Legislation targets auto insurance and ride share services in Florida

Marc
auto insurance car

New legislation will place auto insurance requirements on ride share companies New legislation in Florida could affect the way ride-share companies receive auto insurance. Companies like Uber and Lyft, which providing transportation services with the aid of mobile apps, have been at the heart of debate concerning issues in the auto insurance sector. These companies typically meet the minimum requirements but are not technically required to do so because of the way they operate. The new legislation would codify existing standards, ensuring that companies like Uber and Lyft are required…

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Nevada residents are slow to embrace state’s health insurance exchange

S.Vagus
Nevada health Insurance

HHS data shows that enrollment in insurance exchange is sluggish this year Those living in Nevada have been slow to sign up for coverage through the state’s health insurance exchange. A new report from the Department of Health and Human Services has found that relatively few people have purchased coverage through the state’s exchange, called Nevada Health Link. Enrollment numbers were quite low during the first month of the open enrollment period, which began on November 1. Overall, enrollment throughout the country has been sluggish. Approximately 23,000 consumers have enrolled…

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Ridesharing insurance back in Ontario, Canada’s spotlight

Julie Campbell
auto insurance ridesharing

Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Tim Hudak has called for a focus on coverage for services like Uber. Tim Hudak, the MPP from Niagara West-Glanbrook, has now called on Charles Sousa, the Ontario Finance Minister, in the hopes of driving efforts forward to create a ridesharing insurance situation that will be “affordable” and “comprehensive” within the Canadian province. At the moment, services such as Uber, have been causing considerable coverage struggles in Ontario. In this effort Hudak has created a private member’s bill called the Opportunity in Sharing Economy Act.…

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Worldwide property and casualty insurance market to break $895 billion in 2018

H. Cutner
Property and Casualty Insurance

Finnacord has now released the results of a research study looking into the future of the commercial P&C market. According to the outcomes of a research study conducted by the Finaccord financial research firm, by the close of the year 2018, the global commercial property and casualty insurance market will break the $895 billion mark in gross written premiums. It also pointed out that commercial liability coverage premiums would see the fastest growth rate. By the end of 2014, the worldwide commercial non-life premiums for property and casualty insurance were…

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Data shows 87,000 people enroll for health insurance coverage in Virginia

Logan B.
health insurance exchange

Consumers in Virginia are finding coverage through the state’s insurance exchange Information from the federal government shows that approximately 87,000 consumers living in Virginia have found health insurance coverage through the state’s exchange marketplace. The open enrollment period for the exchange began on November 1 of this year and will run through January 31, 2016. Once the enrollment period began, many consumers flocked to the exchange either to find new policies or acquire coverage for the first time. Many more were automatically enrolled in the exchange for having purchased coverage…

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