Wyoming marijuana advocates plan to begin circulating petitions in September for two proposed ballot measures – one asking if the state should legalize medical marijuana, and the other if it should decriminalize pot. The Wyoming Attorney General’s Office this week …
San Jose, Calif., officials have passed a new law that requires gun owners to carry liability insurance and pay a fee to cover taxpayers’ costs associated with gun violence. The law is the first in the U.S. and was unanimously …
Regulators amid much fanfare in early 2020 approved two cannabis lounges in Alaska, making it one of the few states where customers would be allowed to use marijuana at retail pot shops. Then the pandemic hit. One of the sites …
The owner of an offshore oilfield boat that overturned off Louisiana plans to use $25 million in insurance on the vessel to pay down part of the Texas company’s debts. Attorneys for families of men killed when the Seacor Power …
Delta-8 is generating quite a buzz over what appears to be legal loophole enabling the production and sales of the intoxicating product in both legal and non-legal states. New York just became the latest state to ban delta-8 THC, as …
Officials in Salem, Ore., say damage from a February ice storm will cost about $4.6 million to repair. The Statesman Journal reported the money will be spend repairing infrastructure and clearing downed trees. As of April 21, a total of …
A new report highlights the opportunity for insurers in cannabis. New Dawn Risk launched its latest white paper on insurance for the U.S. legal cannabis, CBD and hemp markets. The 2021 report is called “Opportunity knocks at last in the …
Thein Kevin Nguyen, 31, of Sacramento, Calif., has been charged with one felony count of fraud for allegedly running a scam where he reportedly filed 35 fraudulent cell phone loss claims, collected the proceeds from the claims, and then sold …
Officials in Kingman say the city’s computer system is slowly getting back to fully operational after a recent cyberattack. The city also said it has insurance to help with the process. The Feb. 26 attack from an unknown source knocked …
Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris, D-Laguna Beach, in collaboration with California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara introduced a bill intended to ensure that licensed drug abuse recovery and treatment facilities and recovery residences that contract with the government have minimum insurance coverage levels, …
