All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 16 2022 // The state cannot be held liable for injuries sustained in a parking lot that is regularly used by people accessing a public building, the Maine Supreme Court has ruled.On March 15, in Klein v. University of Maine System,...
Mar 14 2022 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) settled with Allied BioScience, Inc. (Allied BioScience) over alleged violations of federal pesticide regulations with the company’s SurfaceWise2 product, a residual...
Mar 14 2022 // Maine is looking to enact tougher regulations about corporate collection of biometric data.The proposal before the Maine Legislature would require companies to get consent before they collect biometric information such as...
Mar 14 2022 // The death knell sounded for the 2022 Florida Legislative session Friday with no major property insurance reform bills passed. But the ghosts of rising premiums and failing insurers will continue to haunt the state, and...
Mar 14 2022 // A federal judge has again ruled against a northern Virginia school system that he found guilty of discriminating against Asian American students when it overhauled its admissions policies at a highly selective high...
Mar 11 2022 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon, Senate Insurance Committee Chair Kirk Talbot, and House Insurance Committee Chair Mike Huval introduced six bills on March 10 that form a catastrophe reform legislative package...
Mar 11 2022 // Republicans in the Oklahoma House on March 7 unveiled a package of new restrictions on the state’s booming medical marijuana industry, designed to crack down on illegal growers who sell cannabis on the black...
Mar 10 2022 // The judge overseeing Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy on Wednesday approved a $6 billion opioid settlement funded by its Sackler family owners, overruling objections from the Department of Justice and 20 states that...
Mar 10 2022 // A federal appeals court ruled that a Las Vegas police detective can be sued for arresting protesters who chalked anti-police slogans on the sidewalk in front of the police station.Three activists arrested in 2013 broke an...
Mar 9 2022 // Tesla Inc. defended the safety benefits of its advanced driver assistance system Autopilot and its Full Self-Driving (FSD) capability but acknowledged they require “constant monitoring and attention of the...
Mar 9 2022 // An archaic Rhode Island law that says prison inmates serving life sentences are considered civilly dead in terms of their civil rights is unconstitutional, the state Supreme Court ruled in a landmark decision released...
Mar 8 2022 // A judge has given preliminary approval to a settlement agreement that would allocate $83 million to individual owners of condominium units at the collapsed Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida. It’s the latest...
Mar 8 2022 // A federal judge has dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a Utah man who was shot at nearly 30 times and killed as he ran away from Salt Lake City police in 2020.U.S. District Judge David Barlow ruled...
Mar 7 2022 // Black retired football players who were denied payments for dementia in the NFL’s $1 billion concussion settlement can seek to be retested or have their claims rescored to eliminate racial bias in the testing and...
Mar 7 2022 // Minnesota farmers and ranchers still reeling from last summer’s drought are asking the Legislature for urgency on relief, though lawmakers on either side of the aisle have yet to agree on what a final package should...
Mar 7 2022 // Jaye Sanford, a 52-year-old mother of two, was driving home in suburban Atlanta on Nov. 21 when a man in a Dodge Challenger muscle car who was allegedly street racing crashed into her head-on, killing her.She is one of the...
Mar 4 2022 // The Russian invasion of Ukraine has increased the risk of cyberattacks and potential claim costs for property/casualty (P/C) insurers globally that offer cyber coverage, the majority of which is underwritten in North...
Mar 4 2022 // A judge has rejected an effort by New York’s attorney general to put the National Rifle Association out of business, but will allow her lawsuit accusing top executives of illegally diverting tens of millions of...
Mar 4 2022 // Maryland lawmakers highlighted a package of measures Wednesday to tighten cybersecurity in the state.Maryland House Speaker Adrienne Jones noted that Baltimore County was one of about 50 school systems across the nation...
Mar 3 2022 // A new advocate group in New York that counts the American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA) as a member is looking to crack down on the practice of litigation funding.The Consumers for Fair Legal Funding...