PIA National supports H.R. 4634, which passed the House Financial Services Committee today in a bipartisan vote of 57-0. The bill would extend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program (TRIP) for seven years with minimal changes to the program. TRIP expires at the end of next year on December 31, 2020. PIA National has been advocating …
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In the first entry in our new “Commissioner Spotlight” series, we are focusing on the head of the Maine Bureau of Insurance, Superintendent Eric Cioppa. Superintendent Cioppa began his career in insurance as a statistician for the Insurance Bureau before becoming Supervisor of Maine’s Workers’ Compensation Section. After that, he became Deputy Superintendent in 1998. …
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This week, PIA National submitted testimony for a joint hearing in the House Financial Services Committee subcommittees on Housing, Community Development and Insurance and National Security, International Development, and Monetary Policy on the reauthorization of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program (TRIP). This hearing on the reauthorization of TRIP follows one held in the Senate Banking, Housing …
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Earlier this year, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued a proposed rule as part of its consideration of potential revisions to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to update the exemption from minimum wage and overtime pay (of 1.5 times their regular pay rate) for “executive, administrative, professional, outside sales, and computer employees.” PIA National submitted comments in …
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