All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 3 2025 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt announced state efforts have prevented over $4.97 million from going to bad actors through the Protect Vulnerable Adults from Financial Exploitation Act.“Identification and...
Dec 3 2025 // Three weeks after flash floods in Texas’ Hill Country killed more than 100 people, state lawmakers chastised Kerr County leaders for rejecting money a year earlier to create a warning system that could have alerted...
Dec 3 2025 // A working group on wildfires in Washington wants the state Legislature to consider requiring insurers to internally track instances in which wildfire risk materially contributes to a policy nonrenewal, cancellation or...
Dec 1 2025 // A federal judge dealt a setback to customers suing Burger King over advertising for its Whopper sandwiches, saying their claims were too disparate to justify certifying a nationwide class action.The lawsuit by 19 customers...
Dec 1 2025 // A new survey reveals consumer frustration with auto insurance pricing models and growing support for more transparency in how policies are priced and for telematics.The new research from mobility data and analytics company...
Dec 1 2025 // GEICO insurance companies can’t dismiss a South Carolina lawsuit that demands they pay almost $70 million in back taxes and penalties, a federal judge ruled in a case that could ultimately affect how insurance taxes...
Nov 24 2025 // Sen. John Kennedy has introduced a new bill aimed at reforming the courtroom practice of third-party litigation funding.Kennedy, R-La., introduced the Protecting Our Courts from Foreign Manipulation Act last week, and it...
Nov 21 2025 // A federal judge has denied a temporary restraining order against seven former employees of Marsh sued in one of several lawsuits against defectors to join Howden US.Marsh USA early this month filed a lawsuit against the...
Nov 20 2025 // The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission moved forward on Tuesday with its efforts to regulate the sale of consumable hemp products as questions swirled around the future of the industry due to federal restrictions on the...
Nov 20 2025 // President Donald Trump called on Congress to pass a federal standard governing oversight of artificial intelligence and warned that varied regulation at the state level risked slowing the development of an emerging...
Nov 20 2025 // The legal battle over Florida’s property insurer of last resort’s use of a state agency to hear claims disputes in arbitration took new turns this week, prompting one policyholder attorney to note that a move...
Nov 14 2025 // BHP is liable for the 2015 collapse of a dam in southeastern Brazil, London’s High Court ruled on Friday, in a lawsuit the claimants’ lawyers previously valued at up to 36 billion pounds ($48 billion).Hundreds...
Nov 12 2025 // A new survey reveals consumer frustration with auto insurance pricing models and growing support for more transparency in how policies are priced and for telematics.The new research from mobility data and analytics company...
Nov 12 2025 // Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and Deputy Solicitor General Eric Restuccia testified before the Senate Civil Rights, Judiciary, and Public Safety Committee last week in support of a bill that would strengthen the...
Nov 10 2025 // Two U.S. Congressmen, one a Democrat from Louisiana and the other a Republican from Mississippi, have introduced legislation to retroactively restore the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).Congressmen Troy A. Carter,...
Nov 5 2025 // A Colorado judge rejected the plea agreement of a funeral home owner accused of stashing nearly 190 decaying bodies in a bug-infested building after family members of the deceased argued that the agreement’s 15- to...
Nov 4 2025 // UBS Group AG’s chairman warned against looming risks in the US insurance industry, citing weak and complex regulations amid an unprecedented boom in private financing.“We’re beginning to see huge rating...
Nov 3 2025 // A New York judge dismissed a legal challenge Friday from Texas seeking to enforce a more than $100,000 civil judgment against a doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to a Dallas-area woman in an early test of the...
Oct 31 2025 // A North Dakota judge has ordered Greenpeace to pay damages of $345 million, reducing an earlier jury award after it found the environmental group and related entities liable for defamation and other claims in connection...
Oct 30 2025 // A federal judge in Mississippi has admitted that his staff used artificial intelligence to draft a flawed court order, after months of speculation and an inquiry from a U.S. senator.U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate...