All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 18 2015 // Florida taxi companies may finally get the answer they are looking for from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FDHSMV) regarding minimum insurance requirements for transportation network companies...
Sep 18 2015 // The tension between traditional taxis drivers and those who drive for services like Uber and Lyft was on display Tuesday as Massachusetts lawmakers grappled with proposals to regulate the popular but largely unfettered...
Sep 18 2015 // The Texas 14th Court of Appeals this week ruled in favor of former energy executive in a legal fight over whether the company’s director and officer insurer should have paid to defend or indemnify the executive as...
Sep 18 2015 // Two U.S. senators have asked the world’s biggest automakers for information on steps they have taken to protect cars from being hacked, as attention on vehicle security has surged following the first car recall over...
Sep 16 2015 // Hundreds of banks and credit unions can band together to pursue damages from Target Corp. over a 2013 hacking attack that compromised as many as 40 million payment cards.The ruling Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Paul...
Sep 16 2015 // A judge on Monday rejected a bid by North Carolina’s environment agency to block Duke Energy from removing toxic coal ash from more plants than required under a new state law.Duke Energy has asked to add three power...
Sep 11 2015 // A federal judge has struck down as unconstitutional a suburban New York town’s law banning day laborers from soliciting for work on public sidewalks, declaring its broad application could affect children selling...
Sep 10 2015 // Gov. Pat McCrory has signed into law state regulations for ridesharing companies where potential customers use smartphone apps to hail drivers and complete cashless transactions.McCrory signed the legislation Sept. 4 at...
Sep 9 2015 // Congressional Republicans were allowed by a judge to pursue their lawsuit accusing the Obama administration of violating the Constitution by spending money on the president’s signature legislative achievement, the...
Sep 9 2015 // California lawmakers negotiated frantically behind the scenes on Tuesday over the fate of several proposals to dramatically reduce the state’s use of fossil fuels and slash the amount of greenhouse gases that legally...
Sep 9 2015 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has approved a slate of 2016 property insurance rates for Citizens Property Insurance Corp.In an order signed September 8 by Florida Commissioner Kevin McCarty, FLOIR set the...
Sep 8 2015 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has spoken out against a proposal by state lawmakers to eliminate funding for driver education through public high schools as a way to help close a deficit in the state...
Sep 8 2015 // Xuber, Xchanging’s insurance software business, has published a survey, which concludes that almost three-quarters (71 percent) of insurance executives believe a UK exit from the European Union would be bad for...
Sep 7 2015 // A new law that became effective Sept. 1 in Texas will give the state’s property insurer of last resort for wind and hail along the coast more leeway in its plan to reduce overall exposure by incenting private...
Sep 7 2015 // In a 25-year span leading up to 2005, homeowners insurers in Louisiana wrote a total of $13 billion in homeowners insurance premium, from which they earned $1 billion in profit, according to the chief actuary at the state...
Sep 7 2015 // Times are good for surplus lines professionals.The surplus lines industry reached new heights in 2014, growing direct premium written (DPW) in 2014 to $40.2 billion – the highest point in history, reports A.M....
Sep 7 2015 // If one word could describe Lloyd’s of London, it would be “change.” There are very few business enterprises that have stayed in business as long as Lloyd’s – 327 years. It has survived wars,...
Sep 4 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 4 2015 // The Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that an Oregon State University fraternity can be held liable for failing to shield a rape victim from harm. The Oregonian reported that the court ruled Wednesday that the woman can go...
Sep 4 2015 // Some legislators are once again trying to expand the number of certain erosion-controlling structures allowed by law along the North Carolina coast. This time, they’re trying to do it through the state...