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Texas Windstorm Insurer: New Laws Bring Organizational Changes

Sep 25 2019 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) reports that working to implement new laws that change how TWIA does business and serves policyholders.The association recently issued the following update on a few...

U.K. PM Johnson Vows to Exit EU (With or Without a Deal) After Historic Court Defeat

Sep 24 2019 // A defiant Boris Johnson hit back at the U.K.’s top judges and vowed to take the country out of the European Union next month, despite suffering an unprecedented legal defeat over his Brexit strategy in the highest...

Dive Boat, Ghost Ship Fires in California a Lesson in Proving Negligence

Sep 23 2019 // One was a ship in name only, an artist commune set up in an Oakland warehouse. The other was a bona fide boat afloat on the ocean off Santa Barbara.Both became fiery death traps for a combined 70 souls, two of the worst...

Judge Allows Tesla Investor’s Claim Over Musk’s ‘Extraordinary’ $56B Performance Pact

Sep 23 2019 // A Delaware state judge has rejected a request by the board of Tesla Inc. to dismiss a stockholder complaint over an “excessive” 2018 performance award to CEO Elon Musk.In the spring of 2018, shareholders of the...

Imelda Brings Flooding, Disaster Declaration to Southeast Texas

Sep 19 2019 // Flooding from Tropical Storm Imelda on Thursday left hundreds of people trapped in their homes and cars; led to water rescues, a hospital evacuation and power outages; and closed entire school districts, according to...

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy Signs Executive Order on Gun Safety

Sep 19 2019 // New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed Executive Order No. 83, directing the New Jersey Department of Treasury, the Division of Purchase and Property, and the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance to promote...

Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen Asks Judge to Dismiss Roy Moore Defamation Suit

Sep 19 2019 // Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen asked a federal judge to dismiss Roy Moore’s defamation lawsuit over a television segment that lampooned Moore in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations.Lawyers for Baron Cohen, Showtime...

Arkansas Senate Leader Proposes New Regulations, Tax on Vaping

Sep 18 2019 // Arkansas’ Senate president has proposed a new tax and regulations on vaping products, and said he hopes the governor will call lawmakers back to the Capitol to take up the issue.Republican Sen. Jim Hendren proposed...

California Spending $20M on Campaign to Warn Public of Vaping Dangers

Sep 18 2019 // California will spend $20 million on a public awareness campaign about the dangers of vaping nicotine and cannabis products and step up efforts to halt the sale of illicit products amid a rise in vaping-related...

Prime Minister Johnson’s Brexit Plan Goes to Court as Latest EU Talks End in Failure

Sep 17 2019 // Boris Johnson’s Brexit strategy has been on trial ever since he became prime minister eight weeks ago, and on Tuesday his lawyers will defend it in the U.K.’s highest court.Fresh from being lambasted by a...

California Governor Says He’ll Veto So-Called Trump Insurance Bill

Sep 16 2019 // California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to veto a bill approved by the Democrat-controlled legislature that sought to preserve federal environmental and worker safety standards in the face of any Trump administration...

Bill Would Allow Service Members to Sue Military for Medical Malpractice

Sep 16 2019 // U.S. Senators John Kennedy (R-La.) and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) have introduced legislation to allow active duty service members to sue the military for medical malpractice and negligence.A Supreme Court decision in 1950...

Pharmacies, Distributors Say Opioid Case Judge Biased, Seek Removal

Sep 16 2019 // AmerisourceBergen Corp., Cardinal Health Inc., CVS Health Corp. units and other prescription drug distributors and pharmacies moved to bounce Cleveland federal judge Dan Polster from the massive opioid liability case...

New Texas Workers’ Comp Laws Highlighted by Insurance Department

Sep 16 2019 // Texas insurance regulators issued a bulletin in late August highlighting and summarizing selected bills passed and signed into law this year that impact the business of workers’ compensation insurance in the...

Louisiana Commissioner Candidate, Temple, Says State Is in Insurance ‘Crisis’

Sep 16 2019 // When Louisiana voters go the polls this fall, in the race for insurance commissioner they’ll have a choice between Louisiana businessman and longtime insurance industry executive, Tim Temple, and current...

Conference: California Workers’ Comp Should Embrace Innovation

Sep 16 2019 // The workers’ compensation market apparently needs to do some catching up where it concerns technology.“Historically we’ve been really slow to adapt to technology and innovation,” said Shaun Jackson,...

Arch Nemesis of Uber over Driver Pay Sues Before New California Law Inked

Sep 13 2019 // It didn’t take long for attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan to deploy a new weapon in her six-year war with Uber Technologies Inc. over driver pay.Within hours of Uber thumbing its nose at a pending California labor law...

Louisiana Commissioner Candidate, Temple: State Is in Insurance ‘Crisis’

Sep 13 2019 // When Louisiana voters go the polls this fall, in the race for insurance commissioner they’ll have a choice between Louisiana businessman and longtime insurance industry executive, Tim Temple, and current...

U.K. Police Drop Probe Into Pro-Brexit Group Leave.EU, Co-Founded by Insurance Exec

Sep 13 2019 // U.K. police dropped an investigation into whether Brexit supporting campaign Leave.EU breached electoral law, saying there was insufficient evidence to justify any further criminal probe.While Leave.EU made some...

Euro Zone to Launch Public Cryptocurrency in Response to Threat of Facebook’s Libra

Sep 13 2019 // Euro zone governments and central banks are working on a long-term plan to launch a public digital currency that they hope would make redundant projects like Facebook’s Libra, which is seen as a risk to financial...