All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 14 2016 // Changing marijuana laws aren’t necessarily making weed more welcome in the workplace.For now, many employers appear to be sticking with their drug testing and personal conduct policies, even in states where...
Dec 13 2016 // Stanton Strickland, deputy commissioner of the Legal Division at the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), will join the Mitchell Williams Insurance Regulatory Practice Group in its Austin office, the law firm...
Dec 12 2016 // It’s been a tumultuous year for the Florida insurance industry.It would seem the biggest story would be the end of Florida’s hurricane drought as the state got hit by not one, but two hurricanes this year, the...
Dec 12 2016 // Ten months after its last chief executive officer departed, the national organization of state insurance regulators has named former Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Michael F. Consedine as its new CEO. Consedine will...
Dec 9 2016 // Ride-sharing company Uber wants the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to delay policy recommendations that govern the testing of driverless cars.Uber, which has been testing the driverless cars in Pittsburgh for...
Dec 9 2016 // In a moment of peace-making with regulators, Airbnb on Wednesday released a set of policy suggestions for governments that are considering new laws for home- and apartment-renting.The document, which comes on the heels of...
Dec 9 2016 // A California federal judge has rendered a ruling on the insurance dispute that emanated from the fatal train accident during the 2014 shooting of the Gregg Allman biopic Midnight Rider in Georgia. In a summary judgment...
Dec 8 2016 // California Superior Court Judge Katherine Bacal has denied State Farm’s emergency request to stay Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones’s order directing State Farm to reduce homeowner and renter rates by 7...
Dec 8 2016 // Lawmakers on Tuesday discussed the idea of merging embattled New Jersey Transit with other state agencies to save money to use for road, bridge and rail projects, and heard from experts about safety upgrades following a...
Dec 8 2016 // Government entities aren’t automatically blocked from releasing information such as the exact location of a crime to the public under a new victims’ rights constitutional amendment, Attorney General Marty...
Dec 8 2016 // Florida lawmakers can expect substantial pressure to tackle the assignment of benefits (AOB) and water loss claims crisis from the state’s insurer of last resort when Florida’s legislative session begins early...
Dec 7 2016 // The state of Oregon has temporarily eased up on testing requirements for marijuana, days after business insiders warned that new rules would cause a drop in state tax revenues, an increase in black-market sales and layoffs...
Dec 7 2016 // U.S. health insurers signaled Tuesday that they’re willing to give up a cornerstone provision of Obamacare that requires all Americans to have insurance, replacing it with a different set of incentives less loathed...
Dec 6 2016 // Apple Inc. is wading in to the debate over regulation of self-driving cars, declaring it is excited about the potential for automated transportation and calling on U.S. regulators not to restrict testing of such vehicles.A...
Dec 6 2016 // Investors and companies are getting a preview of how the Taiwan government’s plan to become “Asia’s Silicon Valley” might fare.Uber Technologies Inc., one of Silicon Valley’s most disruptive...
Dec 6 2016 // The Florida Supreme Court has ruled in favor of policyholders seeking coverage on claims where there is the possibility of multiple concurrent losses but at least one of the losses is covered under their policy.Though the...
Dec 5 2016 // A California state senator introduced a bill on Monday that would mandate reporting of antibiotic-resistant infections and deaths and require doctors to record the infections on death certificates when they are a cause of...
Dec 5 2016 // A federal judge in Nebraska has ordered Douglas County’s insurance carrier to pay $5 million — plus legal costs — to two men wrongfully jailed for months in the 2006 killing of a Murdock couple because the...
Dec 5 2016 // Lloyd’s announced details of its new Corporation Operating Model (COM) that it said will enable it to deliver its Vision 2025* more effectively and efficiently.Effective Jan. 1, 2017, COM will enable Lloyd’s to...
Dec 5 2016 // The California Supreme Court says companies can be held liable for exposing members of a worker’s household to asbestos.The court ruled unanimously that companies have a responsibility to prevent such exposure when...