All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 7 2025 // With just two days left in South Carolina’s 2025 legislative session, House and Senate negotiators appear to have reached a compromise on a plan to ease liquor liability costs for struggling bars and...
May 5 2025 // A federal judge on said she will allow expert testimony that formula made by Abbott Laboratories and Reckitt Benckiser subsidiary Mead Johnson for premature babies can cause a fatal intestinal illness, as the companies...
May 5 2025 // With President Donald Trump now in his second term, several changes to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) are anticipated based on his previous administration’s approach, current policy signals,...
May 2 2025 // Hawaii lawmakers this week passed a bill intended to help shore up Hawaiian Electric Co.’s credit rating despite strong opposition from House and Senate committee chairs who helped vet the measure.The bill would...
May 2 2025 // Voters in Alaska, Missouri and Nebraska were asked last year whether they wanted to require employers to provide paid sick leave to their workers. They overwhelmingly said yes.Now some lawmakers in each of those states are...
May 2 2025 // Adult children and parents of young adults who died under medical care will soon be able to recover punitive and pain-and-suffering damages in medical malpractice lawsuits if Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs a bill into...
May 2 2025 // Apple must pay a U.S. patent holder $502 million for the use of 4G patents in devices including iPhones and iPads, London’s Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday, in the latest stage of a long-running legal...
May 1 2025 // MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge told attorneys for the state of Florida on Tuesday that an order freezing the enforcement of a new state immigration law absolutely applies to all of the state’s local law enforcement...
May 1 2025 // The regulatory landscape in the Asia-Pacific region is rapidly evolving, influencing insurers’ risk management and capital adequacy. Australia and Malaysia are two examples of markets where recent regulatory...
Apr 28 2025 // The new head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday said that the agency has stifled innovation for the cryptocurrency sector by fostering “regulatory uncertainty” in prior years.“Market...
Apr 25 2025 // DoorDash Inc. asked a California judge to dismiss Uber Technologies Inc.’s anticompetition lawsuit against it, arguing that Uber is using an “ill-fitting” state law to justify its claims.DoorDash, which...
Apr 25 2025 // A federal judge on Wednesday found the state of North Dakota entitled to nearly $28 million for responding to protests of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in 2016 and 2017 — a win for the state in its multiyear effort to...
Apr 25 2025 // It’s not often that applause breaks out in the audience after a vote at the Hawaiʻi Legislature, but that one afternoon this week.The measure was House Bill 1001, and the subject was settling claims related to the...
Apr 25 2025 // The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission Names Two New Deputy CommissionersThe Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission (VWCC) has named two new deputy commissioners, Frederick T. Schubert II and...
Apr 24 2025 // TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Student survivors of last week’s deadly shooting at Florida State University urged state legislators Tuesday to block an effort to reverse a law passed after the 2018 Parkland school...
Apr 23 2025 // Andrew Hill, who studied and farmed hemp in California before it was legal in Texas, was a keynote speaker at the state’s first-ever agricultural hemp expo in Dallas in 2019. Amid considerable hype and excitement...
Apr 23 2025 // Three senior Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday urged the Federal Aviation Administration to address significant safety issues at Reagan Washington National Airport and maintain reduced air traffic after a series of troubling...
Apr 23 2025 // California lawmakers are once again turning their attention to consumer privacy—this time with a laser focus on the insurance sector.At a moment when insurance companies are already navigating a minefield of data privacy...
Apr 21 2025 // In her 2025 State of the State, Gov. Kathy Hochul outlined several proposals aimed at improving access to medical care within the New York State Workers’ Compensation system. These initiatives, detailed in her...
Apr 18 2025 // A federal judge on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction that prevents the U.S. Department of Labor from requiring government contractors and grant recipients to certify they do not operate any diversity, equity and...