusetts
Workers compensation, H 1866, Bill status: Pending

• Makes it a crime to display an invalid or false workers comp certificate

Michigan
Fraud authority, S 410, Bill status: Pending

• Creates an insurance fraud prevention authority.

Minnesota
Insurance deductible, SF 1886, Bill status: Enacted

• Forbids roofers from rebating an insurance deductible to claimant. Allows insurer to deny estimate.

Mississippi
Immunity, H 359, Bill status: Dead

• Extends immunity for the reporting of insurance fraud.

Missouri
False claims act, S 639, Bill status: Dead

• Creates a state false claims act targeting frauds against state health programs.

Nebraska
Automobile insurance fraud, LR 483, Bill status: Enacted

• Calls for interim study on automobile insurance fraud especially the use of chiros soliciting patients for fraudulent claims.

New Hampshire
Fraud warning, H 1244, Bill status: Dead

• Repeals the fraud warning provisions and replaces with statement that insured to contact department if mistreated by insurer.

New Hampshire
Prescription monitoring program, H 1636, Bill status: Dead

• Creates a real-time prescription monitoring program.

New Jersey
Whistleblower protection, A 1972, Bill status: Pending

• Gives whistleblower protection to workers who divulge fraudulent activity of employers.

New Jersey
Automobile insurance fraud, A 2052, Bill status: Pending

• Makes it a crime to lie about where an automobile is garaged to avoid paying proper auto insurance.

New Jersey
Immunity, A 2054, Bill status: Pending

• Expands the immunity to allow greater exchange of information in fraud investigations.

New Jersey
Automobile insurance, A 622, Bill status: Pending

• Adds showing a prosecutor a false motor vehicle insurance identification card to the law making false cards a crime.

New Jersey
Health care fraud, A 2511, Bill status: Pending

• Makes it a crime of insurance fraud for a health care provider to offer a rebate to cover an insureds deductible.

New Jersey
Fraud bureau, A 2987, Bill status: Pending

• Changes the structure of the office of insurance fraud prosecutor and renames the division of insurance fraud prevention as the bureau of fraud deterrence.

New Jersey
Fraud bureau, S 2098, Bill status: Enacted

• Changes the structure of the office of insurance fraud prosecutor and renames the division of insurance fraud prevention as the bureau of fraud deterrence.

New York
Insurance fraud, A 534, Bill status: Pending

• Restricts insurers from demanding intrusive personal from insureds as a standard practice in processing ordinary theft claims.

New York
Automobile insurance , A 1003, Bill status: Enacted

• Requires as part of the annual report filed with legislature to include incidences of misrepresentation of where vehicle is garaged.

New York
Automobile insurance, A 1172, Bill status: Pending

• Provides that policies in effect cannot be cancelled for ten years unless the insured has not paid premiums, had license suspended or revoked or has committed fraud in obtaining coverage.

New York
Health insurance, S 122, Bill status: Pending

• Add health insurance information to the definition of identity theft.

New York
Automobile insurance fraud, S 683, Bill status: Pending

• Requires the suspension of a drivers license for the conviction of automobile insurance fraud.

New York
Anti runner law, S 1335, Bill status: Pending

• Makes it a crime to hire a runner to solicit clients for fraudulent purposes.

New York
Automobile insurance fraud, A 2964, Bill status: Pending

• Sets certification for managed care facilities to treat auto insurance accident victims.

New York
Insurance fraud reward, A 2753, Bill status: Pending

• Sets a reward of up to 40% for reporting suspected insurance fraud.

New York
Event data recorder, A 3059, Bill status: Pending

• Allows law enforcement access to data recorder access for accident and crime investigations. Also allows for owner to seek suppression of the info.

New York
Event data recorder, A 690, Bill status: Pending

• Requires all vehicles registered in state manufactured after Dec. 31, 2009 must have an event data recorder.

New York
Staged automobile accidents, S 6450, Bill status: Pending

• Criminalizes the staging of automobile accidents.

New York
Workers compensation, S 5847, Bill status: Enacted

• Targets the misclassification of workers in the construction trades industry.

New York
Automobile insurance fraud, S 3552, Bill status: Pending

• Amends decertification law by giving the insurance department the authority to decertify a provider from the no fault system.

New York
Pre-insurance inspection, S 1039, Bill status: Pending

• Allows for insurers to receive a waiver from the insurance department not to have the required pre-insurance inspection prior to writing an automobile policy.

New York
Pre-insurance inspection, A 10171, Bill status: Pending

• Allows for insurers to receive a waiver from the insurance department not to have the required pre-insurance inspection prior to writing an automobile policy.

New York
Automobile insurance fraud, S 7091, Bill status: Pending

• Gives the insurance department authority to investigate incidents of rate evasion by those seeking to lower auto rates by lying where auto is garaged.

New York
Automobile insurance fraud, A 10877, Bill status: Pending

• Gives the insurance department authority to investigate incidents of rate evasion by those seeking to lower auto rates by lying where auto is garaged.

New York
Automobile insurance fraud, S 8414, Bill status:

• Major automobile insurance fraud law that targets the ability of insurers to investigate suspected frauds. Includes tighter decertification of providers convicted of fraud.

