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MT HB727

Bill

Status

Failed

5/20/2025

Primary Sponsor

Nelly Nicol

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Requires the Insurance Commissioner to include Plan No. 3 (the State Fund) alongside Plan No. 2 private insurers when measuring workers' compensation market concentration using the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index

  • Establishes that a Herfindahl-Hirschman Index over 1,800 creates a presumption that reasonable competition does not exist, triggering a mandatory public hearing

  • Mandates corrective measures when a noncompetitive market is confirmed, including promoting new insurers, limiting large mergers, consumer education, and prohibiting or limiting by at least 50% premiums written by producer agencies to monopoly carriers

  • Defines "actively engaged" insurers as those with a positive measurable effect on the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index based on NAIC annual market share reports for direct premiums earned

  • Requires the Commissioner to notify all customers, insurers, and producers participating in workers' compensation when corrective measures are implemented

Legislative Description

Revise workers' compensation laws relating to competitive markets

Labor and Employment

Last Action

(H) Died in Process

5/20/2025

Committee Referrals

Business & Labor2/25/2025

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