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Judge Strikes Down N.Y. Town’s Day Laborer Law as Unconstitutional
Sep 11 2015 // A federal judge has struck down as unconstitutional a suburban New York town’s law banning day laborers from soliciting for work on public sidewalks, declaring its broad application could affect children selling...
North Carolina Governor Approves Ridesharing Regulations
Sep 10 2015 // Gov. Pat McCrory has signed into law state regulations for ridesharing companies where potential customers use smartphone apps to hail drivers and complete cashless transactions. McCrory signed the legislation Sept. 4 at...
Republicans’ Suit Against Obamacare Insurer Reimbursements Advances
Sep 9 2015 // Congressional Republicans were allowed by a judge to pursue their lawsuit accusing the Obama administration of violating the Constitution by spending money on the president’s signature legislative achievement, the...
California Climate Change Bills Unlikely to See Easy Passage
Sep 9 2015 // California lawmakers negotiated frantically behind the scenes on Tuesday over the fate of several proposals to dramatically reduce the state’s use of fossil fuels and slash the amount of greenhouse gases that legally...
Florida Approves Citizens’ 2016 Rates With Minor Adjustments
Sep 9 2015 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has approved a slate of 2016 property insurance rates for Citizens Property Insurance Corp. In an order signed September 8 by Florida Commissioner Kevin McCarty, FLOIR set the...
North Carolina Insurance Head Urges Lawmakers Not to Cut Driver’s Ed Funding
Sep 8 2015 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has spoken out against a proposal by state lawmakers to eliminate funding for driver education through public high schools as a way to help close a deficit in the state...
Xuber Survey Finds London Insurance Execs Fear ‘Brexit’
Sep 8 2015 // Xuber, Xchanging’s insurance software business, has published a survey, which concludes that almost three-quarters (71 percent) of insurance executives believe a UK exit from the European Union would be bad for...
Litigation Relief Needed for TWIA Depop Program to Work, Lawmakers Say
Sep 7 2015 // A new law that became effective Sept. 1 in Texas will give the state’s property insurer of last resort for wind and hail along the coast more leeway in its plan to reduce overall exposure by incenting private...
Hurricane Katrina: Every Number Tells a Story
Sep 7 2015 // In a 25-year span leading up to 2005, homeowners insurers in Louisiana wrote a total of $13 billion in homeowners insurance premium, from which they earned $1 billion in profit, according to the chief actuary at the state...
10 Drivers of Surplus Lines Growth
Sep 7 2015 // Times are good for surplus lines professionals. The surplus lines industry reached new heights in 2014, growing direct premium written (DPW) in 2014 to $40.2 billion – the highest point in history, reports A.M....
Lloyd’s and its Syndicates 2015 – Adapting to Changing Times
Sep 7 2015 // If one word could describe Lloyd’s of London, it would be “change.” There are very few business enterprises that have stayed in business as long as Lloyd’s – 327 years. It has survived wars,...
Judge OKs $415M Settlement in Worker Suit Against Silicon Valley Giants
Sep 4 2015 // A U.S. judge has granted final approval to a $415 million settlement that ends a high profile lawsuit in which workers accused Apple, Google and two other Silicon Valley companies of conspiring to hold down salaries. The...
Oregon Court Rules Fraternity Can Be Sued by Rape Victim
Sep 4 2015 // The Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that an Oregon State University fraternity can be held liable for failing to shield a rape victim from harm. The Oregonian reported that the court ruled Wednesday that the woman can go...
North Carolina Lawmakers Try to Expand Number of Erosion-Controlling Structures
Sep 4 2015 // Some legislators are once again trying to expand the number of certain erosion-controlling structures allowed by law along the North Carolina coast. This time, they’re trying to do it through the state...
Tennessee Supreme Court Rules for Insurer in Assignment of Benefits Case
Sep 3 2015 // The Tennessee Supreme Court has affirmed a Court of Appeals decision that a chiropractic patient’s assignment of benefits was not an effective assignment of his rights to insurance proceeds from a third party’s...
Dutch Court Rules Gas Producer NAM Must Compensate Quake Zone Homeowners
Sep 2 2015 // A Dutch court ruled on Wednesday that gas producer NAM must compensate homeowners for falls in the value of their properties due to earthquakes linked to gas production at the Groningen field in the north of the...
NAMIC Hires Paolino as State Affairs Director for Northeast Region
Aug 31 2015 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) hired Cate Paolino as director of state affairs for the Northeast region. Paolino is based in Foxboro, Massachusetts, and will represent NAMIC member company...
North Carolina Lawmakers Send Ridesharing Regulations to Governor
Aug 31 2015 // The North Carolina legislature gave its final OK to state regulations August 27 for ridesharing companies such as Uber, Lyft and Sidecar, a move supporters say will protect consumers and drivers of the mobile phone-based...
Washington Judge Sets Limits in Civil Case over Deadly Oso Mudslide
Aug 28 2015 // A King County Superior Court judge is considering which claims can be brought in a civil trial that will explore whether anyone should be held responsible for the deadly Oso, Wash. mudslide. The Daily Herald reported that...
California Lawmakers Equal Pay Law Said to be Toughest in U.S.
Aug 28 2015 // California lawmakers approved legislation mandating equal pay for women in what the bill’s author called the toughest such law in the U.S. The Assembly voted 66-2 for the measure requiring employers to pay men and...
