All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 14 2018 // California would beef up dam inspections under legislation sent to Gov. Jerry Brown, a year after a near disaster prompted the evacuation of nearly 200,000 residents living downstream from the tallest U.S. dam.The Assembly...
Feb 14 2018 // A judge awarded $6.7 million Monday to graffiti artists who sued after dozens of spray paintings were destroyed on the walls of dilapidated warehouse buildings torn down to make room for high-rise luxury residences.U.S....
Feb 14 2018 // A video from a drone that flew within feet of an airliner over Las Vegas and prompted outrage on the internet has spurred three influential U.S. aviation lobbies to call for tighter regulations on hobby drones.Legislation...
Feb 14 2018 // Insurers need to be thinking about blockchain technology and virtual currencies like bitcoin and how to approach these areas of emerging risk as they become harder to ignore, according to panelists at the 2018 Professional...
Feb 13 2018 // The public got a chance Monday to comment on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s $200 million plan to reduce health care costs for people purchasing insurance through the private marketplace.Walker is pushing the idea,...
Feb 13 2018 // Nebraska lawmakers could open the door to self-driving cars and trucks this year with new legislation designed to attract the industry while maintaining public safety.A legislative committee is considering two measures...
Feb 13 2018 // One year after the worst structural failures at a major U.S. dam in a generation, federal regulators who oversee California’s half-century-old, towering Oroville Dam say they are looking hard at how they overlooked...
Feb 12 2018 // A U.S. appeals court has thrown out a 2014 jury verdict finding Arab Bank Plc liable for knowingly supporting militant attacks in Israel linked to Hamas, a decision that triggers a settlement agreement with hundreds of...
Feb 12 2018 // Auto manufacturers, technology companies, road safety advocates and policy makers will attend a March 1 conference over potential government actions that could speed the rollout of autonomous cars, the U.S. Transportation...
Feb 9 2018 // Following up on a big change made last year to Kentucky’s medical malpractice system, state lawmakers are considering a measure that would further alter the process of pursuing lawsuits claiming medical error or...
Feb 9 2018 // A U.S. judge in San Francisco on Thursday said a former Grubhub Inc. delivery driver was an independent contractor and not the company’s employee, in the first case of its kind against a “gig economy”...
Feb 8 2018 // South Carolina has alerted insurers of several changes to loss costs for the state’s voluntary and assigned risk workers’ compensation markets, and has issued a requirement that updated loss cost multipliers be...
Feb 8 2018 // The Arkansas Highway Commission has voted to drop an effort to put a road funding plan on the November ballot and instead will try again with a proposal it will advocate to lawmakers next year.Commissioners cited the...
Feb 7 2018 // Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty said Tuesday he’s resigning his lucrative position as the head of the Washington-based Financial Services Roundtable as he contemplates running for his old job.Pawlenty, 57, has...
Feb 7 2018 // U.S. regulators may ask Congress to pass legislation to improve oversight of virtual currencies like bitcoin amid concerns about the risks posed by the emerging asset class, the head of the Securities and Exchange...
Feb 6 2018 // If exploiting a tax loophole is as much an art as a science, then the tax planning profession is poised for a creative renaissance.The inspiration is the tax law signed by President Donald Trump in December. The patrons...
Feb 5 2018 // The state of Tennessee saw domestic captive insurance companies exceed $1 billion in written premiums in 2017 for the first time – a milestone for Tennessee’s burgeoning captive insurance marketplace.In...
Feb 5 2018 // The epidemic of assignment of benefits (AOB) abuse that has been plaguing Florida for several years is only getting worse, says a new report from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR).The most recent data call...
Feb 5 2018 // Texas Security General Insurance Agency LLC (TSGA) in San Antonio, Texas, added David A. Winkley as vice president of Commercial Lines.A former business owner, Winkley has industry experience in retail production,...
Feb 5 2018 // If you live outside of New York State and haven’t heard of the New York State Department of Financial Services 23 NYCRR Part 500 (DFS 500), you should pay very close attention.Earlier this year, New York implemented...