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EPA Official Allegedly Aided Monsanto in Fight Against Roundup Cancer Study
Mar 16 2017 // The Environmental Protection Agency official who was in charge of evaluating the cancer risk of Monsanto Co.’s Roundup allegedly bragged to a company executive that he deserved a medal if he could kill another...
Kentucky Lawmakers Approve Reducing State Coal Mine Inspections
Mar 16 2017 // Kentucky lawmakers have agreed to loosen inspection requirements for underground coal mines. The Kentucky Senate gave final approval to House Bill 384 on Tuesday. It would give the Department of Natural Resources...
Author of Texas ‘Hailstorm’ Bill Says ‘Significant Changes’ Made
Mar 15 2017 // The Texas Senate Business and Commerce Committee on March 9 heard testimony on a revised bill that aims to limit the number of policyholder lawsuits filed against property insurance companies following severe weather...
Judge: ABC Must Face Defamation Trial over ‘Pink Slime’ Reports
Mar 15 2017 // A South Dakota state judge has ordered ABC Broadcasting to face a potential $5.7 billion defamation lawsuit claiming it damaged Beef Products Inc. by referring in a series of reports to a meat product it sold as...
Appliances to Pipelines: Trump Plans Major Rollback of Obama Climate Change Rules
Mar 15 2017 // President Donald Trump is set to sign a sweeping directive to dramatically shrink the role climate change plays in decisions across the government, ranging from appliance standards to pipeline approvals, according to a...
White House Weighing Changes to Ryan Health Care Bill
Mar 15 2017 // House Speaker Paul Ryan doesn’t plan to make major changes to Republicans’ plan to replace Obamacare, according to a GOP aide, but the White House says it’s talking with members of Congress who want to...
Under Republican Health Plan, 24 Million Could Lose Insurance While Deficit Is Cut $337 Billion: CBO
Mar 13 2017 // Fourteen million Americans would lose medical insurance by next year under a Republican plan to dismantle Obamacare that would also reduce the budget deficit, the nonpartisan U.S. Congressional Budget Office said on...
Here is Summary of CBO’s Analysis of Republican Health Care Proposal
Mar 13 2017 // The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) estimate that enacting the Republicans’ American Health Care Act would reduce federal deficits by $337 billion over the...
Canada’s OutsideIQ & SAP Ariba Partner to Assess Risk, Compliance
Mar 13 2017 // OutsideIQ, a Canadian startup which uses cognitive computing to analyze data, is partnering with the world’s largest business commerce network, SAP Ariba , to help corporations quickly screen vendors for risk and...
Uber Settlement to Give California Drivers $1 Each Does Not Win Over Judge
Mar 13 2017 // Uber Technologies Inc. failed to persuade a judge to approve a settlement offering 1.6 million California drivers an average of $1.08 each to dispense with alleged labor-code violations that their lawyer earlier claimed...
Louisiana Republicans’ Response to Health Insurance Plan Mostly Muted
Mar 10 2017 // Louisiana’s majority-Republican congressional delegation hasn’t exactly embraced the GOP proposal to replace President Barack Obama’s health care law, with most members instead offering a cautious,...
Nation’s Toughest DUI Limit at 0.05 Percent Passed by Utah Lawmakers
Mar 10 2017 // Utah could soon have the strictest DUI threshold in the nation after state lawmakers on Wednesday night voted to lower the limit for a driver’s blood-alcohol content to 0.05 percent, down from 0.08 percent. The...
House Committees Advance Republican Health Care Plan Despite Critics
Mar 10 2017 // The Republican plan backed by President Donald Trump to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system cleared its first hurdles in Congress on Thursday, but its chances for passage looked uncertain and top Republicans scrambled to...
New Hampshire House Adds Medical Pot Qualifiers, Backs Decriminalization
Mar 10 2017 // The New Hampshire House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday in support of decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana and expanding access to medical marijuana for people suffering from chronic pain or post-traumatic stress...
House Balks at Senate Plan for Mississippi Oil Spill Damage Account
Mar 10 2017 // Mississippi lawmakers may be unable to decide this year how to spend $750 million in oil spill damage payments, with sniping between House and Senate members after a bill died at a Tuesday deadline for action when the...
Judge Says Sex Assault Lawsuit Against Baylor University Can Proceed
Mar 9 2017 // A lawsuit filed against Baylor University by 10 women alleging they were sexually assaulted while students can proceed, a federal judge ruled on March 7. The women, identified as “Jane Doe” plaintiffs, allege...
Judge Dismisses Shareholder Lawsuit Against Chipotle
Mar 9 2017 // Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. on Wednesday won the dismissal of a lawsuit claiming it defrauded shareholders about its ability to protect customers from at least seven norovirus, E.coli and salmonella outbreaks that erupted...
Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Could Pave Way for Self-Driving Cars, Smart Roads
Mar 8 2017 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv What does the Trump Administration have in store for the development of autonomous vehicles and smart roads? With the administration’s ambitious infrastructure plan still far from...
Rutgers Law School Project Addresses ‘Use It And Lose It’ in Homeowners Insurance
Mar 8 2017 // A new report by the Rutgers Center for Risk and Responsibility at Rutgers Law School in Camden, N.J., in cooperation with United Policyholders, offers recommendations to state lawmakers in terms of how homeowners insurance...
Victims, Roman Catholic Church Spar Over New York Sex Abuse Bill
Mar 8 2017 // New York legislation to relax one of the nation’s most restrictive statutes of limitations on child molestation victims continues to stall under pressure from the Roman Catholic Church and other opponents. The bill...
