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Cannabis Industry: More Regs Will Help Address Vaping Crisis
Oct 10 2019 // In the midst of a vaping crisis that has gripped the nation’s cannabis industry what is needed most right are more regulations. Believe it or not, that was a message from the industry itself. A group of expert...
More States Now Mandate Employee Training to Prevent Sexual Harassment
Oct 10 2019 // Two years into the #MeToo movement, an unprecedented number of American workers are required to receive mandatory sexual harassment training, the result of a handful of new state regulations aimed at creating safer...
Lawrence Mayor, Lawmakers Object to $143M Gas Explosions Settlement
Oct 9 2019 // Elected leaders in Massachusetts are demanding revisions to a plan to divide up a $143 million class action settlement from last September’s natural gas disaster. Lawrence Mayor Daniel Rivera and four state lawmakers...
Greek Shipowner Torched His Tanker in $77 Million Insurance Fraud: London Judge
Oct 9 2019 // A Greek shipowner orchestrated a plan for men posing as pirates to attack and set fire to his tanker, in an elaborate fraud to seek $77 million in insurance money, a London judge found. In 2011, Marios Iliopoulos lured the...
Judge Upholds Massachusetts’ Vaping Products Ban for Now
Oct 8 2019 // A federal judge upheld Massachusetts’ four-month ban on the sale of vaping products on Friday, at least for now. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani denied the vaping industry’s request for a temporary reprieve...
Walgreens, Kroger Join Walmart in Halting Sales of E-Cigarettes
Oct 8 2019 // Kroger Co. and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. said on Monday they would stop selling e-cigarettes at their stores, amid heightened regulatory scrutiny of the product and reports of lung disease and some deaths linked to...
Insurers Named as Defendants in Challenge to Michigan Auto Insurance Law
Oct 7 2019 // Crash victims and a brain-injury rehabilitation facility challenged Michigan’s new auto insurance law on Oct. 3, contending that pending limits on reimbursement rates for nursing and other care violate their...
New York Limousine Crash Victims’ Relatives Call for Stronger Regulations
Oct 7 2019 // Relatives of some of the 20 people killed in an upstate New York stretch limousine crash urged quick action on safety legislation Thursday so other families won’t have to endure the grief they have carried for the...
22 New California Laws Take Aim at Wildfire Danger
Oct 4 2019 // California is adopting nearly two dozen laws aimed at preventing and fighting the devastating wildfires that have charred large swaths of the state in recent years and killed scores of people. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom...
Colorado Banks Quietly Serving Cannabis Industry
Oct 4 2019 // Colorado’s cannabis industry has had a chief request since marijuana was legalized: Give us access to banks. But it turns out that hundreds of the state’s pot businesses are already working with financial...
New York Court Blocks State Ban on Flavored E-Cigarettes
Oct 4 2019 // A New York court on Thursday temporarily halted a state ban on the sale of flavored e-cigarettes, giving the embattled vaping industry a breather just a day before the state’s prohibition was due to take effect. The...
Johnson & Johnson Says Oklahoma Judge Miscalculated Opioid Award
Oct 3 2019 // An Oklahoma judge made a $107 million miscalculation when he ordered consumer products giant Johnson & Johnson to pay $572 million to help clean up the state’s opioid crisis, attorneys for the company argue in a...
High Hopes, Higher Hurdles for Pro-Cannabis SAFE Banking Act
Oct 3 2019 // Regardless of the odds facing a bill designed to enable regular banking and financial services for cannabis business, some experts are encouraged by passage through the House of something that would greatly benefit the...
Washington Joins Other States to Issue Flavored Vape Ban
Oct 3 2019 // Washington is joining several other states in banning the sale of flavored vaping products amid concern over the mysterious lung illness that has sickened hundreds of people and killed about a dozen across the...
How the Future of Insurtech Innovation Is Tied to the Traditions of Regulation
Oct 3 2019 // It’s no secret: Innovators and regulators often clash. But both are needed to help enable a dynamic, consumer-friendly property/casualty industry in the future, insurance and insurtech experts said...
Judge Rules Harvard’s ‘Fine Admissions Policy’ Passes Constitutional Test
Oct 2 2019 // Harvard University’s undergraduate admissions program does not discriminate against Asian-American applicants, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday, rejecting a lawsuit brought by opponents of affirmative action and...
New York Court Denies Industry Request to Delay E-Cigarette Ban
Sep 30 2019 // A state judge has denied the vaping industry’s request to delay a New York emergency ban on flavored e-cigarette sales. Acting state Supreme Court Justice Gerald Connolly on Friday refused to issue a temporary...
U.K. Embraces E-cigarettes, as U.S. Scrambles to Crack Down on Vaping
Sep 30 2019 // While the U.S. scrambles to crack down on vaping, Britain has embraced electronic cigarettes as a powerful tool to help smokers kick the habit. The Royal College of Physicians explicitly tells doctors to promote...
How Early Signs of Lung Effects of Vaping Were Missed and Downplayed
Sep 30 2019 // Scientists, regulators and e-cigarette proponents missed, ignored or downplayed signs that vaping could significantly damage the lungs for nearly a decade, a review of medical literature, government documents and...
Analysts See Senate Joining House on Marijuana Banking Law
Sep 29 2019 // A stronger-than-expected 321-103 vote in the House in favor of the Secure and Fair Enforcement Banking Act, which allows banks to service the cannabis industry, sets the stage for likely passage in the Senate, according to...
