All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 8 2015 // Jackson has taken a step toward regulating ride-hailing services such as Uber after the Rules Committee of the Jackson City Council voted to send a suggested ordinance to the full council.The suggested regulations include...
Dec 8 2015 // A South Carolina lawmaker is proposing that the state set up an online database where violations, arrests and investigations linked to fraternity and sorority activities at the state’s public colleges can be...
Dec 7 2015 // A Utah judge tossed out a lawsuit claiming a school district didn’t do enough to protect students from a female teacher who sexually abused three male students.Judge John Morris said he was ruling in line with a Utah...
Dec 7 2015 // U.S. property/casualty insurers should expect disruptive changes in a number of areas in 2016, including technology, pricing, customer demand, and “heightened regulatory creep,” consultant Ernst & Young...
Dec 7 2015 // New York regulators are considering a host of cybersecurity requirements for banks and insurers and urged other state and federal authorities to collaborate on establishing a framework of defenses for the financial...
Dec 4 2015 // Energy pipeline operator Kinder Morgan Inc. is on the hook for the bulk of $171 million in damages owed to investors in an affiliate of El Paso Corp., which Kinder Morgan acquired in 2014, a Delaware judge ruled on...
Dec 4 2015 // The investigation into the death of a Mabton, Wash. dairy worker who drowned in a manure pit shows the man had drugs in his system.Randy Vasquez drowned March 4 in a manure storage lagoon at Riverview Ranch. The dairy was...
Dec 4 2015 // To hear Donald L. Blankenship tell it, the U.S. coal industry has been undone by inept regulators, evil unions, the media and “global warming hoaxers.” But for jurors at his criminal trial in Charleston, West...
Dec 3 2015 // The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to repeal the core of Obamacare, bringing Congress closer to sending legislation to President Barack Obama for the first time that would dismantle his signature domestic...
Dec 3 2015 // U.S House and Senate lawmakers reached agreement on Tuesday on a $305 billion, five-year transportation bill that would revive the politically embattled Export-Import Bank while funding roads, bridges and mass transit.The...
Dec 3 2015 // A judge has ruled against a 13-year-old girl who took North Carolina to court over climate change, but the eighth-grader says she’ll continue to fight for environmental protections.The News & Observer of Raleigh...
Dec 2 2015 // Sometimes, small victories are worthy of celebration. A qualified celebration of just that variety is in order at the California Department of Insurance headquarters in Sacramento to mark the relative improvement in the...
Dec 2 2015 // A judge has ordered Illinois to pay more than $13 million to cover the cost of health insurance for home healthcare workers.SEIU Healthcare Illinois took legal action against Gov. Bruce Rauner and Comptroller Leslie Munger...
Dec 2 2015 // The conviction of former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has shaken New York politics down to the granite foundations of the state Capitol, provoking fresh calls to overhaul a system that has stubbornly...
Dec 1 2015 // Vermont, Utah, Iowa, Virginia and Kentucky get an “A” and North Carolina an “F” in one think tank’s annual grading of states on how they regulate the property/casualty insurance industry.The...
Dec 1 2015 // Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) Commissioner Julie Mix McPeak was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). She joins the other 2016 NAIC officers...
Nov 30 2015 // The Federal Reserve Board on Monday approved a proposal to curb its emergency lending powers, a change demanded by Congress after the central bank’s controversial decision to aid AIG, Citigroup and others in 2008.The...
Nov 30 2015 // General Motors Co. and its law firm need not turn over privileged documents to drivers hoping to show that the automaker intended to commit a crime or fraud by concealing defective ignition switches in their vehicles, a...
Nov 29 2015 // Dozens of Florida cities and counties oppose a plan to give the state control over the oil and gas exploration process known as fracking.The Tallahassee Democrat reported on Nov. 28 that 20 counties and nearly 40 cities in...
Nov 24 2015 // The Florida ridesharing lawsuit filed by two taxi companies and an individual against the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FDHSMV) is getting more contentious by the day.Two motions have been filed...