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Georgia Lawmakers Approve End to Direct-Action Suits Against Trucking Insurers

Mar 19 2024 // A bill that would end direct-action lawsuits against trucking insurers is rolling toward the governor’s desk after it was approved by the full House of Representatives on Monday.Senate Bill 426, heralded as a way to...

Panel of EU Lawmakers Backs Watered Down Supply Chain Audit Law

Mar 19 2024 // A panel of lawmakers in the European Parliament on Tuesday backed a draft law requiring large companies in the bloc to check if their supply chains use forced labor or cause environmental damage.The rules, known as the...

Judge’s Ruling on Girl’s Death Creates Path for Wrongful Death Claim

Mar 14 2024 // A judge has ruled that a 5-year-old New Hampshire girl missing since 2019 is legally dead and her mother can become administrator of her estate, just weeks after the child’s father was convicted of killing...

PE Firm Nordic Capital Weighs Sale of Regulatory Tech Firm Regnology: Sources

Mar 13 2024 // Nordic Capital is weighing a sale of German regulatory software firm Regnology, in a deal which could value the business at up to 3 billion euros ($3.27 billion), four people familiar with the matter told Reuters.The...

Oxendine’s Georgia Fraud Trial Must Finally Start April 15, Federal Judge Says

Mar 13 2024 // A former Georgia insurance commissioners’ efforts to dismiss insurance fraud and money laundering charges against him have run their course. John Oxendine must face trial starting April 15, a federal judge has...

California Insurance Co. Says Judge’s Tentative Order Won’t Stop CDI Overreach

Mar 11 2024 // A California court’s tentative decision in a dispute between the California Department of Insurance and the California Insurance Company “failed to undo the unprecedented use of the CDI’s conservation...

Judge Blocks NLRB Rule on Contract and Franchise Workers

Mar 11 2024 // A federal judge in Texas on Friday struck down a U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rule that would treat many companies as employers of certain contract and franchise workers and require them to bargain with...

Florida Lawmakers Approve Surplus Takeouts but Stop Short on Nonrenewal Limits

Mar 11 2024 // A number of property insurance-related bills were introduced in the Florida Legislature this year – from a fundamental change to the Citizens Property Insurance Corp. coverage model to further limiting policy...

New York Police Target Critics, Including Judges and Journalists, Using Social Media

Mar 11 2024 // The first “NYPD: Most Wanted” video was meant to be intimidating.Over a pounding soundtrack, the montage cuts among stock images and body-camera footage of actual police raids. A fake gun discharges. Real...

Alabama Governor Signs Legislation Protecting IVF Providers from Legal Liability

Mar 8 2024 // MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Facing pressure to get in vitro fertilization services restarted in the state, Alabama’s governor swiftly signed legislation into law Wednesday shielding doctors from potential legal...

Financial Services Firms Should Be Banned From Misusing Gag Orders: UK Lawmakers

Mar 8 2024 // Finance firms in Britain should be banned from misusing non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to silence victims of sexual harassment and abuse, lawmakers said on Friday, calling for an end to an era of impunity for predators...

US Judge Says Google Must Face Some Advertisers’ Antitrust Claims, Dismisses Others

Mar 4 2024 // Alphabet’s Google must face advertisers’ proposed class action lawsuit claiming that it monopolizes the ad exchange market, a U.S. judge ruled on Friday.But U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel dismissed some other...

Texas Court Rules to Cut Attorney’s Fees in First-Party Appraisals

Mar 4 2024 // The Texas Supreme Court recently ruled that when an insurance company pays an appraisal award plus any statutory interest in a weather-related first-party property case, there is no liability for attorney’s fees.The...

EU Lawmakers ‘Outraged’ After States Block Landmark ESG Law

Feb 29 2024 // A European Union law designed to clean up corporate supply chains has been derailed by the bloc’s biggest member states, forcing negotiators back to the drawing board on one of the most consequential pieces of ESG...

IVF Clinic Insurance Affected by Ruling as Alabama Lawmakers Look for a Fix

Feb 27 2024 // MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Lawmakers began scrambling for ways to protect Alabama in vitro fertilization services after multiple providers paused treatment in the wake of a state Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos...

EU Lawmakers Approve Tougher Penalties for Environmental Crimes

Feb 27 2024 // The European Parliament on Tuesday approved tougher penalties for environmental crimes such as illegal timber trade, with offenses punishable by up to 10 years in prison and company directors prosecuted for corporate...

Trump Asks Judge to Suspend $83M Defamation Verdict, Arguing It Won’t Stand

Feb 26 2024 // Donald Trump’s lawyers asked a New York judge Friday to suspend an $83.3 million defamation verdict against the former president, saying there was a “strong probability” that it would be reduced on...

Louisiana Lawmakers Push for Tougher Penalties in Response to Surge in Carjackings

Feb 22 2024 // BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — In the moments before Linda Frickey was dragged to her death during a fatal carjacking, the 73-year-old had been sitting in her parked vehicle in New Orleans when she was surrounded by four...

‘AI Godfather’, Others Urge More Deepfake Regulation in Open Letter

Feb 21 2024 // Artificial intelligence experts and industry executives, including one of the technology’s trailblazers Yoshua Bengio, have signed an open letter calling for more regulation around the creation of deepfakes, citing...

Long-Serving Delaware Chancery Court Judge to Retire at Year’s End

Feb 21 2024 // Delaware’s nationally important Court of Chancery, which has come under criticism from Elon Musk this month, is losing its second-longest-serving judge.Sam Glasscock, who has served on the go-to venue for U.S....