All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 24 2023 // A federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit by three former Whole Foods employees who said they were illegally fired for opposing the upscale grocery chain’s alleged discriminatory discipline of workers who wore...
Jan 20 2023 // A federal judge on Thursday ordered Boeing Co BA.N to appear in court on Jan. 26 to be arraigned on a 2021 felony charge after families of those killed in two fatal crashes objected to a 2021 plea deal.Boeing won immunity...
Jan 19 2023 // The US Supreme Court refused to block new safety and record-keeping requirements that apply to New York gun retailers, letting the provisions stay in effect while a legal fight goes forward.The justices, without...
Jan 19 2023 // BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – As Louisiana continues to be plagued by insurance woes, with insurers leaving or going out of business in the hurricane-stricken state, some lawmakers say a special legislative session to address...
Jan 18 2023 // ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – The Minnesota Legislature embarked on a path toward legalizing recreational marijuana for adults last Wednesday when a legislative committee held the first hearing of the year on a bill that...
Jan 17 2023 // Westfield National Insurance Co. and Motorists Mutual Insurance Co. are not required by their insurance contracts to defend generic drug distributor Quest Pharmaceuticals against dozens of opioid-related lawsuits.According...
Jan 17 2023 // NEW ORLEANS (AP) _ A nursing home owner who faces criminal and civil complaints over evacuating residents to a squalid warehouse to ride out Hurricane Ida in 2021 is now being sued by federal authorities who say he...
Jan 13 2023 // UK lawmakers have called on Amazon to clarify comments made by a senior executive at a recent parliamentary hearing, after an advocacy group accused him of providing “misleading” evidence concerning the...
Jan 12 2023 // Texas lawmakers returned to Austin this week for the start of the 88th Legislature, which portends to be a relatively quiet legislative session for hearing property and casualty concerns.“I think insurance is...
Jan 11 2023 // Suggesting that New Jersey’s recent concealed carry law infringes on the public’s Second Amendment rights, a federal judge on Monday put a temporary hold on the legislation drafted after the U.S. Supreme Court...
Jan 9 2023 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Republican lawmakers who control the Wisconsin Legislature are moving closer to supporting the legalization of medical marijuana, after years of fighting efforts to loosen the state’s laws, the...
Jan 9 2023 // A federal judge last week approved an $11 million deal to end a proposed class action lawsuit against insurance technology provider Zywave.The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in June...
Jan 6 2023 // LIVINGSTON, La. (AP) – A south Louisiana parish cannot enforce a moratorium blocking a global gas supply company from conducting seismic tests or building test wells in Lake Maurepas, a federal judge has ruled.Air...
Jan 6 2023 // A federal judge has slashed millions of dollars from the damages a jury ordered white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay for their role in the violence that erupted during the deadly “Unite the Right”...
Jan 4 2023 // Minimum wage earners will see a pay increase and employers will have to pay departing employees for unused vacation time under laws taking effect Jan. 1 in Maine.Maine’s minimum wage will increase from $12.75 to...
Jan 3 2023 // The head of the Vermont Senate Judiciary Committee says he’s going to introduce a bill in the upcoming legislative session to close an exemption to the state’s child abuse and neglect reporting laws for members...
Jan 2 2023 // A federal appeals court has ruled that a Florida school district’s policy of separating school bathrooms based on biological sex is constitutional.The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced its 7-4 decision on...
Dec 28 2022 // A law firm that was called into a federal judge’s courtroom to explain why there were so many errors in the hurricane lawsuits it filed against insurers now finds itself in hot water with a second federal judge.US...
Dec 28 2022 // A federal judge has dismissed a complaint leveled against an insurer alleging bad faith in the handling of a data breach claim but has advanced the underlying dispute of whether the insured suffered business interruption...
Dec 27 2022 // A U.S. judge on Thursday [Dec. 22] barred 3M Co. from trying to avoid liability for injuries current and former U.S. military members sustained from its allegedly defective earplugs by shifting blame to a subsidiary.U.S....