File Code: Insurance - Liability and Miscellaneous
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 264
- Sponsored By:
-
The President (Administration)
- Entitled:
-
Automobile Insurance Rate Reduction Act of 1996
Reducing automobile insurance rates by prohibiting the payment of
compensation for soliciting clients or soliciting law suits; requiring
the Insurance Administration to make specified notifications to
licensing boards; allowing the Insurance Commissioner to find certain
rates to be excessive; requiring insurers to take specified actions;
allowing waivers of certain coverages; limiting payment for soft
tissue injuries; specifying when and how collateral benefits may be
paid; limiting the rights of uninsured operators; etc.
Senate Action
- 1/22
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings & Finance
- Motion Rules Suspended (Sen. Trotter) Adopted (46-0)
- 2/6
- Hearing 3/6 at 1:00 p.m.
House Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- President of the Senate
- Administration
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ACCIDENTS
- ATTORNEYS -see also- LEGAL AID, STATE'S ATTORNEYS
- BALTIMORE CITY
- CIVIL ACTIONS -see also- SMALL CLAIMS
- COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
- DAMAGES
- FRAUD
- HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS
- HEALTH OCCUPATIONS
- HEALTH PLANNING AND COST REVIEW
- INSURANCE ADMINISTRATION
- INSURANCE-MOTOR VEHICLES -see also- MD. AUTO. INSURANCE FUND
- LICENSES - GENERAL
- MARYLAND AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE FUND
- NOTICES
- PRICES
- REPORTS -see also- RECORDS
- RULES AND REGULATIONS
- SOLICITATION
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Business Occupations and Professions
- (
10-605.1
)
- Health - General
- (
19-1501 ,
19-1502 ,
19-1509 ,
19-1602 ,
19-1605 ,
19-1606 ,
19-1607
)
- Health Occupations
- (
3-317 ,
8-320 ,
12-318 ,
13-320 ,
14-416 ,
15-316
)
- Article - 48A Insurance Code
- (
230A ,
233 ,
233AC ,
243L ,
244D ,
244H ,
244-I ,
374A ,
538 ,
539 ,
540 ,
541 ,
541A ,
542 ,
543 ,
544 ,
545
)
- Transportation
- (
17-107
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
None available