New York
Automobile insurance fraud, A 11596, Bill status:

• Major automobile insurance fraud law that targets the ability of insurers to investigate suspected frauds. Includes tighter decertification of providers convicted of fraud.

Ohio
Home insurance, H 557, Bill status: Pending

• Targets the “storm chaser” home repairs tracking storm damaged homes. Gives homeowners civil remedies against fraudulent repair services.

Oklahoma
Rescission, S 1297, Bill status: Dead

• Makes it an unfair deceptive practice for a health insurer to give bonuses to employees for cancellation of policies.

Oklahoma
Workers compensation, H 2894, Bill status: Dead

• Requires an employee guilty of workers comp fraud to pay for any additional premium charged to employer.

Oklahoma
Health insurance, S 1721, Bill status: Dead

• Adds willfull to the definition of the fraudulent statements in an application that would allow for rescission of the policy.

Oklahoma
Workers compensation, H 2911, Bill status: Enacted

• Prohibition on employers from creating anew business to evade workers compensation costs.

Pennsylvania
Event data recorder, H 1112, Bill status: Pending

• Requires the owner of a vehicle to be notified if the vehicle has an event data recorder. Requires the owner’s permission or subpoena to obtain the information on the recorder.

Pennsylvania
Insurance fraud, H 1750, Bill status: Pending

• Comprehensive insurance fraud bill includes expanding definition of insurance fraud, fraud plans and fraud warnings.

Pennsylvania
Automobile insurance fraud, H 1734, Bill status: Pending

• Adds staging an automobile accident to definition of insurance fraud.

Pennsylvania
Insurance fraud, H 1737, Bill status: Pending

• Requires health facilities to have poster offering reward for reporting fraud and has fraud authority gaining funds through asset forfeiture.

Pennsylvania
Fraud plans, H 1739, Bill status: Pending

• Requires insurers to have anti-fraud plans.

Pennsylvania
Asset forfeiture, H 1740, Bill status: Pending

• Allows for asset forfeiture from those convicted of insurance fraud.

Pennsylvania
Immunity, H 2154, Bill status: Pending

• Expands the state immunity law allowing for greater exchange of information including with NICB.

Pennsylvania
Immunity, S 1181, Bill status: Pending

• Expands the immunity for greater exchange of information about an insurance fraud.

Pennsylvania
False claims act, H 1679, Bill status: Pending

• Creates a state false claims act targeting state programs.

Rhode Island
Airbag fraud, H 7301, Bill status: Enacted

• Makes it a crime to use a stolen airbag and requires record-keeping by body shops on where they acquire replacement bags.

Rhode Island
Innocent spouse, H 7166, Bill status: Dead

• Coverage may not be denied to an innocent spouse under a casualty policy.

Rhode Island
Innocent spouse, S 2059, Bill status: Dead

• Coverage may not be denied to an innocent spouse under a casualty policy.

Rhode Island
Insurance fraud, S 2401, Bill status: Enacted

• Expands the state’s insurance fraud law.

Rhode Island
Insurance fraud, H 7605, Bill status: Enacted

• Expands the state’s insurance fraud law utilizing the NAIC model law.

Rhode Island
Discount medical cards, H 7606, Bill status: Enacted

• Sets strict licensing requirements for medical discount cards and penalties for violations.

Rhode Island
Airbag fraud, S 2514, Bill status: Enacted

• Makes it a crime to use a stolen airbag and requires record-keeping by body shops on where they acquire replacement bags.

South Dakota
Life insurance, H 1206, Bill status: Enacted

• The group life incontestibility period would not apply if fraud is involved in the application.

South Dakota
Prescription monitoring program, H 1231, Bill status: Enacted

• Creates a drug registry for prescription monitoring.

Tennessee
Workers compensation, S 3468, Bill status: Dead

• Increases from "$100-$1,000" to "$200-$2,000" the range of the civil penalty for a health care provider that renders excessive or inappropriate services.

Tennessee
Workers compensation, H 3127, Bill status: Dead

• Increases from "$100-$1,000" to "$200-$2,000" the range of the civil penalty for a health care provider that renders excessive or inappropriate services.

Vermont
Airbag fraud, H 587, Bill status: Dead

• Makes it a crime to use a stolen airbag and requires body shops to have recordkeeping on where they purchase replacement bags.

Vermont
False claims act, S 185, Bill status: Dead

• Creates a false claims act against state programs.

Virginia
Workers compensation, S 377, Bill status: Dead

• Targets the misclassification of construction trade workers.

Washington
Civil penalty, H 1707, Bill status: Dead

• Re-introduced 2009 bill allowing insurer to bring civil action to recover investigative costs from person committing insurance fraud.

Washington
False claims act, S 5144, Bill status: Dead

• Creates a state-false claims act to be used against those that commit fraud against a government program.

West Virginia
False claims act, H 4015, Bill status: Dead

• Creates a state false claims act.

West Virginia
Fraud bureau, H 3040, Bill status: Dead

• Expands the size of the state’s insurance fraud bureau.