The House Judiciary Committee met briefly Tuesday for their last meeting before the end of the regular session, advancing two bills.
The committee advanced Senate Bill 613, which would require DNR include election of organ donation on hunting licenses. This bill amends and reenacts code relating to permitting individuals to make an anatomical gift on a hunting or fishing license. This also permits the Division of Natural Resources to provide donor registrant records collected to the donor registry.
The committee also advanced Senate Bill 340, which would repeal obsolete provisions of code relating to the West Virginia Physicians Mutual Insurance Company.
The Physician’s Mutual Insurance Company was created in 2001 to provide medical liability insurance to physicians in this state, at a time when many private carriers had either stopped writing this coverage in the state, or the premiums had increased to unaffordable amounts.
Initially state funded and formed, it was governed by the Board of Risk and Insurance (BRIM) which was tasked with implementing the initial formation and organization of the company.
The article initially specified that the company have a board of directors of certain members and provided for the transfer of policies previously initially written by BRIM to the company.
The article has been amended in the last several years and the PMIC has since been authorized to operate independently of BRIM, as a private mutual insurance company. Therefore, the article has no further purpose or function.
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