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Civil Justice panel advances bill to raise minimum liability insurance for local governments
Summary
The Civil Justice Subcommittee voted to send House Bill 4 to full Judiciary with amendments to raise minimum liability-insurance limits for local governments, citing inflation and recent catastrophic claims as justification. The vote passed 5–2 with one present-not-voting.
The Civil Justice Subcommittee voted to send House Bill 4, as amended, to the full Judiciary Committee, approving increases to the minimum liability-insurance limits that local governmental entities must carry.
Proponents said the change updates long-standing statutory caps tied to the Governmental Tort Liability Act (GTLA) to reflect inflation and rising costs for catastrophic claims. Representative Bozzo, sponsor of the bill, said the $300,000 per-person and $700,000 per-incident limits set in February 2007 are no longer adequate and proposed stepping the per-person limit to $400,000 this…
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