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Explains how the Maine and Massachusetts medical malpractice pre-trial screening panels operate.

Summarizes a Senate amendment (LCO 6151) to "An Act Concerning Viatical Settlements."

Discusses Substitute Senate Bill 919, An Act Concerning the Approval of Health Insurance Plans with Flexible Benefit Designs.

Discusses whether realtors are prohibited from using an interest-bearing escrow account in real estate transactions.

Discusses how many states have enacted medical savings account.

Compares Maine and Connecticut pre-trial medical malpractice screening panel provisions.

Explains how a Connecticut part-time motor vehicle operator might avoid violating the state's motor vehicle registration and insurance laws.

Provides information about New Zealand and Sweden's no-fault medical liability compensation systems.

Provides information on the Colorado Realtors Association's use of escrow account interest to support low-to moderate income housing initiatives.

Discusses if any state has considered licensing entities engaged in the wholesale pharmaceutical business to ensure that as drugs are transported to market they are not subjected to conditions that render them ineffective.

Discusses the progress of legislation allowing small employers to join the state employee health insurance plan.

Compares Senate Bill 917 and House Bill 6455, which regulate managed care company (MCO) subcontractors (SC) (called preferred provider networks in SB 917 and utilization review companies in HB 6455).

Compares the average medical malpractice rates between Connecticut obstetricians/gynecologists (OB/GNYs) and other specialties with those in states that have excess liability pools or patient compensation funds.

Discusses the effect a nationwide cap on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases would have on medical malpractice insurance premiums in Connecticut.

Summarizes the bills imposing monetary limits in medical malpractice cases, including their effective date and whether they have retroactive application. Explains how caps work, including whether they limit punitive and other damages, and indicates whether the cap imposed in California and other states lowered premiums.

Address the number of medical malpractice lawsuits and settlements have been filed or negotiated over the last 10 years in Connecticut; what particular medical specialties, if any, have been the defendants in a majority of medical malpractices cases; and how does this data compare with national trends.

Explains whether reasonably priced health insurance is available for an uninsured person with a chronic medical condition.

Addresses questions about the Connecticut Medical Insurance Company.

Describes what kind of coverage is provided by an identity theft policy and whether Connecticut or any other states allow insurers to offer it.

Questions and answers on the roles and responsibilities of the Dept. of Insurance.

Explains how a medical malpractice judgment of $1 million each in economic and noneconomic damages would be handled in Nebraska and New Mexico.

Discusses the status of physician profiles that require disclosure of medical malpractice information.

Explains whether the order and notice directing the sale of an alleged abandoned mobile home conflicts with the real estate tax lien law.

Discusses states which allow people eligible for Medicare because of disability, to purchase any one of the 10 federally mandated Medicare supplement policies.

Explains how professional liability funds (also referred to as excess liability or patient compensation funds) operate to pay medical malpractice claims against health care providers.

Discusses whether a property insurance policy must pay the prevailing or regular wage when it covers municipal property that has been damaged and must be rebuilt.

Identifies a chronology of Insurance and Real Estate Committee public acts since 1992 and a comparison of state and private health care insurance initiatives.

Explains what happened to Med Span, a Connecticut HMO, whether there is anything available to supplement Medicare coverage, and how does the Medicaid spend-down requirement work.

Discusses recent large increases in health insurance premiums for small and medium size groups and the change in the way health insurers compute premiums.

Discusses what the territorial configuration would be when the automobile insurance rates in urban territories are cut and rates in suburban and rural territories increased an average of $25, $20, and $15 per car respectively.

Discusses why the state's viatical settlement law did not require viatical settlement firms to pay specified minimum amounts to viators when they purchase or otherwise acquire an interest in their cash value life insurance policies.

Discusses health insurance benefit mandates that apply to small employer group plans and individuals, including those who are self-employed.

Discusses whether, under statute or case law, a commercial liability insurer must pay for the cleanup of an oil spill that occurred in a home in the final stage of construction.

Discusses whether California, Connecticut and Texas allow owners of private passenger motor vehicles to self-insure, by posting a bond, against their potential liability for personal injury or death.

Discusses the rationale behind insurers imposing a surcharge on sports utility vehicle insurance rates and whether all insurers doing business in the state do this.

Discusses New York's captive insurance company legislation.

Analyzes C.G.S. sec. 47-33a, Action on Agreement to Sell Real Estate, under the following scenarios: (1) as written, (2) with the clause "time is of the essence," and (3) with and without a date to determine when the agreement first becomes invalid

Interprets the law that governs the portability of employer-sponsored 401(k) plans when the employer is sold and explains the type of notice the employer must give employees when plan eligibility and other terms and conditions of the plan are changed.

Discusses whether any state owns or sponsors a nonprofit insurance company to offer its residents health insurance.

Summarizes Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) as it applies to a dental office.

Details whether a workers' compensation insurer could renew a policy for a 30- or 60-day period, after he failed to give the insured the required 60-day advance notice of non-renewal.

Discusses whether an insurer of a homeowners' policy with a replacement cost endorsement can pay the actual cash value of items lost and withhold the difference between replacement cost and actual cash value until the items are replaced.

Identifies which of the laws passed in California, Colorado, Nevada, Pennsylvania and West Virginia to reduce medical malpractice claims would be permissible under Connecticut's constitution, and if a constitutional amendment were necessary for passage, what would be required. Also describes how medical malpractice premiums compare in Connecticut with states that have adopted laws to reduce medical malpractice claims.

Discusses whether automobile leasing companies are subject to vicarious liability and must they carry insurance.

Discusses whether a disability insurer must give an insured prior written notice of benefit termination.

Discusses what factors are responsible for the dramatic increase in general liability insurance premiums.

Discusses rate of private passenger automobile insurance premium increases.

Discusses medical malpractice tort reform legislation enacted in several states, including California and Colorado.

Discusses whether there has been any legislation that addresses the escalating cost of health insurance in Connecticut.

Compares Connecticut automobile insurance rates for 22 year old male and female operators.