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FAA Ruling Grounds AirPooler’s Uber-Style Sharing in Air Travel
Aug 15 2014 // The trend in sharing services popularized by Uber Technologies Inc. and Airbnb Inc. will take longer to gain a foothold in the world of aviation, if at all. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration reviewed its rules and...
States Still Grappling with Surplus Lines Tax Sharing
Aug 15 2014 // Things have changed a bit for the surplus lines industry since the Non-admitted and Reinsurance Reform Act, (NRRA) part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform legislation, passed in 2010. The NRRA’s implementation has...
AIG’s 13-Year Wait Gets Longer as Modi Rebuffed: Corporate India
Aug 14 2014 // American International Group Inc. has waited 13 years in India to raise its stake in a local venture from a maximum allowed 26 percent. That wait is about to get longer. Opposition lawmakers, during the current session of...
Avon Mountain Crash Lawsuits Dismissed in Connecticut
Aug 13 2014 // The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled on Monday that victims of the 2005 fiery crash at the bottom of Avon Mountain that killed four people and injured 19 others cannot sue the state on allegations that Route 44 had a...
EC Consults on Functioning, Future of Insurance Anti-Trust Block Exemption
Aug 13 2014 // The European Commission (EC) has issued a questionnaire to seek the views of stakeholders on the functioning and the future of the Insurance Block Exemption Regulation (IBER), which exempts certain agreements between...
Maryland Lawmaker: Legislation on Web-Based Ridesharing Likely
Aug 12 2014 // A Maryland lawmaker says the Legislature and not the state Public Service Commission should come up with policies to regulate Web-based ride-sharing services like Uber, after the PSC ruled this week that such companies...
IRC: Uninsured Motorists a Perplexing, Pervasive Concern
Aug 12 2014 // A new report shows there hasn’t been much ground gained in the battle to reduce the number of uninsured motorists on the road, and there’s nowhere experts can point their fingers as an explanation of the...
California Judge Tosses Loral’s $283 Million Patent Infringement Loss
Aug 12 2014 // Loral Space & Communications Inc. won a reversal of a $283 million damages award against its former unit Space Systems/Loral, as the winning company, ViaSat Inc., sought a court order barring further patent...
Alabama Judge Dismisses Circumcision Malpractice Case
Aug 11 2014 // An Alabama law passed to rein in health care costs nearly three decades ago was at the heart of a judge’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit over what a man claims was a botched circumcision. Circuit Judge Jim Hughey III...
Judge Says Inspectors Must Have Full Access to North Dakota Mine
Aug 8 2014 // A North Dakota company must allow federal inspectors unfettered access to a sand and gravel mine that is the subject of workplace safety complaints, a federal judge ordered Aug. 6. The U.S. Department of Labor filed a...
Maryland Panel Says Uber Subject to State Regulations
Aug 8 2014 // Maryland’s state body that oversees utilities and transportation in the state ruled Wednesday that a popular Web-based ridesharing service is subject to state regulation. The Public Service Commission ruled that Uber...
U.S. Fire Prevention Budget Tapped to Fight Summer’s Wildfires
Aug 8 2014 // The U.S. Forest Service will soon have to scale back some projects designed to help prevent wildfires so that it can meet the expenses of fighting this summer’s round of fires. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said...
Uber, Lyft Given OK to Operate in Virginia
Aug 7 2014 // Virginia is allowing ridesharing companies Uber and Lyft to operate under a temporary agreement between the companies and the state, officials said Wednesday. The move follows letters from state officials in June telling...
Louisiana Flood Authority Challenges Law Blocking ‘Big Oil’ Lawsuit
Aug 7 2014 // A south Louisiana flood authority is fighting a new state law aimed at retroactively killing a lawsuit filed last year over coastal damage attributed to oil and gas drilling. The Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection...
Texas Bill Would Delay New Rules on Storing Hazardous Chemicals
Aug 7 2014 // The massive fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people last year is unlikely to meaningfully change regulatory or safety rules in Texas until at least 2016 under the latest bill offered Aug.5 by lawmakers tasked with...
Mississippi City Eyes Ice Cream Truck Regulations
Aug 6 2014 // Aldermen in Ocean Springs, Mississippi are considering writing laws to regulate ice cream trucks. Officials told The Sun Herald that a mother recently watched her child, along with the others, leave a birthday party in a...
Obama Administration Weighing Options to Curb Corporate Inversions
Aug 6 2014 // The U.S. Treasury Department is examining unilateral actions to curb corporate inversions, reversing its position that only Congress has the authority to stop or slow the deals. About three weeks after Secretary Jacob J....
NRA Seeks Guns-in-Cars Law in Alabama
Aug 5 2014 // A lobbyist for the National Rifle Association said the gun lobby expects to support legislation in Alabama next year allowing people to carry a loaded handgun in their car without a permit. NRA lobbyist Michael Sullivan...
Drunken Driving Crackdown Among New Maine Laws
Aug 4 2014 // A new Maine law that aims to crack down on people with multiple drunken driving violations is among several that kicked in last Friday, roughly three months after the Democratic-led Legislature wrapped up its short,...
Mass. OKs Bill Tying Flood Insurance to Mortgage Balance
Aug 4 2014 // Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick on July 23 signed into law legislation that prohibits creditors from requiring residential property owners to buy flood insurance in an amount that exceeds the balance of their mortgage or...
