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Romaine Lettuce Outbreak Highlights Safety Measures in Produce Industry
Dec 7 2018 // After repeated food poisoning outbreaks linked to romaine lettuce, the produce industry is confronting the failure of its own safety measures in preventing contaminations. The E. coli outbreak announced just before...
EU Lawmakers Target Big Tech Firms’ Unfair Business Practices
Dec 6 2018 // EU lawmakers agreed on Thursday to take a tougher stance against tech giants such as Google , Amazon and Apple in new legislation aimed at curbing unfair business practices. A European Parliament committee voted in favor...
EU Court Ruling on U.K. Right to Reverse Brexit Expected Dec. 10
Dec 6 2018 // The European Union’s highest court will on Dec. 10 tell the U.K. whether it should be allowed to unilaterally reverse Brexit, in a landmark ruling that could offer hope to those who want their country to call off the...
Utah Lawmakers OK Medical Marijuana Changes Despite Concerns
Dec 5 2018 // Lawmakers in conservative Utah havev passed sweeping changes to a new voter-approved medical-marijuana ballot measure under a planned compromise that secured the support of the influential Mormon church but sparked a...
How Insurance Broker A.J Gallagher Cleans Up on Clean Coal Subsidies: Reuters
Dec 5 2018 // Earlier this year, the chief financial officer of global insurance giant Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. explained to analysts how the company had turned a little-known U.S. energy subsidy into a profit machine, worth...
Waymo Self-Driving, Fare-Generating Taxis Hit the Road in Arizona
Dec 5 2018 // Alphabet’s Waymo on Wednesday launched a significant development in its costly, decade-long quest for autonomous transportation: self-driving taxis that actually generate fares. With little fanfare, the company has...
Judge Questions Government’s Approval of CVS Acquisition of Aetna
Dec 5 2018 // QQA federal judge who has been asked to sign off on the U.S. government’s decision to approve CVS Health Corp.’s acquisition of insurer Aetna Inc. said Tuesday he was “less convinced” than the...
EU Court’s Non-Binding Ruling Says U.K. Can Reverse Brexit
Dec 4 2018 // The U.K. should be allowed to reverse Brexit, according to an advisory opinion from the European Union’s top court that will fuel the campaign to thwart the divorce. The opinion, which isn’t binding, comes at a...
Self-Driving Vehicle Regulation Bill Gets Late Push in Senate
Dec 4 2018 // Key U.S. senators are making a last-ditch effort to win approval of a bill to speed the use of self-driving cars without human controls, but face an uphill battle on Capitol Hill. Staff for Republican Senator John Thune...
Expert Sees a ‘Strong Need’ for Insurance for Cannabis Industry
Dec 3 2018 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv There’s “still a really strong need” for specialty insurance to cover cannabis businesses as well as medical professionals prescribing cannabis, according to an attorney who...
Will California See More Laws and Regulations in Wake of Wildfires?
Dec 3 2018 // Last year’s California wildfires destroyed thousands of homes and cost billions of dollars, but they also created numerous new laws and regulations in their wake as Legislators and insurance regulators looked for...
Mass. Appeals Court Rules Medical Device Manufacturer Illegally Fired Employee
Dec 3 2018 // A Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled that Dielectrics, a Massachusetts-based medical device manufacturer, illegally fired Ileana Bermudez after she collected workers’ compensation benefits and filed a lawsuit...
CVS Says It Closed on Deal to Buy Aetna But Judge Balks
Nov 30 2018 // In an unusual move on Thursday, a federal judge raised the prospect of not approving CVS Health Corp.’s deal to buy insurer Aetna Inc., which closed earlier this week, during a routine portion of the legal...
Judges Weigh Consolidating Firefighting Foam, Other Water Chemical Lawsuits
Nov 30 2018 // Creating a massive lawsuit over cancer-linked chemicals found in around a third of Americans’ drinking water got a skeptical reception in federal court Thursday. A panel of seven judges in Manhattan repeatedly asked...
Democrats, Republicans Tentatively Agree on Farm Bill with Crop Insurance
Nov 30 2018 // Democrats and Republicans said they reached a tentative deal on farm legislation after jettisoning controversial work requirements for food stamp recipients demanded by President Donald Trump and conservatives in the...
Senators Encouraged by Talks on Farm Bill
Nov 29 2018 // U.S. lawmakers are very close to reaching a consensus in days on the Farm Bill, two senior senators said on Wednesday, after months of bitter partisan debate over the legislation to fund $867 billion in food and...
No-Deal Brexit Could Be Worse for UK Economy than 2008 Financial Crisis: BoE
Nov 29 2018 // Britain risks suffering an even bigger hit to its economy than during the global financial crisis 10 years ago if it leaves the European Union in a worst-case Brexit scenario in four months’ time, the Bank of England...
Florida Deputy Insurance Commissioner Murphy Receives Dineen Award from NAIC
Nov 29 2018 // Susanne Murphy Florida Deputy Insurance Commissioner Susanne Murphy has been awarded the Robert Dineen Award for Outstanding Service and Contribution to the State Regulation of Insurance from the National Association of...
AXA to Buy Remaining 50% Stake in AXA Tianping for China Growth
Nov 28 2018 // AXA announced it has entered into an agreement with the current domestic shareholders of AXA Tianping Property & Casualty Insurance Co. Ltd. to acquire the remaining 50 percent stake of the company. Total consideration...
IBM Joins Critics Calling for Regulation of Tech Firms’ Personal Data Use
Nov 28 2018 // International Business Machines Corp. Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty joined a growing chorus of tech executives lambasting web platforms, like Google and Facebook Inc., over their collection of user data and urged...
