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Bankruptcy Judge Permits Insurance Payments for Bed Bath & Beyond Executives
Feb 15 2024 // The directors and officers of Bed Bath & Beyond will have their legal costs related to the retailer’s bankruptcy covered under a Zurich American Insurance policy. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Vincent F. Papalia has...
California Lawmakers Call for Stricter Regulation of Autonomous Vehicles
Feb 14 2024 // California lawmakers and labor unions rallied to call for laws to not allow autonomous trucks without human drivers, amid rising safety concerns after accidents involving self-driving taxis from General Motors and...
Citing Immunity Law, Judge Tosses Body Parts Theft Claims Against Harvard
Feb 13 2024 // A Massachusetts Superior Court judge has dismissed negligence, infliction of emotional distress and other claims against Harvard and the operators of its medical school’s anatomical gift program by relatives of...
EU Lawmakers Ratify Provisional Deal on Artificial Intelligence Rules
Feb 13 2024 // Two key groups of lawmakers at the European Parliament on Tuesday ratified a provisional agreement on landmark artificial intelligence rules ahead of a vote by the legislative assembly in April that will pave the way for...
Judge Orders Elon Musk to Testify in SEC’s Twitter Probe
Feb 12 2024 // A federal judge ordered Elon Musk to testify again in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s probe of his $44 billion takeover of Twitter, giving the regulator and the billionaire a week to agree on a date and...
Texas Supreme Court Rules to Cut Out Attorney’s Fees in First-Party Appraisals
Feb 12 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...
Alabama Lawmakers Push Sweeping Bill That Would Allow Lottery and Casinos
Feb 9 2024 // MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A group of Alabama lawmakers unveiled a sweeping gambling bill Wednesday that could authorize a state lottery and 10 casinos across the conservative Deep South state as some Republicans look to...
Judge Tosses Suit by Estate of Employee Killed in Crash After Mandatory Wine Tasting
Feb 9 2024 // A Connecticut judge has tossed a lawsuit by the estate of a woman who was killed in a crash while driving intoxicated following a mandatory wine tasting at the restaurant that employed her. The estate brought claims of...
German Court Rules Against Intel in Patent Row Over Chips
Feb 8 2024 // A court in Germany has issued an injunction against the sale of some of Intel’s chips, in a patent dispute between the U.S. tech giant and a U.S. rival that filed the complaint. The regional court in Dusseldorf ruled...
Google Calls Out Spyware Firms and Advocates for Tighter Regulation
Feb 7 2024 // Internet giant Google on Feb 6 called out a series of surveillance software companies that it said were enabling the use of dangerous hacking tools, and urged the United States and its allies to do more to rein in the...
New York Proposes Pharmacy Benefit Manager Regulations
Feb 7 2024 // The New York State Department of Financial Services has proposed market conduct regulations to govern pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) operating in the state. The regulations have been developed to implement a law passed...
Trump Civil Fraud Case Judge to Probe Potential Perjury by Ex-CFO
Feb 7 2024 // A New York judge overseeing Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial has asked lawyers in the case for information about possible perjury by the former U.S. president’s onetime finance chief, who is reportedly facing...
North Carolina Lawmakers Say Changes Could Come for State’s High-Risk Driver Pool
Feb 5 2024 // North Carolina has a rather unique setup for auto insurance, allowing insurers to place high-risk drivers into the state Reinsurance Facility, a non-profit, state-created pool. That system came under new scrutiny last...
Judge Rejects Virginia School System’s Request to Toss Student’s Sex Assault Lawsuit
Feb 2 2024 // A federal judge has rejected a request by Virginia’s largest school system to toss out a lawsuit accusing it of indifference to a middle school student’s claims of sexual abuse and harassment. The Fairfax...
Disney Lawsuit Against DeSantis Dismissed by Federal Judge
Feb 1 2024 // (Bloomberg) — Walt Disney Co.’s lawsuit accusing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis of politically retaliating against the company was dismissed by a federal judge. US District Judge Allen Winsor in Tallahassee,...
Murdaugh Denied New Trial After Judge Hears Jury-Tampering Claims
Jan 31 2024 // COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina judge on Monday denied Alex Murdaugh’s bid for a new trial after his defense team accused a clerk of court of tampering with a jury. Judge Jean Toal said she wasn’t sure...
Expanding Bus Fleets Could Improve Risk, Safety for Schools, Kentucky Lawmakers Say
Jan 31 2024 // FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Legislation allowing school districts to expand fleets transporting students to school and home was promoted Monday as a way to fix bus systems hampered by long routes and too few bus...
Appeals Court Rules Insurers Not Obligated to Defend Opioid Distributor McKesson
Jan 31 2024 // The role drug distributor McKesson Corp. had in the opioid crisis was no accident, meaning the company is not entitled to defense costs related to litigation against it. McKesson Corp. appealed a district court’s...
Mississippi Lawmakers Approve Incentives for 2 Large Amazon Data Centers
Jan 30 2024 // JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi lawmakers met in special session last week and quickly approved job training money and other state incentives to support a plan by Amazon Web Services to spend $10 billion to build two...
Are Some Florida Workers’ Comp Judges Bending to the Political Winds on Fees?
Jan 29 2024 // Attorney fees in Florida workers’ compensation cases seem to be part of a story that will never end, and a state appeals court has added new life to the story with decisions that give support to both sides of the...
