All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 12 2017 // A U.S. judge said he intends to give final approval to Volkswagen AG’s $1.225 billion settlement with regulators and about 78,000 drivers of premium Audis, VWs and Porsches over the company’s diesel...
May 12 2017 // Uber faces the biggest challenge yet to its European roll-out after the region’s top court was advised to rule that the U.S. ride-hailing firm is actually a transport service not an app.Although the opinion of the...
May 12 2017 // A judge effectively killed off any practical chance of Anthem Inc merging with Cigna Corp on Thursday as he declined to order Cigna not to terminate the deal.Judge Travis Laster of Delaware’s Court of Chancery denied...
May 11 2017 // Believe it or not, the planet could be much warmer in the next few years, according to new research.The research, published this week in Geophysical Research Letters, indicates that Earth could be 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit...
May 11 2017 // Ohio Gov. John Kasich believes too many people are dying in manufactured homes, and he wants oversight of those homes transferred from an industry-controlled board to the state.Statistics compiled by the State Fire...
May 11 2017 // Missouri lawmakers have passed a bill to raise the standard for employees to sue for discrimination over workers’ compensation claims.Senators voted 23-10 on May 8 to send the legislation to Republican Gov. Eric...
May 11 2017 // A judge has ruled that two statutes of the Alabama Workmans Compensation Act are unconstitutional, thereby rendering the entire act unconstitutional because of a non-severability statute.The Gadsden Times reports Jefferson...
May 11 2017 // Georgia’s public university presidents and police chiefs were strongly opposed to letting people carry concealed handguns on college campuses. Now that Gov. Nathan Deal has signed the campus-carry law, it falls on...
May 10 2017 // Voters won’t be deciding whether they want to ban certain traffic cameras in Louisiana.The House transportation committee resoundingly defeated the proposal from Republican Rep. Paul Hollis, of Covington, to prohibit...
May 10 2017 // This week’s post has been something of a struggle for me. I’ve had to catch up on a lot of terminology and the progress that has been made in the autonomous vehicle world. In way, it has always seemed like...
May 9 2017 // Gibraltar is preparing for a post-Brexit setup in which its firms will have no longer access to the European Union market but will maintain a preferential relationship with Britain, a top Gibraltar financial official said...
May 9 2017 // Florida lawmakers have once again let slip an opportunity to address insurance claims abuse, as legislation failed to make it through the Senate before the 2017 legislative session ended Friday.This is the fifth...
May 8 2017 // Weighing in on how Nevada should test people for stoned driving, lawmakers advanced a measure to eliminate urine samples as a viable measure for police to show a driver to be impaired by marijuana.Under the bipartisan...
May 8 2017 // Tennessee could soon tighten amusement park safety regulations after people were injured on rides in two incidents last year.The Tennessee House passed a bill Thursday with heightened safety requirements. The Senate...
May 8 2017 // Florida businesses shouldn’t expect relief for workers’ compensation rates, this year at least. The Florida Legislature failed to pass legislation this session addressing 2016 decisions by the Florida Supreme...
May 5 2017 // Note: this story was originally published in the Texas Tribune.The Texas House gave initial passage on May 4 to a bill that would make it harder for property owners to sue insurers over weather-related damage to property....
May 5 2017 // Luxembourg is in talks with a wide range of financial firms looking to relocate out of London as Britain leaves the European Union, but it will not offer sweeteners to undercut rival centers, Finance Minister Pierre...
May 4 2017 // The Chinese insurer that bought New York City’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel is fighting an accusation by China’s leading business magazine that it lied about its finances.The report by Caixin follows a series of...
May 3 2017 // A California bill that could affect auto repair costs is making its way through state Legislature, and one group that’s happy about that is the Association of California Insurance Companies.ACIC is one of several...
May 3 2017 // Nancy G. Atkins has been appointed Commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Insurance (KYDOI), in the wake of Brian Maynard’s decision to vacate the post.Maynard stepped down as commissioner of KYDOI effective...