All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 8 2022 // Sacha Baron Cohen on Thursday defeated an appeal by former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore who had accused the British comedian of defamation for falsely portraying him as a pedophile in an interview for the show...
Jul 8 2022 // UK judges paved the way for a group of more than 200,000 people to bring a suit against BHP Group Ltd. over its role in the deadly collapse of a mining dam in Brazil.The appeal judges overturned a lower court ruling...
Jul 7 2022 // The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that attorney’s fees from a consumer protection lawsuit are not covered as part of bodily injury damages under a business liability policy, reversing a lower court...
Jul 6 2022 // EU lawmakers gave the thumbs up on Tuesday to landmark rules to rein in tech giants such as Alphabet unit Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft, but enforcement could be hampered by regulators’ limited...
Jul 1 2022 // Fifteen Black former or current employees at Tesla filed a lawsuit against the electric car maker on Thursday, alleging they were subjected to racial abuse and harassment at its factories.The workers said they were...
Jun 30 2022 // The European Union on Thursday will seek agreement on ground-breaking rules for regulating crypto assets as the rout in bitcoin piles pressure on authorities to rein in the sector.Globally, crypto assets are largely...
Jun 29 2022 // Florida insurers may have another weapon in the war over assignments of benefits in insurance claims, thanks to an appeals court ruling that went against one of the insurance industry’s most visible and active...
Jun 28 2022 // A federal judge in California on Monday ordered a new trial on the damages Tesla Inc. owes to a Black former factory worker who accused the company of race discrimination, after he turned down a $15 million award.U.S....
Jun 28 2022 // Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has appointed three insurance defense attorneys to the state’s workers’ compensation bench. Jacobs (Linkedin) Jill Jacobs has worked as deputy city attorney for Palm Beach for the last...
Jun 28 2022 // Religious schools got what they wanted when the Supreme Court allowed them to participate in a state tuition program.But the state attorney general said the ruling will be for naught unless the schools are willing to abide...
Jun 23 2022 // Britain should avoid hasty reforms to make its financial sector more globally competitive after the industry’s separation from the European Union by Brexit, a parliamentary report said on Thursday.The finance...
Jun 22 2022 // Members of Congress from Louisiana are calling for federal officials to extend deadlines for spending Hurricane Katrina recovery funds on New Orleans road and water infrastructure projects.Sens. Bill Cassidy and John...
Jun 20 2022 // Insurance regulation in the United States is overly complicated, unreasonably difficult, and at times it’s totally politically motivated because everyone wants to keep their job or get a better one. The system of...
Jun 16 2022 // A federal judge in Nebraska removed a major obstacle for activists who want to legalize medical marijuana via a ballot campaign, ruling that petition circulators no longer have to gather signatures from at least 5% of...
Jun 16 2022 // Brexit is no reason to radically alter British financial regulation and regulators should not be forced to water down rules to boost London’s competitiveness, or stray from global standards, a UK parliamentary...
Jun 15 2022 // Happy the elephant may be intelligent and deserving of compassion, but she cannot be considered a person being illegally confined to the Bronx Zoo, New York’s top court ruled Tuesday.The 5-2 decision by the state...
Jun 14 2022 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) said in the last two weeks it intends to amend at least five regulations.The LDI seems to amend Regulation 42 to bring the regulation into alignment with current law. Definitions...
Jun 13 2022 // The New York attorney general’s lawsuit against the National Rifle Association is no mere “witch hunt,” a New York judge ruled Friday in dismissing the gun rights advocacy group’s claims that the...
Jun 10 2022 // The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed a district court’s dismissal of federal actions in a lawsuit that Applied Underwriters and the California Insurance Co. filed against the California...
Jun 10 2022 // MAPFRE USA Hires Zimmerman to Lead Commercial LinesMAPFRE USA, a leading personal and commercial auto writer and home insurer in Massachusetts, announced that Jesse Zimmerman has joined the leadership team as vice...