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Connecticut’s Boating Laws Could Be Updated in ’15
Dec 29 2014 // A legislative delegation moved by the August tubing death of a Greenwich High School honors student wants the Connecticut’s General Assembly to take a closer look at the state’s boating laws. The four Greenwich...
Florida Appeals Court Ruling Opens Door for Cruise Line Malpractice Suits
Dec 24 2014 // Pasquale Vaglio, a retired New York City policeman and Korean War veteran, was on the cruise of a lifetime with 18 family members in the summer of 2001 aboard Royal Caribbean’s “Explorer of the Seas.”...
Iowa DPS Report: Wait On Drone Regulation
Dec 24 2014 // Iowa should take a wait-and-see approach to regulating unmanned aerial vehicles because of their huge potential for positive uses in business and government, the Iowa Department of Public Safety advises in a new...
Businesses Push for Terrorism Insurance Vote When Congress Returns
Dec 24 2014 // Lobbyists for insurers, real estate financiers and businesses launched into action last week to urge quick renewal of a terrorism insurance program in 2015 after U.S. lawmakers left it to expire at the end of this...
India’s Prime Minister Plans Executive Order to Allow More Foreign Investment
Dec 24 2014 // Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to pressure Indian lawmakers into approving two key economic policy changes a day after a parliament session ended without a vote on the bills. Modi will use an executive order known as...
Report Calls for More Study of N.H. Workers’ Comp Costs
Dec 23 2014 // A governor’s commission aimed at addressing New Hampshire’s high workers’ compensation costs recommended no significant changes to state laws in a new report and instead suggested gathering more data and...
Marijuana Ban in Washington County Upheld By Judge
Dec 23 2014 // A superior court judge on Monday agreed with an opinion issued by the Washington Attorney General’s Office earlier this year, concluding that nothing in a pot legalization initiative overrides local...
Florida Touts Workers’ Comp Market Competition But Warns on Court Rulings
Dec 23 2014 // Florida’s workers’ compensation market remains competitive and well-capitalized, with loss ratios that are among the lowest among larger states, according to the latest report from the state’s insurance...
Attempt in India to Raise Foreign Ownership Cap for Insurance Hits Logjam
Dec 23 2014 // Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi risks failing to win approval from lawmakers for one of his biggest policy changes yet, a setback that dims prospects for other key bills until he wins greater sway in the upper...
Lyft Gets Pennsylvania Regulatory Nod, Except in Philadelphia
Dec 22 2014 // Ride-sharing service Lyft received regulatory approval on Dec. 18 to operate for two years everywhere in Pennsylvania except for Philadelphia, giving it 30 days to accept conditions required by the Pennsylvania Public...
Injured Snowboarder Can Sue, Oregon High Court Rules
Dec 22 2014 // The Oregon Supreme Court has ruled a ski resort’s broad liability waiver cannot prevent a paralyzed snowboarder from suing. The justices ruled that the liability waiver was “unconscionable” and contrary...
California DMV to Miss Deadline for Autonomous Vehicle Rules
Dec 22 2014 // California’s Department of Motor Vehicles will miss a year-end deadline to adopt new rules for cars of the future because regulators first have to figure out how they’ll know whether “driverless”...
McDonald’s Is Joint Employer with Franchisees: National Labor Board
Dec 21 2014 // McDonald’s Corp. wields enough control over its franchisees that it should be jointly responsible for the working conditions of their employees, according to charges by the U.S. labor board critics say threatens to...
Paralyzed California Teen’s Pop Warner Suit Can Continue, Judge Says
Dec 19 2014 // A Los Angeles judge has refused to throw out a lawsuit by a teenager who was paralyzed while making a tackle during a Pop Warner football game. City News Service says the judge on Wednesday rejected a motion to dismiss the...
Uber in a California Regulatory Standoff Over Data
Dec 19 2014 // Uber argued Thursday that it should not have to turn over ride data in a California regulatory standoff that shows how the transportation service is falling afoul of officials who could threaten its expansion. The issue,...
With TRIA Renewal Efforts Killed, Some Predict Market Chaos
Dec 18 2014 // Property/casualty insurance industry groups, business associations and observers alike were quick to condemn the death of TRIA renewal for 2014. Without federal terrorism reinsurance in place for 2015, they predicted...
Wyoming Workplace Fatality Bill Endorsed by Lawmakers
Dec 18 2014 // Lawmakers have advanced a proposal that would sharply increase penalties when employee deaths occur because of safety violations at large companies in Wyoming, which has long been among the top states for workplace...
ACE to Buy Fireman’s Fund Personal Lines; Famous Brand Fading Away
Dec 18 2014 // Allianz Group has agreed to sell the U.S. personal lines business of its Fireman’s Fund unit to ACE for $365 million by means of renewal rights arrangement. The merger of the personal lines business with ACE and the...
XL Group Expands Executive Liability Protection in U.S.
Dec 18 2014 // XL Group’s Professional Liability arm has released a new Executive and Corporate Securities Liability policy form to protect companies and their directors and officers from what it terms “an increasingly...
Nursing Home Liabilities Transfer Could Be Fraud: Judge
Dec 17 2014 // The owners of a multistate chain of nursing homes may have committed fraud by transferring liabilities to a shell company that later lost more than $2 billion in jury verdicts to families who claimed relatives died of...
