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Relief But Questions on Agents’ Duties to Insureds After Florida Court Ruling
Jan 7 2026 // Florida insurance agents and brokers can breathe at least a little easier after a state appeals court effectively reversed hefty damages in a case that had threatened to expand agents’ duties to insureds as well as...
Judge Rejects Amazon’s Bid to Dismiss Price Gouging Lawsuit
Jan 6 2026 // A U.S. judge on Monday rejected Amazon.com’s bid to dismiss a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing the online retailer of price gouging during the COVID-19 pandemic. U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik in Seattle,...
Virginia High Court Rules Wage Theft Law Does Not Cover Commissions
Jan 6 2026 // The Virginia wage theft statute does not extend to protect employee commissions, the state Supreme Court has ruled. The Virgibia Supreme Court wrote that, in the plain meaning, the term “wages” ordinarily is...
AI Regulation Battle Looms in California Despite Trump Threats
Jan 5 2026 // This year, many of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence companies face a pitched battle over government regulation on their home turf—California. And even President Donald Trump’s threat to...
Litigation Funding, Other New Laws in SE States Could Impact Liability Insurance
Jan 2 2026 // New laws in Southeastern states took effect this week, impacting several aspects of property and casualty insurance. In Georgia, Senate Bill 69 puts new restrictions on third-party litigation financing, a lawsuit funding...
Hawaii Hopes New Laws Will Quiet Illegal Fireworks After Deadly New Year’s Eve Blast
Dec 31 2025 // Mike Lambert heard fewer illegal fireworks exploding in his suburban Honolulu neighborhood in the months after a chain of blasts at a house party last New Year’s Eve led to the deaths of six people, including a...
New Laws Impacting California Drivers in 2026
Dec 31 2025 // New laws affecting California drivers set to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2026, include stricter laws for drunk driving, speeding in school zones and automated traffic camera enforcement. The California Department of Motor...
Howden US Tells Judge Brown & Brown Employees Fled Due to ‘Mistreatment’
Dec 30 2025 // In a Christmas court filing, Howden US filed its response to a request by rival Brown & Brown for a temporary restraining order, saying the recent exodus of Brown & Brown employees to Howden US was “caused...
Judge Green Lights New York’s Driver’s License Law, Rejecting Trump Challenge
Dec 29 2025 // A federal judge gave a green light Tuesday to New York’s so-called Green Light Law, rejecting the Trump administration’s bid to stop the state from giving people driver’s licenses without having them...
Texas Lawmakers Fight Against Federal Interference in State AI Regulations
Dec 22 2025 // An executive order by President Donald Trump may bring Texas into conflict with the federal government over a new state law regulating the use of artificial intelligence. Trump signed an executive order last week that...
Court Ruling Could Help Shed Light on Owners of Litigation Funders, Medical Clinics
Dec 22 2025 // A federal appeals court ruling last week could potentially help insurers find out who is truly behind litigation financing and medical clinics that are said to participate in auto accidents and insurance fraud. But more...
What to Know About Trump’s Executive Order to Curtail State AI Regulations
Dec 18 2025 // President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday pressuring states not to regulate artificial intelligence. Trump and some Republicans argue that the limited regulations already enacted by states, and others that...
NY Times Asks Judge to Dismiss Trump’s ‘Implausible’ Defamation Suit
Dec 18 2025 // The New York Times asked a judge to once again dismiss President Donald Trump’s $15 billion defamation lawsuit, arguing the complaint is based on “implausible allegations” that cannot overcome First...
Oklahoma Legislation Aims to Address Consumer Protections, Insurance Premiums
Dec 16 2025 // Last week, the Oklahoma Insurance Department (OID) announced a comprehensive package of 2026 legislative policy proposals that it said are designed to provide Oklahomans with stronger consumer protections, enhanced...
State Insurance Legislators ‘Greatly Disturbed’ by Trump AI Regulation Order
Dec 15 2025 // The National Council of Insurance Legislators have come out against President Donald Trump’s executive order last week, seen as a hinderance to state regulation of artificial intelligence. NCOIL officers in a...
Trump Signs Order Seeking to Limit State-Level AI Regulation
Dec 12 2025 // President Donald Trump signed an order aimed at thwarting state-level regulation of artificial intelligence through lawsuits and funding cuts, handing a win to tech industry leaders who’ve pressed for preemption of...
Big ‘I’ CEO Symington Named Among Top Lobbyists for 2025
Dec 12 2025 // The Hill, a prominent Washington, D.C.-based political newspaper, named Charles Symington, president and CEO of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (Big “I”), among the top trade...
Judge Orders Trump to End National Guard Troop Deployment in LA
Dec 11 2025 // The Trump administration must stop deploying the California National Guard in Los Angeles and return control of the troops to the state, a federal judge ordered Wednesday in an emphatic ruling. U.S. District Judge Charles...
Massachusetts Asks Judge to Block Kalshi From Operating Sports-Prediction Market
Dec 10 2025 // addictioA Massachusetts judge on Tuesday questioned whether prediction-markets operator Kalshi could legally offer the state’s residents the ability to place financial bets on something as “trivial” as...
Trump Ban on Wind Energy Projects Ruled Illegal by Federal Judge
Dec 9 2025 // Less than a year after President Donald Trump banned new wind projects, a federal judge ruled the president’s executive order was illegal. US District Judge Patti Saris said Monday the order is “arbitrary and...
