All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 5 2015 // Contractors have been tearing down hundreds of Portland homes without properly removing the asbestos inside, a practice that ignores state regulations and could put workers at risk.An investigation by The Oregonian found...
Oct 2 2015 // A Kentucky district court judge is challenging a county attorney’s revenue-generating traffic school in the state.Kentucky news outlets report Judge Sean Delahanty is opposed to the operation of Jefferson County...
Oct 1 2015 // It’s all a masquerade. The business world has not embraced action on climate change as statements from some corporations seem to indicate.So says a new watchdog group out of London. Nonprofit InfluenceMap late last...
Oct 1 2015 // Florida State Representative Bill Hager says the state is turning up the heat on the National Flood Insurance Program as Florida residents become increasingly concerned with the high rates they are paying for flood...
Sep 30 2015 // The Ohio Senate is considering a bill that would create one set of statewide regulations for ridesharing services such as Uber and Lyft.The lawmakers’ work comes as Uber plans to expand its Ohio workforce by adding...
Sep 30 2015 // The European Union will ease capital rules it has imposed on banks and insurers since the financial crisis to help markets raise more funds for reviving sluggish economic growth.The bloc’s financial services chief,...
Sep 28 2015 // Contractors have been tearing down hundreds of Portland homes without properly removing the asbestos inside, a practice that ignores state regulations and could put workers at risk.An investigation by The Oregonian found...
Sep 27 2015 // Missouri Department of Insurance Director John M. Huff has appointed five veteran regulators to new and expanded leadership roles.Angela Nelson, director of the Market Regulation Division, has been tasked with the...
Sep 25 2015 // Batman won’t have to worry about Batmobile knockoffs after a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday the caped crusader’s vehicle is entitled to copyright protection.The Batmobile’s bat-like appearance and...
Sep 25 2015 // Munich Re and Marsh & McLennan Cos., the largest insurance broker by market value, introduced a product to insure U.S. pharmaceutical companies against regulatory actions that could cause them to suspend...
Sep 24 2015 // The Missouri Supreme Court has given fresh life to a lawsuit that claims the Kansas City Chiefs fired an older maintenance manager because of his age.In vacating a Jackson County jury’s decision that the club...
Sep 24 2015 // National authorities in the European Union will have to submit to binding arbitration if they can’t decide whether to apply the bloc’s new rules on simple securitizations to a transaction, a European Commission...
Sep 23 2015 // Marsh and Munich Re have launched non-damage business interruption insurance (NDBI) product that combines risk transfer and consulting services to assist life sciences companies in managing the impact of regulatory actions...
Sep 22 2015 // Law firm Hogan Lovells announced that former Maryland Insurance Commissioner Therese Goldsmith has joined firm’s Health practice and the Insurance Industry sector group as a partner in the Baltimore office.Goldsmith...
Sep 21 2015 // A former Uber Technologies Inc. driver defeated the company’s bid to force her into arbitration, a second victory after California’s labor commissioner said she should have been considered an employee.A San...
Sep 21 2015 // Maurice “Hank” Greenberg’s Starr International Co. can move forward with a lawsuit claiming the U.S. owes it a $38 million tax refund.A Washington federal judge on Friday rejected government claims that...
Sep 21 2015 // Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker says he hopes disagreements over how to regulate ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft won’t keep lawmakers from passing a bill soon.A legislative committee reviewed several...
Sep 21 2015 // U.S. District Chief Judge Jorge A. Solis issued an order on Sept. 11, 2015, to override a confidential settlement that would have re-directed nearly $600,000 away from a class of 32 intellectually disabled former employees...
Sep 21 2015 // A U.S. judge has granted final approval to a $415 million settlement that ends a high profile lawsuit in which workers accused Apple, Google and two other Silicon Valley companies of conspiring to hold down salaries.The...
Sep 21 2015 // The Tennessee Supreme Court affirmed a lower court’s decision that a chiropractic patient’s assignment of benefits was not an effective assignment of his insurance proceeds from a third party’s insurance...