All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 17 2010 // Wall Street critic Elizabeth Warren said Friday she accepted the job of setting up a consumer financial protection agency for U.S. President Barack Obama and declared that the time for financial “tricks and...
Sep 16 2010 // The tragic gas pipeline explosion in a San Francisco suburb has shed light on a problem usually kept underground: Communities have expanded over pipes built decades earlier when no one lived there.Utilities have been under...
Sep 15 2010 // A Florida judge said Tuesday he would hear arguments Dec. 16 on a lawsuit by 20 U.S. states seeking to block President Barack Obama’s overhaul of the U.S. health care system.U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, who is...
Sep 13 2010 // A federal judge has ruled that a social services agency that wanted to open a group home for recovering drug addicts in Framingham can move forward with its lawsuit against the town.Judge Douglas Woodlock on Thursday...
Sep 13 2010 // The growing complexity of reinsurance markets in recent years has increased demands on reinsurance buyers and radically transformed the industry, says Towers Watson.Changes such as complex market data, Solvency II...
Sep 9 2010 // Global reinsurance companies are reconsidering their choices of corporate domicile, according to a new report from Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, titled “Choosing A Domicile Remains A Hot Topic For...
Sep 6 2010 // Former Houston Mayor Bill White, a Democrat campaigning to replace Repub-lican Rick Perry as governor of Texas, says homeowners insurance rates in Texas are too high and should be more regulated.White said Texans pay an...
Sep 3 2010 // Medical costs per workers’ compensation claim in Illinois showed slower growth in 2007 following implementation of the medical fee schedule in 2006, according to a study from the Workers Compensation Research...
Sep 1 2010 // New powers from the financial reform law will help avoid a repeat of 2008’s frenzied sale of Wachovia and the wreckage that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers, U.S. regulators said Wednesday.A commission...
Sep 1 2010 // A federal judge says a suburban Philadelphia school district embroiled in a laptop spying scandal must pay a family’s lawyer about $260,000.Lower Merion School District was ordered Monday to pay attorney Mark...
Aug 31 2010 // When companies go out of business, their leaders often blame something other than their own performance for the failure. Lehman Bros.’s CEO Richard Fuld said his immense compensation package had nothing to do with...
Aug 31 2010 // The use of compound drugs, medical foods, and so-called convenience packs that combine prescription drugs and medical foods, increased dramatically in the second quarter of 2007 — driving up costs in the...
Aug 30 2010 // A Manhattan federal judge refused to dismiss shareholder lawsuits against Bank of America Corp and various executives and directors over the purchase of Merrill Lynch & Co. during the 2008 financial crisis and...
Aug 27 2010 // A federal court forfeiture hearing has been postponed in the case of a former Pennsylvania Superior Court judge convicted of insurance fraud, because the judge’s wife has hired a new attorney to try to prevent their...
Aug 27 2010 // A Christians-only health care plan provides a “contract for insurance” and doesn’t qualify for exemption from state regulations as a religious publication, the Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled in a...
Aug 25 2010 // The White House oil spill commission Wednesday will probe U.S. offshore drilling policies and consider pushing the oil industry to accept a self-governing body to help oversee tough safety standards.With a focus on...
Aug 24 2010 // Hundreds of southern West Virginia residents who claim Massey Energy Co. poisoned their wells and made them sick by pumping coal slurry underground will get their day in court next year _ and a chance to settle the case...
Aug 23 2010 // Starting this month, the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation is going to begin surveying Florida property insurers about their experience with sinkhole claims, in an effort to get to the bottom of the simmering...
Aug 23 2010 // A new regulation that makes it harder for health insurance companies to drop individual policyholders in California is being challenged in court by an industry trade group.The California Department of Insurance’s new...
Aug 23 2010 // A proposed workers’ compensation overhaul hammered out by business and labor is going to Montana’s full Legislature, despite stiff opposition from the equally powerful trial lawyers and doctors groups.A...