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California Fines Online Benefits Firm Zenefits $7M Over Unlicensed Employees
Nov 28 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones today levied $7 million in penalties against online benefits broker Zenefits for multiple license violations. Zenefits was charged with allowing unlicensed employees to transact...
Lawmaker in Montana Files Wrongful Discharge Lawsuit against His Company
Nov 28 2016 // A Republican state lawmaker has filed a wrongful discharge lawsuit alleging his refusal to support certain bills during the 2015 Legislature got him fired from a sales job he’d held for more than 15 years. Rep. Randy...
Kentucky Judge Allows Bevin to Appoint Workers’ Comp Judges
Nov 28 2016 // A Kentucky judge has cleared the way for Republican Gov. Matt Bevin to appoint six administrative law judges to help ease a backlog of workers’ compensation cases. The ruling by Franklin County Circuit Judge Phillip...
Unions, Gig-Economy Firms Prepare for New York Benefits Battle
Nov 28 2016 // Faced with a barrage of lawsuits from workers demanding benefits and recognition as employees, some companies in the fast-growing ‘gig economy’ are looking to settle the issues through legislation. Joseph...
Smartphone Makers Reject Obama Call for Restrictions to Curb Distracted Driving
Nov 28 2016 // U.S. highway safety officials called on smartphone makers to add features that would keep motorists from using functions linked to a surge in deaths due to distracted driving, a proposal that drew immediate opposition from...
Judge Halts Florida’s 14.5% Workers’ Compensation Hike Set for Dec. 1
Nov 27 2016 // A Florida circuit judge has blocked a 14.5 percent workers’ compensation rate increase due to go into effect Dec. 1 after finding that the insurers’ rating organization and state officials did not comply with...
Judge Blocks Obama’s Overtime Pay Raise for White Collar Workers
Nov 23 2016 // An Obama administration policy that would have given more white-collar workers overtime starting Dec. 1 was blocked nationwide by a federal judge in Texas. The decision Tuesday is a victory for 21 states and dozens of...
Atlanta Judge Awards $36M in Damages in Bobbi Kristina Death Case
Nov 23 2016 // A judge in Atlanta ordered Bobbi Kristina Brown’s partner, Nick Gordon, to pay $36 million in a wrongful death case, her estate’s lawyers said Nov 17. Brown, the daughter of singers Whitney Houston and Bobby...
Dozens of Obama Administration Financial Rules that Republicans May Kill
Nov 22 2016 // In recent days Republican Congressional leaders have taken several opportunities to warn Obama Administration regulators not to finish any more rulemakings, but some agency heads, such as U.S. Securities and Exchange...
Rejecting Science, Texas Still Denies Fracking Link to Quakes
Nov 22 2016 // A white Chevy Suburban with “Railroad Commission of Texas” emblazoned on its side rolled north on Interstate 35. Behind the wheel sat Milton Rister, the commission’s director. Trim and balding, Rister was...
Fitch Sees Large Insurers Gaining from Trump Deregulation
Nov 22 2016 // Broad financial industry deregulation under the Trump administration would ease regulatory burdens for large U.S. insurance companies while macroeconomic trends resulting from shifting global and economic policies could...
Q&A: Deloitte Insurance Expert Discusses Hurricane Season and Flood Insurance
Nov 22 2016 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Although Atlantic hurricane season ends in November, cleanup from any damage seen on the East Coast could last beyond the end of the season. Some coastal areas, such as Virginia Beach, were...
Exxon Climate Judge Orders ‘Unprecedented’ Questioning
Nov 21 2016 // A federal judge in Texas is giving Exxon Mobil Corp. an unprecedented chance to question a state law-enforcement officer who is investigating whether the energy company hid damaging data about climate change from...
Connecticut Insurance Department Launches Online Pay Portal
Nov 21 2016 // The Connecticut Insurance Department has issued a online pay portal to process financial transactions for licensees that conduct business daily within the department, Insurance Commissioner Katharine L. Wade announced. The...
Advent Claims Launches Regulatory Compliant Platform for MGAs, Coverholders
Nov 21 2016 // Advent Claims, a division of Advent Insurance Management with claims operations in the US, UK, Canada and Australia, has launched a proprietary web-based claims management system for managing general agents (MGAs) and...
How Tech Can Turn the Tide of Flood Insurance
Nov 21 2016 // As residents of coastal Louisiana, New York and New Jersey have discovered, a house with a sea view can carry a serious and soggy downside. In terms of storms and their severity, a building’s location has never...
AG Defends California Insurance Commissioner’s Regulatory Move
Nov 21 2016 // The California Supreme Court heard oral arguments this month, during which the Attorney General’s office in a suit filed by the insurance industry defended a regulatory move by Insurance Dave Jones. The regulation...
New York Attorney General Concerned Trump May Gut Anti-Fraud Law
Nov 18 2016 // New York’s top law enforcement official said he does not want U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s administration to “eviscerate” the state’s anti-fraud law that has dropped a hammer on Wall...
Fintech Firms Alibaba, Tencent Support China’s New Cyber Law Despite Foreign Opposition
Nov 18 2016 // China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. rallied behind Beijing’s recently imposed cyber security law on Thursday, following criticism of it from overseas technology rivals. The...
Virginia Hemp Crop Harvested for 1st Time in Decades
Nov 18 2016 // Among the many crops grown on Glenn Rodes’ family farm in Rockingham County, this summer was one that has not been cultivated in Virginia for decades but that may have a chance at a comeback now, thanks to a slow...
