All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 29 2015 // The New Hampshire Secretary of State’s office plans to continue fighting a proposal in the Senate’s budget that takes away its authority to monitor the state’s public risk pools.The New Hampshire Senate...
May 29 2015 // Alpha Natural Resources must pay the legal expenses of Donald Blankenship, the former chief executive officer of Massey Energy, which Alpha acquired in 2011.The fight over fees arose from charges filed against Blankenship...
May 28 2015 // U.S. House Republicans suing the Obama administration over the federal health care law should change it if they don’t like it, a Justice Department lawyer told a skeptical federal judge in a bid to have the lawsuit...
May 28 2015 // With the legislative session winding down in Texas, a measure sought by the insurance industry that its proponents say would help rein in litigation related to property insurance claims has died in the House of...
May 27 2015 // New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio recently signed into law the Stop Credit Discrimination in Employment Act. It amends the city’s Human Rights Law to prohibit most New York City employers from using or requesting an...
May 27 2015 // The Texas lawmaker who wanted to bar media access to the names of people involved in traffic accidents now says it probably won’t survive a court challenge and will likely be dropped.The Senate approved the measure...
May 27 2015 // Texas lawmakers passed a bill allowing faculty and students to carry concealed handguns inside classrooms on public college campuses.The legislation, approved over opposition from university officials, prevents schools...
May 27 2015 // Many in the reinsurance industry feel the business is becoming over-regulated and London is getting expensive as the center of the industryXuber, Xchanging’s insurance software business, recently released its second...
May 27 2015 // Property insurers in Mississippi have until October 1, 2015 to respond to the Mississippi Insurance Department’s (MID) first call for homeowners’ insurance policy data that will be used to satisfy the...
May 26 2015 // A long-running effort in Connecticut to extend workers’ compensation benefits to police officers who receive mental health injuries on the job cleared a key hurdle on May 22 after years of defeat in the General...
May 26 2015 // Two New York state lawmakers from Queens have introduced bills to regulate motorized bicycles used commercially with safety and insurance requirements.Sen. Jose Peralta and Assembly member Aravella Simotas propose that the...
May 26 2015 // A hard-fought bill to regulate ridesharing companies such as Uber and Lyft got the green light from Nevada lawmakers in the wee hours of Saturday morning, after weeks of behind-the-scenes negotiations, several public...
May 26 2015 // The New Hampshire Secretary of State’s office could lose its ability to oversee a public risk pool it’s had issues with for years, if a last-minute amendment to the state Senate budget remains in place.The New...
May 26 2015 // A 2003 law capping medical malpractice lawsuit awards at $500,000 can’t be applied retroactively.That’s what the Supreme Court ruled in a Miami-Dade County case in which a woman suffered permanent damage to her...
May 22 2015 // Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law a prohibition on cities and towns imposing local ordinances preventing fracking and other potentially environmentally harmful oil and natural gas activities.The...
May 22 2015 // A bill to ease regulations across the U.S. financial sector passed a Senate committee on Thursday with no support from Democrats, in a setback to the largest overhaul of 2010 banking reforms since the rules were put in...
May 22 2015 // Uber is operating legally in Portland, for now. A pilot program adopted by the Portland City Council has given transportation network companies the green light to operate for four months, at which time the city council...
May 21 2015 // Steve Wynn’s push for a stronger hand when suing people who badmouth him is being viewed by some, including Yelp Inc., as stacking the deck against free speech.The social media site called on its subscribers to stop...
May 21 2015 // Uber Technologies Inc.’s attempt to replace a patchwork of local rules in Texas with a state law regulating its car-booking business is headed for defeat because lawmakers have yet to act on a key measure with only...
May 20 2015 // Japanese air bag manufacturer Takata Corp. is doubling a recall of potentially deadly air bags to nearly 34 million vehicles, making it the largest automotive recall in American history, U.S. safety regulators said on...