All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 23 2014 // Florida’s workers’ compensation market remains competitive and well-capitalized, with loss ratios that are among the lowest among larger states, according to the latest report from the state’s insurance...
Dec 23 2014 // Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi risks failing to win approval from lawmakers for one of his biggest policy changes yet, a setback that dims prospects for other key bills until he wins greater sway in the upper house.In...
Dec 22 2014 // Ride-sharing service Lyft received regulatory approval on Dec. 18 to operate for two years everywhere in Pennsylvania except for Philadelphia, giving it 30 days to accept conditions required by the Pennsylvania Public...
Dec 22 2014 // 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...
Dec 22 2014 // California’s Department of Motor Vehicles will miss a year-end deadline to adopt new rules for cars of the future because regulators first have to figure out how they’ll know whether “driverless”...
Dec 21 2014 // McDonald’s Corp. wields enough control over its franchisees that it should be jointly responsible for the working conditions of their employees, according to charges by the U.S. labor board critics say threatens to...
Dec 19 2014 // A Los Angeles judge has refused to throw out a lawsuit by a teenager who was paralyzed while making a tackle during a Pop Warner football game.City News Service says the judge on Wednesday rejected a motion to dismiss the...
Dec 19 2014 // Uber argued Thursday that it should not have to turn over ride data in a California regulatory standoff that shows how the transportation service is falling afoul of officials who could threaten its expansion.The issue,...
Dec 18 2014 // Property/casualty insurance industry groups, business associations and observers alike were quick to condemn the death of TRIA renewal for 2014. Without federal terrorism reinsurance in place for 2015, they predicted...
Dec 18 2014 // Lawmakers have advanced a proposal that would sharply increase penalties when employee deaths occur because of safety violations at large companies in Wyoming, which has long been among the top states for workplace...
Dec 18 2014 // Allianz Group has agreed to sell the U.S. personal lines business of its Fireman’s Fund unit to ACE for $365 million by means of renewal rights arrangement.The merger of the personal lines business with ACE and the...
Dec 18 2014 // XL Group’s Professional Liability arm has released a new Executive and Corporate Securities Liability policy form to protect companies and their directors and officers from what it terms “an increasingly...
Dec 17 2014 // The owners of a multistate chain of nursing homes may have committed fraud by transferring liabilities to a shell company that later lost more than $2 billion in jury verdicts to families who claimed relatives died of...
Dec 17 2014 // A U.S. program that backstops insurance companies’ losses from acts of terrorism is set to end after the Senate didn’t extend it.Efforts to reauthorize the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act for six years fell apart...
Dec 16 2014 // New York City won dismissal of a lawsuit challenging its red-light cameras, the first in the U.S., the day before New Jersey is scheduled to shut down its program.Drivers fined for running traffic lights sued the city in...
Dec 16 2014 // When the U.S. House of Representatives approved a terrorism insurance bill last week, it contained a little-noticed provision that would require at least one member of the Federal Reserve’s board to have community...
Dec 15 2014 // Tracy Morgan has won the latest round in his effort to sue Wal-Mart and others over a fatal crash in New Jersey.A federal judge on Dec. 12 refused to delay the lawsuit. The ruling came on a motion by Kevin Roper, the...
Dec 15 2014 // For the second time in three years, the trucking industry has found a friend in Senator Susan Collins.The Maine Republican got a rider attached to the spending bill approved over the weekend so truckers will no longer have...
Dec 15 2014 // The surging popularity of inexpensive radio-controlled airplanes and helicopters raises risks that require a firm response from regulators to ensure safety, the head of a leading commercial aviation trade group told...
Dec 15 2014 // Historically, U.S. companies doing business in Europe weren’t likely to list environmental litigation among their major concerns. While the United States has boasted a robust regulatory environment for some time,...