All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 17 2012 // A Nevada judge has fined Las Vegas Sands Corp. $25,000, citing its failure to disclose important information in a lawsuit filed by a fired executive against the casino company.Clark County District Judge Elizabeth Gonzales...
Sep 17 2012 // Insurers and employers in Mississippi now have greater latitude to conduct alcohol and drug tests on employees following a workplace accident and reduce benefits for workers with pre-existing conditions.Those changes are...
Sep 14 2012 // Alvin Livers lost his dream home when busted floodwalls unleashed a torrent of water that inundated his New Orleans neighborhood during Hurricane Katrina. Seven years later, Livers is one of several homeowners seeking to...
Sep 13 2012 // Testifying before Congress this week, Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Michael Consedine offered a blistering critique of the way the federal government is coordinating the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.In...
Sep 13 2012 // The new federal agency charged with enforcing consumer finance laws is emerging as an ambitious sheriff, taking on companies for deceptive fees and marketing and unmoved by protests that its tactics go too far.In the 14...
Sep 12 2012 // It may be November before the U.S. Congress completes the new $500 billion U.S. farm bill as lawmakers cannot agree on how much to cut support to farmers or food stamps for the poor.“We’re stuck at the...
Sep 11 2012 // Tough new global financial rules will nudge up credit costs, but the slight drag they will place on major economies is worth it to achieve a more stable financial system, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday.In...
Sep 11 2012 // A federal judge has dismissed part of The Velvet Underground’s lawsuit accusing the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts of violating its rights to an iconic banana image used on the rock band’s...
Sep 10 2012 // The U.S. government cut its stake in American International Group Inc. to 19 percent on Monday, making a profit of $12.4 billion on the insurer’s crisis-era bailout and bringing the unpopular rescue closer to its...
Sep 10 2012 // If a store sells ammunition to an underage person who uses the bullets to kill someone, is the retailer responsible?Not necessarily, according to the Mississippi Supreme Court. The court ruled 5-4 this week in favor of...
Sep 10 2012 // A lawsuit claiming U.S. securities regulators were negligent in failing to respond earlier to Allen Stanford’s $7 billion Ponzi scheme can go forward for now, a federal judge ruled in Florida on Friday.U.S. District...
Sep 10 2012 // A federal appeals court has revived an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit against United Airlines Inc., and said U.S. law generally requires employers to reassign disabled workers to vacant jobs for which they...
Sep 10 2012 // The Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 brought the most significant changes to financial regulation in the United States since the regulatory reform that followed the Great Depression. It represented a significant change in the...
Sep 10 2012 // A new Florida law seeks to reduce the regulatory burden on agents and adjusters by consolidating some licenses and revamping the education classes they must take.Among the changes: insurance adjusters and agents operating...
Sep 10 2012 // Florida Governor Rick Scott has reappointed seven judges on the state’s court that handles workers’ compensation claims.Judge W. James Condry II, 54, of Orlando, has been a judge of Compensation Claims for the...
Sep 6 2012 // A National Parks Service (NPS) decision to hike their required insurance liability limits by 1,000 percent has some outfitters and guides, as well as their insurance providers, navigating the halls of Congress.The battle...
Sep 5 2012 // A Delaware law allowing Court of Chancery judges to preside over secret arbitration in business disputes is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled last Thursday.The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by the Delaware Coalition...
Sep 5 2012 // A Florida state senator is demanding that executives of the state-backed property insurer be questioned after expense reports showed that they spent thousands of dollars on travel and related expenses.Florida Senator Mike...
Sep 5 2012 // The American Insurance Association has submitted comments in response to the International Association of Insurance Supervisors’ (IAIS) July 2, 2012 Public Consultation Document entitled “Working Draft of the...
Sep 5 2012 // John M. Huff, director of the Missouri Department of Insurance, has been appointed chair of a national task force focusing on insurance regulation, the department announced.The Solvency Modernization Initiative was created...