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EU Seeks Agreement on Ground-Breaking Regulations for Crypto Assets
Jun 30 2022 // The European Union on Thursday will seek agreement on ground-breaking rules for regulating crypto assets as the rout in bitcoin piles pressure on authorities to rein in the sector. Globally, crypto assets are largely...
Court Ruling Provides Ammo for Insurers in Florida AOB Cases
Jun 29 2022 // Florida insurers may have another weapon in the war over assignments of benefits in insurance claims, thanks to an appeals court ruling that went against one of the insurance industry’s most visible and active...
Judge Orders New Trial in Tesla Worker’s Race Bias Lawsuit
Jun 28 2022 // A federal judge in California on Monday ordered a new trial on the damages Tesla Inc. owes to a Black former factory worker who accused the company of race discrimination, after he turned down a $15 million award. U.S....
DeSantis Appoints 3 Insurance Defense Attorneys as Workers’ Comp Judges
Jun 28 2022 // Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has appointed three insurance defense attorneys to the state’s workers’ compensation bench. Jacobs (Linkedin) Jill Jacobs has worked as deputy city attorney for Palm Beach for the last...
Maine AG Says Religious Schools May Face Obstacles Despite Supreme Court Ruling
Jun 28 2022 // Religious schools got what they wanted when the Supreme Court allowed them to participate in a state tuition program. But the state attorney general said the ruling will be for naught unless the schools are willing to...
UK Should Avoid Hasty Financial Services Reforms Following Brexit: Lawmakers
Jun 23 2022 // Britain should avoid hasty reforms to make its financial sector more globally competitive after the industry’s separation from the European Union by Brexit, a parliamentary report said on Thursday. The finance...
Louisiana Lawmakers Seek More Time to Use Katrina Aid
Jun 22 2022 // Members of Congress from Louisiana are calling for federal officials to extend deadlines for spending Hurricane Katrina recovery funds on New Orleans road and water infrastructure projects. Sens. Bill Cassidy and John...
The Balancing Act of Insurance Regulation
Jun 20 2022 // Insurance regulation in the United States is overly complicated, unreasonably difficult, and at times it’s totally politically motivated because everyone wants to keep their job or get a better one. The system of...
Judge Removes Barrier for Nebraska Medical Marijuana Campaign
Jun 16 2022 // A federal judge in Nebraska removed a major obstacle for activists who want to legalize medical marijuana via a ballot campaign, ruling that petition circulators no longer have to gather signatures from at least 5% of...
UK Lawmakers Warn About Watering Down Post-Brexit Financial Regulation
Jun 16 2022 // Brexit is no reason to radically alter British financial regulation and regulators should not be forced to water down rules to boost London’s competitiveness, or stray from global standards, a UK parliamentary...
Court Rules Bronx Zoo Elephant Named Happy Doesn’t Qualify as a Person
Jun 15 2022 // Happy the elephant may be intelligent and deserving of compassion, but she cannot be considered a person being illegally confined to the Bronx Zoo, New York’s top court ruled Tuesday. The 5-2 decision by the state...
Louisiana Dept. of Insurance Amending 5 Regulations
Jun 14 2022 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) said in the last two weeks it intends to amend at least five regulations. The LDI seems to amend Regulation 42 to bring the regulation into alignment with current law....
Judge Allows New York’s Lawsuit Against NRA to Move Forward
Jun 13 2022 // The New York attorney general’s lawsuit against the National Rifle Association is no mere “witch hunt,” a New York judge ruled Friday in dismissing the gun rights advocacy group’s claims that the...
Federal Appeals Court Rules Against Applied in California Department of Insurance Case
Jun 10 2022 // The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed a district court’s dismissal of federal actions in a lawsuit that Applied Underwriters and the California Insurance Co. filed against the California...
People Moves: Travelers’ Zimmerman Moves to MAPFRE; Bigglestone to Succeed Provost at Vermont Captive Unit; Koch Named New Jersey Workers’ Comp Chief Judge
Jun 10 2022 // MAPFRE USA Hires Zimmerman to Lead Commercial Lines MAPFRE USA, a leading personal and commercial auto writer and home insurer in Massachusetts, announced that Jesse Zimmerman has joined the leadership team as vice...
Missouri Judge Throws Out $4 Million Award for Transgender Student
Jun 9 2022 // A judge has thrown out a $4.2 million jury award in a lawsuit filed by a transgender student in the Blues Springs School District who was denied access to male locker rooms and bathrooms. The student, identified in court...
Delaware Lawmakers Fail to Override Governor’s Veto of Marijuana Legalization
Jun 9 2022 // A bid to override Democratic Gov. John Carney’s veto of a bill legalizing possession of up to one ounce of marijuana by adults for recreational use failed Tuesday in the state House, likely ending efforts this year...
U.S. Supreme Court Rules Southwest Airlines Cannot Force Wage Suit Into Arbitration
Jun 7 2022 // Southwest Airlines Co. cannot force a baggage handler’s class action lawsuit over overtime pay into private arbitration, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a decision with costly potential implications for...
Google Ordered to Pay Former Australian Lawmaker for Defamatory YouTube Videos
Jun 6 2022 // SYDNEY – An Australian court on Monday ordered Google to pay a former lawmaker A$715,000 ($515,000), saying its refusal to remove a YouTuber’s “relentless, racist, vilificatory, abusive and defamatory”...
Wisconsin Lawmakers Approve 9 Pollution Settlements
Jun 2 2022 // Wisconsin lawmakers signed off Tuesday on $378,000 in settlements of nine pollution lawsuits. The settlement payments to the state approved by the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee range from $5,000 to $160,000...
