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Texas Judge Rules BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard Must Face Antitrust Suit
Aug 4 2025 // A federal judge in Texas largely denied a request by the world’s largest asset managers to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Republican state attorneys general claiming they colluded to reduce coal output, in a case that...
New Law Orders Louisiana Insurers to Show Prior Policy Premiums
Aug 4 2025 // Under a new state law, Louisiana insurers will be required to give mandatory disclosure of prior policy premium when issuing a renewal policy to a policyholder. Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple sent an advisory...
Industry Trades Throw Support Behind Bill to Affirm State Regulation of Insurance
Jul 29 2025 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) is supporting a bill first introduced more than 18 months ago to limit the authority of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and protect state regulation...
Musk’s Geopolitical Influence Raises Concerns Among Regulators and Lawmakers
Jul 29 2025 // During a pivotal push by Ukraine to retake territory from Russia in late September 2022, Elon Musk gave an order that disrupted the counteroffensive and dented Kyiv’s trust in Starlink, the satellite internet service...
Judge Sanctions Lawyers Defending Alabama’s Prisons For Citing Fake Cases From AI
Jul 28 2025 // A federal judge reprimanded lawyers with a high-priced firm defending Alabama’s prison system for using ChatGPT to write court filings with “completely made up” case citations. U.S. District Judge Anna...
Meta Clashes With Apple, Google Over Child Age Check Legislation
Jul 25 2025 // The biggest tech companies are warring over who’s responsible for children’s safety online, with billions of dollars in fines on the line as states rapidly pass conflicting laws requiring companies to verify...
AXA Wins $908 Million UK Court Ruling Against Santander Over Protection Insurance
Jul 25 2025 // French insurer AXA won a London court ruling on Friday worth nearly 675 million pounds ($908 million) against Santander over the mis-selling of payment protection insurance more than two decades ago. The dispute between...
Kazakh Black Sea Oil Exports Halted by New Russian Regulations, Sources Say
Jul 25 2025 // Foreign oil tankers are being temporarily barred from loading at Russia’s main Black Sea ports following new regulations, two industry sources said on Wednesday [July 23], effectively blocking exports from Kazakhstan...
Long-Standing Problems Led Up to Deadly Texas Floods, Lawmakers Told
Jul 24 2025 // No minimum qualifications for local emergency management coordinators. No easy way to know if local officials are getting weather warnings. Difficulty getting all first responders on the same radio communication...
Judge Approves $318M From Sale of Lindberg’s Software Firms to Repay Victims
Jul 24 2025 // After two years of litigation, maneuvering and negotiating, insurance companies once owned by convicted North Carolina businessmen Greg Lindberg may soon see some recovery of the millions in assets that Lindberg allegedly...
HP Lost £730 Million After Buying Mike Lynch’s Autonomy, Judge Says
Jul 22 2025 // Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. lost around £730 million ($985 million) after it bought Mike Lynch’s firm Autonomy Corp., a London judge ruled less than a year after the British tech tycoon drowned when his yacht...
Authors Suing Anthropic Can Band Together in Copyright Suit, Judge Rules
Jul 21 2025 // A California federal judge ruled on Thursday that three authors suing artificial intelligence startup Anthropic for copyright infringement can represent writers nationwide whose books Anthropic allegedly pirated to train...
Deadly Massachusetts Fire Highlights Assisted Living Regulation, Staffing
Jul 17 2025 // The Massachusetts assisted-living facility where a fatal fire killed nine people was caring for dozens of aging residents reliant on wheelchairs and oxygen tanks, but it lacked the safety measures and most of the staffing...
Louisiana Insurers Must Disclose Prior Policy Premiums Under Controversial New Law
Jul 15 2025 // Under a new state law, Louisiana insurers will be required to give mandatory disclosure of prior policy premium when issuing a renewal policy to a policyholder. Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple sent an advisory...
Lawsuit Challenges Florida’s Citizens Claims Arbitration by Administrative Judges
Jul 15 2025 // A Miami homeowner is suing Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. for forcing him into arbitration over a 2024 damage claim dispute, claiming the process violates due process and equal protection...
GOP Lawmakers Press Trump to Speed Review of Chinese-Made Drones
Jul 14 2025 // Key House lawmakers are pressing the Trump administration to accelerate a congressionally mandated review of Chinese-made drones ahead of a potential US ban of the technologies later this year. Three House Republicans...
North Dakota Unifies Insurance and Securities Departments Under New Law
Jul 7 2025 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jon Godfread announced last week that the state’s Insurance and Securities are unifying into following the passage of Senate Bill 2214 during the 2025 legislative session. The new...
Insurance Industry Rejects Proposed Moratorium on State Artificial Intelligence Regulation
Jul 7 2025 // A proposed decade-long moratorium on state regulation of artificial intelligence has gained the attention of many, including those within the insurance industry. The 10-year prohibition of AI regulation is contained within...
Judge Dismisses Texas Attorney General’s Lawsuit Over State Fair Gun Restrictions
Jul 3 2025 // A Dallas County district judge dismissed state Attorney General Ken Paxton’s suit against the State Fair of Texas and the City of Dallas, for gun restrictions that were enacted following a 2023 shooting that injured...
Only Carrier or Comp Judge Can Determine Compensability, Fla. Appeals Court Says
Jul 3 2025 // An employee cannot file a tort lawsuit against her employer until after it has been determined that she is not eligible for a workers’ compensation claim. And that compensability determination can only be made by an...
