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Texas Senators Blast Regulator for Power Grid Winterization Loophole Lawmakers OK’d
Sep 29 2021 // In a committee hearing on Sept. 28, Texas state senators were furious that natural gas companies won’t have to better prepare their facilities for extreme weather before this winter and rebuked the Texas Railroad...
Allianz in Talks to Transfer Block of Life Assets to Free Up Regulatory Capital: Sources
Sep 28 2021 // Allianz SE is in advanced talks to transfer a block of Swiss life insurance assets to Resolution Life, people with knowledge of the matter said, a move that could free up regulatory capital as Europe’s largest...
New York Announces New Consumer Protections in Public Adjusters Regulation
Sep 27 2021 // New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) Acting Superintendent Adrienne A. Harris announced new consumer protections in New York’s public adjusters regulation, which will become effective October 8. The...
South Dakota Court Rules Pierre Not Liable for Injuries Caused by Trainee
Sep 24 2021 // The South Dakota Supreme Court, in an opinion released Sept. 23, agreed with a lower court ruling that two people on a motorcycle who were severely injured in a crash with a volunteer firefighting trainee cannot collect...
Judge Dismisses Some Suits Against Ohio State Over Sex Abuse by Doc
Sep 24 2021 // A federal judge dismissed some of the biggest unsettled lawsuits over Ohio State’s failure to stop decades-old sexual abuse by now-deceased team doctor Richard Strauss, saying it’s indisputable Strauss abused...
Judge Clears Kansas City COVID Business Interruption Claim for Trial
Sep 24 2021 // A federal judge in Kansas City has cleared a restaurant group’s COVID-related business interruption claim for jury trial, finding that an 8th Circuit Court decision that found no coverage was owed in a separate case...
Louisiana Lawmaker: Residents Sleeping in Tents After Ida Damaged Housing
Sep 22 2021 // About 13,000 homes in Louisiana’s Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes were destroyed by Hurricane Ida and displaced parish residents have been sleeping in tents and “using the rubble to build their own sort of...
California Lawmakers Vote to Limit Secret Settlements
Sep 20 2021 // The California Legislature voted to guarantee people can call out their bosses publicly in most harassment and discrimination cases. When companies settle complaints filed by their employees, the agreements often include a...
A Matter of National Security: Compliance with Foreign Assets Control Regulations
Sep 20 2021 // Many in the insurance space are blind to the fact that the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is lurking in the shadows. A federal agency in the U.S. Department of Treasury responsible for the administration,...
Judge Likely to Rule for Boy Scouts in Trademark Case With Girl Scouts
Sep 16 2021 // A federal judge said he’s likely to rule for the now-coed Boy Scouts of America in a trademark lawsuit brought by the Girl Scouts. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein on Wednesday told lawyers his...
Judge Temporarily Blocks New York Vaccine Mandate for Healthcare Workers
Sep 15 2021 // A U.S. judge in New York on Tuesday temporarily blocked the state from enforcing a requirement that healthcare workers receive COVID-19 vaccines against the wishes of employees with religious objections. U.S. District...
PG&E Judge Wants to Know Why Power Wasn’t Cut on Line Linked to Wildfire
Sep 14 2021 // A federal judge wants PG&E Corp. to explain why it didn’t turn off power sooner to a utility line suspected of causing the second-largest wildfire in California history. At a hearing Monday, U.S. District Judge...
Judge Approves Purdue Pharma’s $7M Executive Bonus Plan
Sep 14 2021 // A U.S. judge on Monday approved up to $7.1 million in bonuses for five executives of Purdue Pharma, the bankrupt maker of OxyContin, at a hearing at which he faced blunt criticism for his handling of the case from a woman...
Dutch Court Rules Uber Drivers Are Taxi Employees, Not Contractors
Sep 13 2021 // Uber drivers are employees entitled to greater workers’ rights under local labor laws, a Dutch court ruled on Monday, handing a setback to the U.S. company’s European business model. It was another court...
Judge Rules Against Minneapolis Trucking Company in Sex Discrimination Case
Sep 13 2021 // A judge has ruled that a trucking company’s use of a strength test disadvantages women, violates federal law, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEOC said Stan Koch & Sons...
Britain Looks to Revisit Data Privacy Regulations
Sep 10 2021 // Britain said it would overhaul its data protection regulator to help strengthen economic growth and better protect the public, giving authorities scope to impose tougher penalties and fines for nuisance calls and text...
Australia’s High Court Rules Publishers Liable for Facebook Comments
Sep 9 2021 // MELBOURNE — Australia’s biggest news publishers including Rupert Murdoch’s the Australian are responsible for comments that readers post on their corporate Facebook pages, the High Court ruled on...
California Lawmakers Vote to Limit Secret Settlements
Sep 8 2021 // The California Legislature voted to guarantee people can call out their bosses publicly in most harassment and discrimination cases. When companies settle complaints filed by their employees, the agreements often include a...
Judge Rules Boeing Directors Must Face Shareholder Claims Over 737 MAX
Sep 8 2021 // A Delaware judge ruled on Tuesday that Boeing’s board of directors must face a lawsuit from shareholders over two fatal 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people in less than six months. Vice Chancellor Morgan Zurn...
Judge: California Ridesharing Law Is Unconstitutional
Sep 6 2021 // A judge has struck down a California ballot measure that exempted Uber and other app-based ridesharing and delivery services from a state law requiring drivers to be classified as employees eligible for benefits and job...
