All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 15 2018 // Cars that drive themselves are finding the clearest paths to showrooms in the U.K., Germany, South Korea and Singapore, where governments have enacted legislation allowing autonomous vehicles to be tested on public roads....
May 15 2018 // A judge scolded Facebook Inc. for misconstruing his own rulings as he ordered the company to face a high-stakes trial accusing it of violating user privacy.The social media giant has misinterpreted prior court orders by...
May 15 2018 // Farm legislation usually has enough incentives to satisfy everyone across the partisan divide in Congress. Not this year.The Republican version set for a House vote on Friday contains so many unpalatable provisions that...
May 11 2018 // The National Rifle Association (NRA) has filed a lawsuit against New York’s insurance regulator and Governor Andrew Cuomo, alleging a regulatory overreach by New York officials that has resulted in violations of the...
May 11 2018 // Insurance Commissioner Kent Sullivan has promoted Doug Slape to second-in-command at the Texas Department of Insurance.Slape has been at the agency since 1988 and has served as deputy commissioner for the Financial...
May 11 2018 // Legislation adding a $12 annual surcharge on insurance policies of every Connecticut residential homeowner to help those homeowners with crumbling foundations is moving to the governor’s desk.The state Senate on...
May 11 2018 // A retail store’s ability to authenticate customers by scanning their unique ear or retinal patterns may seem like something out of a sci-fi movie, but this type of identification technology isn’t...
May 10 2018 // Louisiana state lawmakers again have spurned efforts to enact statewide regulations governing ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft.Facing pushback from senators, House Speaker Taylor Barras pulled House Bill 749...
May 10 2018 // Connecticut moved closer Saturday toward adding a $12 annual surcharge on the insurance policies of every residential homeowner to financially help hundreds, if not thousands, of homeowners with crumbling foundations pay...
May 10 2018 // The U.S. Transportation Department’s 10 winning drone pilot projects aimed at spurring the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in a wide variety of fields do not include Amazon.com Inc. and China’s DJI, but do...
May 9 2018 // State lawmakers will consider whether to increase oversight of carnival rides, including hiring more inspectors, following a deadly accident at the Ohio State Fair that flung riders onto the midway.The proposed changes...
May 9 2018 // FRANKFURT/BRUSSELS/PARIS— Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been billed as the biggest shake-up of data privacy laws since the birth of the web.There’s one problem: many of the regulators...
May 9 2018 // Five of the world’s biggest oil companies asked a judge to throw out New York City’s lawsuit seeking to hold them responsible for costs related to the environmental changes caused by their products.BP Plc,...
May 8 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has run a “stress test” on the state’s largest insurers.Jones said during a press conference on Tuesday that he is the first U.S. financial regulator to...
May 8 2018 // A judge in central California has ordered Stanislaus County to pay nearly $1.4 million in fees to attorneys of a deputy who sued the Sherriff’s Department for discrimination.The Modesto Bee reports an attorney for...
May 8 2018 // There’s no other company on Earth quite like Ant Financial.Spanning online payments, insurance, lending, credit scores, asset management and more, Jack Ma’s Chinese behemoth resembles a mashup of PayPal, Geico,...
May 7 2018 // A bill aimed at prevented insurance companies from cancelling, non-renewing or increasing consumers’ insurance premiums for filing a towing or roadside assistance claim failed to advance in Oklahoma’s...
May 7 2018 // It was the last day of the World Economic Forum in Davos and Wayne Caines, Bermuda’s minister of national security, was about to head home after an exhausting week. But before leaving, he told a group of blockchain...
May 7 2018 // A federal judge has accepted a settlement that would allow those who lost power for days last summer on two North Carolina islands to divvy up more than $10 million.News outlets report that a federal judge on Wednesday...
May 7 2018 // Here’s to ruffling feathers: Indeed, entities do exist in the insurance industry that do not look after their customers adequately. Carriers also exist that scrimp on claims, and some take shortcuts in underwriting,...