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Texas Ridesharing Bill Signed into Law
Jun 19 2017 // A bill that preempts local regulations for ridesharing companies in Texas and replaces them with statewide standards has been signed by Gov. Greg Abbott. HB 100, sponsored in the Senate by Georgetown Sen. Charles...
New York Approves Workers’ Comp Renewal Notice Legislation
Jun 16 2017 // Final legislation has been approved in New York that aims to enable insurance agents to better serve workers’ compensation clients if signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo. The legislation was developed by the...
House Panel Gets Down to Business on Flood Insurance Proposals
Jun 15 2017 // House lawmakers are weighing seven proposals to renew and reform the federal flood insurance program, an area where there is a good amount of bipartisan agreement that something should be done and even on what to do. The...
San Francisco Approves Requirement for Clean Breastfeeding Space for Workers
Jun 15 2017 // San Francisco supervisors approved legislation that requires employers to provide new mothers a clean and private space to pump their milk, adding to the board’s long history of trying to make the city more equitable...
Massachusetts Marijuana Proposal Seeks Higher Taxes, More Local Control
Jun 15 2017 // Lawmakers reviewing the state’s new recreational marijuana law plan to recommend sharply higher taxes and more control for city and town officials over retail pot shops in their communities, according to a copy of a...
AIG ‘Smart’ Policy Uses Blockchain to Manage International Coverage for Bank
Jun 15 2017 // American International Group Inc. and Standard Chartered Bank plc announced they have successfully piloted what they say is the first multinational, “smart contract” based insurance policy using blockchain, a...
Florida Court Rules Property Insurer Liable for Shortfall in Policy Benefits Promised by Agent
Jun 15 2017 // A Florida state Court of Appeal reversed the dismissal of a claim for negligent procurement of property insurance, because, when placing the coverage, the insurer’s agent failed to account for a reduction in...
Senators in Drive to Remove Regulatory Roadblocks for Driverless Cars
Jun 14 2017 // A bipartisan trio of U.S. senators said on Tuesday they planned to introduce legislation to remove regulatory roadblocks to the introduction of self-driving cars, including sorting out conflicts between state and federal...
Chairman Wu of China’s Anbang Insurance ‘Unable to Fulfill Duties’
Jun 14 2017 // Anbang Insurance Group, one of China’s most aggressive buyers of overseas assets, said on Wednesday its chairman was temporarily unable to fulfill his duties, just over a week after denying reports he had been barred...
Judge Tosses Fines Against Tesoro in Deadly Washington Refinery Blast
Jun 13 2017 // A Washington state administrative judge threw out $2.4 million in fines levied against refiner Tesoro Corp. for a 2010 explosion that claimed the lives of seven workers at the company’s Anacortes, Washington,...
Shipping Losses Fall to Lowest in 10 Years as Technology Drives Safety
Jun 13 2017 // Large shipping losses have declined by 50 percent over the past decade and last year saw the lowest number of losses in the past 10 years. The favorable loss trend has been largely driven by improved safety, according to...
Protectionism, Cloud Accumulation, Water Stress Among 20 Emerging Risks Facing Insurance Industry: Swiss Re
Jun 13 2017 // Reduced market access, regulatory fragmentation, the return of inflation and cloud risk accumulation pose the largest challenges with the highest downside risk potential in the short term, according to experts at Swiss...
Analysis: Arkansans May See Competing Tort Reform Measures on Ballot
Jun 12 2017 // An effort to limit civil damages in lawsuits and give the Arkansas Legislature control over court rules was already shaping up to be one of the biggest and expensive campaigns in next year’s election. A competing...
Florida Supreme Court Rules Medical Malpractice Award Caps Unconstitutional
Jun 12 2017 // Caps on how much money patients injured by a doctor’s mistakes can receive were declared unconstitutional by the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday, a decision that strikes down one of former Gov. Jeb Bush’s...
Judge Upholds $1.5M Award to North Carolina Whistleblower
Jun 12 2017 // A federal judge has upheld a jury’s $1.5 million award to a North Carolina fire investigator who said she was fired after complaining about the safety of construction work at an office building. The Charlotte...
N.C. Lawmakers Again Scuttle Bill to Reform Rate Bureau
Jun 11 2017 // Most of the auto insurance industry has for several years been trying to convince North Carolina’s lawmakers to eliminate the last vestiges of the once-common “rate bureau” system, under which the...
Court Rules Neighbors Can Sue Colorado Pot Grower over Stink
Jun 9 2017 // A Colorado pot farm’s neighbor can sue them for smells and other nuisances that could harm their property values, a federal appeals court ruled. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling revives a lawsuit between...
House Passes Dodd-Frank Replacement on Party Line Vote
Jun 9 2017 // Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to replace the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law, a move that is expected to die in the Senate but open the door to revamping or eliminating...
Rules for Ride-Hailing Services Head to Connecticut Governor’s Desk
Jun 9 2017 // Legislation creating rules for ride-hailing services for the first time in Connecticut is heading to the governor. After three years of the debate, the bill finally passed the Senate on a 28-8 vote late Tuesday. It...
Autonomous Cargo Ships Expected to Revolutionize (Disrupt) Shipping
Jun 8 2017 // BHP Billiton Ltd., the world’s biggest mining company, is studying the introduction of giant, automated cargo ships to carry everything from iron ore to coal as part of a strategic shift that may disrupt the $334...
