All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 1 2021 // A California judge on Thursday said several large counties accusing four drugmakers of fueling an opioid epidemic had presented a “dearth of evidence” during a multi-billion dollar trial to support finding the...
Oct 1 2021 // A federal judge on Thursday rejected Wells Fargo & Co’.s bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it defrauded shareholders about its ability to rebound from five years of scandals over its treatment of customers.The...
Sep 30 2021 // If doctors offer differing opinions on a work injury, a judge must appoint a third physician to help settle the matter, according to Florida’s workers’ compensation rules. And an administrative law judge must...
Sep 30 2021 // The Mississippi state health officer said that he’s concerned about how the Health Department would receive money for its part in licensing and regulating a proposed medical marijuana program.Dr. Thomas Dobbs said...
Sep 30 2021 // A federal judge Tuesday suspended South Carolina from enforcing a rule that banned school districts from requiring masks for students.Parents of disabled children, helped by the American Civil Liberties Union, sued the...
Sep 29 2021 // In a committee hearing on Sept. 28, Texas state senators were furious that natural gas companies won’t have to better prepare their facilities for extreme weather before this winter and rebuked the Texas Railroad...
Sep 28 2021 // Allianz SE is in advanced talks to transfer a block of Swiss life insurance assets to Resolution Life, people with knowledge of the matter said, a move that could free up regulatory capital as Europe’s largest...
Sep 27 2021 // New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) Acting Superintendent Adrienne A. Harris announced new consumer protections in New York’s public adjusters regulation, which will become effective October 8. The...
Sep 24 2021 // The South Dakota Supreme Court, in an opinion released Sept. 23, agreed with a lower court ruling that two people on a motorcycle who were severely injured in a crash with a volunteer firefighting trainee cannot collect...
Sep 24 2021 // A federal judge dismissed some of the biggest unsettled lawsuits over Ohio State’s failure to stop decades-old sexual abuse by now-deceased team doctor Richard Strauss, saying it’s indisputable Strauss abused...
Sep 24 2021 // A federal judge in Kansas City has cleared a restaurant group’s COVID-related business interruption claim for jury trial, finding that an 8th Circuit Court decision that found no coverage was owed in a separate case...
Sep 22 2021 // About 13,000 homes in Louisiana’s Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes were destroyed by Hurricane Ida and displaced parish residents have been sleeping in tents and “using the rubble to build their own sort of...
Sep 20 2021 // The California Legislature voted to guarantee people can call out their bosses publicly in most harassment and discrimination cases.When companies settle complaints filed by their employees, the agreements often include a...
Sep 20 2021 // Many in the insurance space are blind to the fact that the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is lurking in the shadows. A federal agency in the U.S. Department of Treasury responsible for the administration,...
Sep 16 2021 // A federal judge said he’s likely to rule for the now-coed Boy Scouts of America in a trademark lawsuit brought by the Girl Scouts.U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein on Wednesday told lawyers his...
Sep 15 2021 // A U.S. judge in New York on Tuesday temporarily blocked the state from enforcing a requirement that healthcare workers receive COVID-19 vaccines against the wishes of employees with religious objections.U.S. District Judge...
Sep 14 2021 // A federal judge wants PG&E Corp. to explain why it didn’t turn off power sooner to a utility line suspected of causing the second-largest wildfire in California history.At a hearing Monday, U.S. District Judge...
Sep 14 2021 // A U.S. judge on Monday approved up to $7.1 million in bonuses for five executives of Purdue Pharma, the bankrupt maker of OxyContin, at a hearing at which he faced blunt criticism for his handling of the case from a woman...
Sep 13 2021 // Uber drivers are employees entitled to greater workers’ rights under local labor laws, a Dutch court ruled on Monday, handing a setback to the U.S. company’s European business model.It was another court victory...
Sep 13 2021 // A judge has ruled that a trucking company’s use of a strength test disadvantages women, violates federal law, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).The EEOC said Stan Koch & Sons...