All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 20 2015 // Taxi owners accused Boston officials of violating their constitutional rights by permitting Uber Technologies Inc. and other ride-sharing services to operate on city streets.The cabbies, in a lawsuit filed last Friday by...
Jan 20 2015 // About 3,000 Superstorm Sandy victims who were either wrongly given storm recovery aid or who were overpaid would not have to repay the federal government under legislation to be introduced this week by two New Jersey...
Jan 20 2015 // Complaints about how subdivision and condominium homeowners associations operate have led South Carolina lawmakers to introduce four bills to more closely regulate the groups.The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reports that...
Jan 16 2015 // A federal bankruptcy judge has approved a reorganization plan for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena in Montana that includes a $16.4 million settlement for hundreds of people who sued over clergy sex abuse from the...
Jan 16 2015 // A Kanawha County, W. Va., judge has dismissed a lawsuit that accused a St. Albans body shop owner of illegally installing junkyard parts on new vehicles.Former Attorney General Darrell McGraw filed the lawsuit in 2011...
Jan 15 2015 // BP Plc will face a maximum fine of $13.7 billion under the Clean Water Act for its Gulf of Mexico oil spill, several billion less than feared, after a judge found on Thursday the size of the spill was smaller than the U.S....
Jan 15 2015 // New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman will propose legislation on Thursday that he says would make the state’s data security law the strongest in the country and require “unprecedented safeguards”...
Jan 15 2015 // The United States rolled out a sweeping set of measures on Thursday to ease the half-century-old embargo against Cuba, opening up the country to expanded travel, trade and financial activities.Defying hardline critics in...
Jan 15 2015 // Property/casualty insurance executives overwhelmingly predict growth in both cyber insurance and merger and acquisitions (M&A) activity in 2015, according to a new Insurance Information Institute annual...
Jan 15 2015 // President Barack Obama’s bid to get Congress to pass stalled cybersecurity legislation is seen as having an uphill fight amid differences between Republicans and the administration over privacy safeguards and other...
Jan 14 2015 // A Virginia judge has ordered a new trial on damages in a coal contract dispute between Massey Energy and the owner of three defunct coal companies.In May 2014, a jury in Buchanan County, Virginia, awarded $4 million to...
Jan 14 2015 // President Barack Obama sought to rally Congress to pass stalled U.S. cybersecurity legislation, an effort that may face obstacles as tensions with key Republicans quickly began to surface.Obama announced Tuesday revised...
Jan 14 2015 // Highway regulators have failed to act on more than 100 recommendations to improve truck safety at a time when fatalities have risen for four straight years, according to the U.S. National Transportation Safety...
Jan 13 2015 // Opportunity was a theme that came up often at the annual California Wholesaler Industry Days convention from Sunday through today in La Jolla, Calif. at Hilton Torrey Pines.The three-day conference organized by the...
Jan 12 2015 // A lawsuit filed January 5 by conservationists asks that rules on fracking in North Carolina be thrown out, arguing the panel that developed the rules was formed in violation of the state Constitution.Lawyers representing...
Jan 12 2015 // A clear majority of Georgia voters support legalizing medical marijuana, but they appear more closely split on whether to permit its recreational use, according to a poll by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.The poll showed...
Jan 12 2015 // A governor’s commission aimed at addressing New Hampshire’s high workers’ compensation costs recommended no significant changes to state laws in a new report and instead suggested gathering more data and...
Jan 12 2015 // Florida’s workers’ compensation market remains competitive and well-capitalized, with loss ratios that are among the lowest among larger states, according to a report from the state’s insurance...
Jan 12 2015 // The Oregon Supreme Court has ruled a ski resort’s broad liability waiver cannot prevent a paralyzed snowboarder from suing.The justices ruled that the liability waiver was “unconscionable” and contrary to...
Jan 9 2015 // The remaining age-discrimination claims against Boeing Co. and Spirit AeroSystems were tossed out by a federal judge in Kansas on Jan. 7, a major blow to a lawsuit that’s spanned nine years.When Boeing sold its...