All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 5 2016 // The Rutgers Center for Risk and Responsibility at Rutgers Law School in Camden, N.J., in collaboration with United Policyholders, is seeking to improve homeowners insurance nationally through its recently launched national...
Dec 5 2016 // On May 12, 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) changed the way the workplace injury game is played. Many believe the playing field was tipped in OSHA’s direction.This will have a dramatic...
Dec 2 2016 // Medical marijuana products sold in Arkansas would have to include detailed labels with information about their laboratory analysis, dosage, source and warnings under a draft of rules being prepared for the launch of the...
Dec 2 2016 // A judge’s ruling that upholds Waller County’s ban on guns in its courthouse keeps the southeast Texas county at odds with the state attorney general.State District Judge Albert McCaig Jr. ruled this week in a...
Dec 2 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones issued new Auto Collision Repair Labor Rate Survey Regulations that he said will increase consumer protections when a damaged vehicle is repaired.The California Department of...
Dec 2 2016 // The House of Representatives took a step toward changing the Dodd-Frank financial regulation law by passing a measure that requires that a systemic risk designation be based on more than a financial institution’s...
Dec 2 2016 // A former Penn State assistant football coach’s treatment by the school after Jerry Sandusky was arrested entitles him to more than $12 million, a judge said Wednesday in a ruling that substantially increased last...
Dec 2 2016 // Legislation introduced by two Democratic lawmakers on Thursday would allow Wells Fargo & Co. customers to go to court, instead of private arbitration, to resolve claims about accounts opened without authorization,...
Dec 2 2016 // Company directors and senior managers across the globe are increasingly likely to face costly regulatory investigations, criminal prosecutions or civil litigation, which not only put their company’s assets, and their...
Dec 1 2016 // Lawyers for Louisiana’s governor and attorney general clashed in court on Nov. 29, in a struggle about the limits of the statewide elected officials’ authority and Gov. John Bel Edwards’ executive order...
Dec 1 2016 // The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a sweeping, $6.3 billion bill that supporters say will spur medical innovation, speed access to new drugs, expand access to mental health treatment and battle the...
Dec 1 2016 // Elaine Chao’s record as secretary of labor suggests she’d have a light hand when it comes to safety regulation as head of the Transportation Department and would seek to shift responsibility from the federal...
Nov 30 2016 // California is taking its fight against global warming to the farm. The nation’s leading agricultural state is now targeting greenhouse gases produced by dairy cows and other livestock.Despite strong opposition from...
Nov 30 2016 // Four priorities for Brexit negotiations have been identified by companies operating in the London insurance market.The objectives outline arrangements that will help the City of London “maintain its position as the...
Nov 30 2016 // Fifteen judges at the European Union’s top court are trying to decide, once and for all, whether Uber Technologies Inc. is an app or a transport company. The question has long vexed regulators and lawmakers across...
Nov 29 2016 // A Kentucky lawmaker is the new president of the National Conference of Insurance Legislators.Rep. Steve Riggs of Louisville began his yearlong tenure this month during the group’s annual meeting. He has previously...
Nov 29 2016 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) is appealing a court order invalidating its approved 14.5 rate increase on Florida workers’ compensation rates that was set to take effect Dec. 1.OIR filed its Notice...
Nov 29 2016 // The Department of Buildings of the City of New York’s (DOB) recent move to better regulate crawler crane operations in New York City has led to concern for some in the insurance industry that a stricter regulatory...
Nov 29 2016 // President-elect Donald Trump said he’ll nominate U.S. Representative Tom Price, one of the main architects of legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare, to be secretary of the Department of Health and Human...
Nov 28 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones today levied $7 million in penalties against online benefits broker Zenefits for multiple license violations.Zenefits was charged with allowing unlicensed employees to transact...