Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Insurance Committee on March 6, 2012. The 2012 session has ended.
2012 Regular Session
House Bill 1042
Property insurance; revise unfair and deceptive acts and adopt efficient proximate cause doctrine.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 83-5-35, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT CERTAIN POLICIES CONTAINING CONCURRENT CAUSATION EXCLUSIONS ARE DEFINED AS UNFAIR METHODS OF COMPETITION AND UNFAIR AND DECEPTIVE ACTS OR PRACTICES IN THE BUSINESS OF INSURANCE; TO PROVIDE THAT, WHENEVER A LOSS UNDER A HOMEOWNERS OR COMMERCIAL PROPERTY INSURANCE POLICY IS CAUSED BY A COMBINATION OF A COVERED RISK AND AN EXCLUDED RISK, AN INSURER SHALL BE LIABLE IF THE COVERED RISK WAS THE EFFICIENT PROXIMATE CAUSE OF THE LOSS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
Its course
February 20 to March 6, 2012, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action2 actions on 2 days
In the House of RepresentativesFeb 20 to Mar 6 · stopped15 days
InsuranceFeb 20 to Mar 6 · stopped15 days
Text
Each version as the Legislature printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.