All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 28 2016 // A U.S. federal judge on Thursday approved a $265 million settlement over an Amtrak passenger train crash in Philadelphia in 2015 that killed eight people and injured about 200 others, court records showed.The settlement...
Oct 27 2016 // The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority opened a review of its regulatory “mission” as the agency looks to redefine itself under a new chief executive officer following a turbulent year.The regulator said...
Oct 26 2016 // South Carolina Director of Insurance Ray Farmer has extended consumer protections provided under an emergency regulation order to 15 additional South Carolina counties with damage resulting from Hurricane Matthew.Farmer...
Oct 26 2016 // A Lansing, Mich.-area doctor who is a former state lawmaker has been placed on probation for making false statements to an insurer.Judge Robert Jonker on Oct. 24 gave a significant break to Paul DeWeese, whose clinic, NBO...
Oct 26 2016 // A U.S. judge on Tuesday approved one of the biggest corporate settlements on record, Volkswagen AG’s $14.7 billion deal arising from its diesel emissions cheating scandal, and the German automaker said it would begin...
Oct 25 2016 // At the American Society of Workers’ Compensation Professionals (AMCOMP) Fall Meeting held recently in New York, Mark Walls, vice president of communications and strategic analysis at Safety National, and Kimberly...
Oct 25 2016 // Insurers aren’t known for their aggressive pushback against overly meddlesome regulations. American insurance companies – like any massive industry – have a large lobbying presence. But they tend to tread...
Oct 25 2016 // A lobbying group representing older Americans sued the Obama administration on Monday claiming regulations for programs designed to rein in employee health care costs will subject workers to invasions of their medical...
Oct 25 2016 // Susan Donegan has been named as the new chief regulatory services officer for the NCCI.Donegan assumed the position on Sept. 19, and succeeds Helen Westervelt, who announced her retirement in January of this year....
Oct 24 2016 // The family of a Des Moines, Iowa woman who died of a prescription-drug overdose is appealing a judge’s rejection of their motion seeking to name the doctor’s former health system as defendants.Brandy...
Oct 24 2016 // Former California state Sen. Ron Calderon was sentenced Friday to 31/2 years in prison in a corruption scandal in which he acknowledged taking bribes in exchange for his influence in Sacramento.U.S. District Court Judge...
Oct 24 2016 // Airbnb, the online lodging service that investors now believe is worth $30 billion, faces a reckoning.In eight years of torrid growth, the company has often clashed with local public officials seeking to minimize the...
Oct 24 2016 // As 2016 winds down and the insurance industry begins to adjust its business and marketing strategies for the new year, cyber criminals are doing exactly the same thing – reviewing their successes and failures, attempting...
Oct 24 2016 // Insurance carriers and agents have come to learn that increased data can lead to greater risk for insureds, and they are increasingly advising businesses to disclose data collection practices while seeking to gain...
Oct 21 2016 // New Mexico officials ran into fresh criticism Tuesday about revisions to the state’s immigrant driver’s license law at a public hearing on the proposed regulations.The Department of Taxation and Revenue has...
Oct 21 2016 // In an increasingly connected and globalized world, the insurance industry needs to work together to understand and accommodate the many disruptions it faces today and in the future, according to Sean Kevelighan, CEO of the...
Oct 19 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones issued a decision regarding the Workers’ Compensation Rating Bureau’s Jan. 1, 2017 regulatory filing submitted to the California Department of Insurance in...
Oct 19 2016 // A judge has allowed a class-action lawsuit alleging gender discrimination by Seattle, Wash.-based Microsoft Corp. to proceed.U.S. District Judge James Robart of Seattle in an order Friday denied the company’s request...
Oct 19 2016 // Volkswagen AG and car owners will likely secure a federal judge’s final sign-off on their $14.7 billion settlement as the automaker continues to seek regulators’ approval of a fix for 482,000 pollution-spewing...
Oct 17 2016 // In advance of a possible headache brewing for workers’ compensation providers, California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Monday notified all workers’ comp insurers writing policies in the state about...