1.   Wilson signed a bill easing the earthquake coverage requirements.

2.   Among the key items to be decided are entry fees, minimum coverage requirements and a limit on how many firms are allowed to enter the market.

3.   Even so, big businesses and health insurers are largely opposed to enacting coverage requirements into law.

4.   Fourteen other states have varying kinds of infertility coverage requirements, including New Jersey and Connecticut, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

5.   Last fall, President Bill Clinton signed legislation sponsored by Domenici and Wellstone that set minimum mental-health coverage requirements for private health insurance plans.

6.   Some financial institutions have also begun softening their insurance coverage requirements.

7.   The Legislature passed and Gov. Wilson signed a bill easing the earthquake coverage requirements.

8.   The New York surcharges do not impose the kind of substantive coverage requirement binding plan administrators that was at issue in Metropolitan Life.

9.   They include the creation of a formal appeals process for insurer denials of coverage and new coverage requirements for emergency care.

10.   Yesterday, Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia said the Finance Committee proposal would allow child insurance money to go to the states with no minimum coverage requirements.