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Chamber’s List of 2018’s ‘Top 10 Most Ridiculous Lawsuits’
Dec 31 2018 // A lawsuit targeting California coffee houses for not including warning labels on their products tops the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform’s (ILR) list of the Top 10 Most Ridiculous Lawsuits of 2018. This...
Trial Lawyers Cite ‘Worst Corporate Conduct’ of 2018
Dec 31 2018 // Not surprisingly, the American Association for Justice—representing the country’s trial lawyers– takes a very different view of the civil justice system than does the U.S. Chamber’s Institute for Legal...
Death in the Oilfields: Boom Brings Mounting Risk of Death, Injuries
Dec 28 2018 // Parker Waldridge had worked in the Oklahoma oilfields since he was 16 and acquired the traits that make a good driller: fortitude, intellect and a healthy respect for the power of a runaway gas well. And so, when...
New South Wales Hailstorm Triggers Australia Catastrophe Declaration
Dec 28 2018 // The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) last week declared a catastrophe following storms that caused extensive hail and water damage across Sydney and the Central Coast in New South Wales (NSW). As of Dec. 21, insurers...
Congressional Report Finds Olympic Leaders Valued Reputation Over Athletes’ Safety
Dec 28 2018 // A congressional review of the U.S. Olympic system’s handling of sex-abuse cases criticizes a culture that sought to protect reputation and image over athlete safety. A House subcommittee released the report last...
Wisconsin’s Next Governor Picks Insurance Commissioner, Other Cabinet Members
Dec 27 2018 // Wisconsin Governor-Elect Tony Evers has named Mark Afable as insurance commissioner. Afable has worked for American Family Insurance in Madison since 1994 and currently serves as its chief legal officer. He will replace...
Report: DEA, Distributors Not Doing Enough to Fix West Virginia Opioid Crisis
Dec 27 2018 // A congressional report on prescription pill dumping in West Virginia blames U.S. prescription drug distributors and the Drug Enforcement Administration for not doing enough to help mitigate the nation’s opioid...
16.7 Million Recalled Takata Air Bags Still Unrepaired and on U.S. Roads
Dec 27 2018 // More than three years after the government took over management of recalls involving dangerous Takata air bag inflators, one third of the recalled inflators still have not been replaced. That’s according to an annual...
Vermont Hires New Chief Information Security Officer
Dec 27 2018 // The state of Vermont has hired a new chief information security officer. The appointment of Nicholas Andersen was announced by the state last week. Agency of Digital Services Secretary John Quinn says Andersen’s...
Former Insys CEO Babich Pleads Guilty to Opioid Prescription Bribe Scheme
Dec 27 2018 // The former chief executive of Insys Therapeutics Inc. has agreed to plead guilty to participating in a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe a powerful opioid medication in order to boost its sales, U.S. prosecutors said on...
Ineffective Anti-Drone Systems Leave U.S. Airports Facing Risks Like London’s
Dec 27 2018 // U.S. airports may be just as vulnerable as London’s Gatwick airport to the kind of illegal drone incursions that shut down the U.K.’s second-busiest hub this week. Counter- drone technology performed so poorly...
U.S. Signs Agreement with UK Covering lnsurance Regulation Post-Brexit
Dec 21 2018 // As they previously announced they would do, the U.S. Treasury and U.S. Trade Representative have officially signed an agreement with the United Kingdom to provide insurance regulatory continuity after the country exits the...
Judge Blocks New York from Enforcing Opioid Surcharge on Companies
Dec 21 2018 // A Manhattan federal judge blocked New York state from enforcing a recently enacted law that aimed to collect $600 million from drug manufacturers and distributors to defray the costs of combating the opioid addiction...
Big Pharma Resuming U.S. Price Hikes in January After Pause: Reuters Report
Dec 21 2018 // Novartis AG and Bayer AG are among nearly 30 drugmakers that have taken steps to raise the U.S. prices of their medicines in January, ending a self-declared halt to increases made by a pharma industry under pressure from...
California Commissioner Pushing Insurer Fossil Fuel Divestment to The End
Dec 20 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones continues to push the fossil fuel divestment hot button right to the end of the year and his tenure as the state’s head insurance regulator. Jones this week released the...
Update: Louisiana Credit Union to Pay $110K in Retaliation Lawsuit Settlement
Dec 20 2018 // A Louisiana credit union has agreed to pay a former branch manager $110,000 to settle a federal discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced. The EEOC filed suit against...
Vullo to Step Down as New York Insurance Regulator; Gov. Cuomo Weighs Successor
Dec 20 2018 // Maria Vullo is stepping down as head of New York’s banking and insurance regulator, she said in an interview, after three years in which she created a national model for cybersecurity regulations at banks and fought...
Boy Scouts Face Insurance, Bankruptcy Challenges Over Sex Abuse Claims
Dec 20 2018 // It took Robb Lawson until he was 45 to finally confront a dark memory from his days as a Boy Scout. Lawson was a teenager at the time, a member of a troop in Georgia, picked to attend a wilderness challenge to win entry in...
Marsh Makes Post-JLT Merger Leadership Appointments
Dec 19 2018 // Global insurance broker Marsh announced the appointments of key leaders for its regional, specialty and placement teams worldwide that will be effective upon closing of the pending acquisition by Marsh’s parent...
EPIC Holdings to Acquire Integro
Dec 19 2018 // EPIC Holdings Inc., parent company of EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants based in San Francisco, has agreed to acquire Integro Holdings Inc., which houses the U.S. operations of New York-based Integro Group...
