All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 9 2017 // The Oklahoma Ethics Commission is considering a rule change that would ban all state employees and officials from lobbying for two years after their tenure ends.The proposed rule change would create what Oklahoma officials...
Oct 9 2017 // Kansas residents are broadening the fight over an oil-related waste disposal well in the Flint Hills into a protest of similar wells across several counties.Residents of Chase, Morris and other counties known for open...
Oct 9 2017 // A former physician and Boy Scout leader from Missouri has been ordered to pay $120 million to a boy who he sexually abused for years.The Kansas City Star reports a Jackson County judge awarded the damages in a civil...
Oct 9 2017 // Matt Honea, cyber manager at Cyence, a San Mateo, Calif.-based cyber risk modeler, thinks a great way to get companies to report cyber attacks is to make them do it.Honea, who believes insurers can be a catalyst for...
Oct 6 2017 // A federal judge said current and former Wells Fargo & Co. officers and directors, including Chief Executive Officer Tim Sloan, must face nearly all of a lawsuit by shareholders seeking to hold them personally liable...
Oct 5 2017 // A U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday unanimously gave the green light to a bill aimed at speeding the use of self-driving cars without human controls, a measure that also bars states from imposing regulatory road blocks.The...
Oct 4 2017 // When disaster hits the chemical plants in Port Arthur, Texas, triggering fires like those that flared in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Hilton Kelley is the man fielding panicked calls from neighbors unsure whether they...
Oct 4 2017 // A coalition of auto safety advocates criticized a bill before the U.S. Congress that would allow automakers eventually to sell up to 100,000 self-driving vehicles annually if they could demonstrate they are as safe as...
Oct 4 2017 // A federal utility is appealing a judge’s order to excavate and move its coal ash at a Tennessee power plant.In Nashville federal court Monday, the Tennessee Valley Authority filed an appeal notice over its Gallatin...
Oct 3 2017 // Drones may already be impacting the world of workers’ compensation.Fewer workers on communications towers are falling to their deaths, according to Todd Schlekeway, executive director of the National Association of...
Oct 3 2017 // Everest Re Group Ltd. has said its Dublin-based unit has received approval from the Central Bank of Ireland to become a non-life insurer, joining a growing list of insurers setting up regulated EU operations in case...
Oct 3 2017 // This week, the U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether employees have the right to bring class actions against their bosses. With the court’s Republican majority restored this year by President Donald Trump, labor...
Oct 3 2017 // North Carolina legislators are grappling with the growing knowledge that industries have discharged unstudied chemicals into the state’s waters for years, and that a recent upsurge in concern carries the risk of...
Oct 2 2017 // A coalition of corporate lobbying groups, led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, sued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to overturn a rule that makes it easier for aggrieved customers to file lawsuits against...
Oct 2 2017 // This year, the beginning of September marked a critical implementation deadline for some of the toughest new cybersecurity regulations in the country – the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS)...
Oct 2 2017 // The Arizona Supreme Court is letting stand a lower court’s ruling that the state’s medical marijuana law is constitutional in requiring counties to approve reasonable zoning regulations. Maricopa County...
Oct 2 2017 // As homeowners file insurance claims in the wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, many could find their level of protection depends on the state where their damaged home is located, according to a research report released by...
Sep 29 2017 // The Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Department, has affirmed an earlier Supreme Court decision to grant summary judgement to TransCanada Energy USA and its subsidiaries, TC Ravenswood Services Corp....
Sep 29 2017 // Equifax Inc. promised to make it easier for consumers to control access to their credit records in the wake of the company’s massive breach after the top U.S. consumer financial watchdog called on the industry to...
Sep 28 2017 // The House of Representatives voted 264-155 today to pass bipartisan legislation that encourages the sale of private flood insurance in place of policies from the federal government in high risk areas where flood insurance...