Latest Gun Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Gun Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Washington Fines Gun Insurance Company $100K for Illegal Policy Plans
Oct 25 2019 // The Washington insurance commissioner has fined a company $100,000 and barred it from selling insurance policies in the state after promising gun owners insured criminal activity. The Seattle Times reported that United...
Vaping, Guns, Marijuana on Tap for Maine Legislative Session
Oct 11 2019 // The Maine Legislature might consider restrictions on vaping, stricter gun controls and new marijuana laws in the coming legislative session. Legislators in the Democrat-controlled House and Senate are hoping to propose...
Parents of Connecticut Teen Gun Accident Victim Settle Lawsuit for $1M
Oct 2 2019 // The parents of a 15-year-old Connecticut boy who accidentally shot and killed himself at a friend’s house have settled their lawsuit against the gun owner for $1 million. The Hartford Courant reported Monday that...
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy Signs Executive Order on Gun Safety
Sep 19 2019 // New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed Executive Order No. 83, directing the New Jersey Department of Treasury, the Division of Purchase and Property, and the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance to promote...
North Carolina Police Report Rise in Gun Thefts from Cars
Sep 11 2019 // A North Carolina police department says it’s concerned about a sharp increase in the number of firearms stolen from vehicles. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department told a news conference last week that...
Lockton Affinity to Pay $1M for Administering Carry Guard Insurance in New Jersey
Sep 6 2019 // Lockton Affinity LLC has agreed to pay a $1 million fine as part of a consent order with The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance for administering a National Rifle Association-sponsored insurance program in...
Mayor of Major California City Wants Gun Owners to Get Liability Insurance
Aug 14 2019 // The mayor of San Jose has proposed requiring gun owners in the nation’s 10th largest city to carry liability insurance to cover taxpayer costs associated with firearm violence. The Mercury News reported that, if...
Gun Maker Appeals to Supreme Court Over Liability for Sandy Hook
Aug 2 2019 // The maker of the assault-style rifle used in the 2012 mass shooting at a Newtown, Connecticut, school asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to overturn a court ruling that allowed families of the victims to sue the...
Sage Program Underwriters Offers Workers’ Comp for Shooting Sports Industry
Jul 23 2019 // Sage Program Underwriters has launched a new national workers’ compensation program for the shooting sports industry. The exclusive program targets all aspects of the industry including: Indoor & outdoor...
Study Links Stricter Gun Laws to Lower Risk of Kids’ Deaths by Firearms
Jul 16 2019 // Children living in states with strict firearm laws are less likely to die from gun violence than those in states with more lax restrictions, according to a study in Pediatrics published Monday. The more rigorous the rules,...
Las Vegas Shooting Victim’s Parents Sue Gunmakers Over Guns Altered by Bump-Stocks
Jul 8 2019 // The parents of one of the 58 people slain in a 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting sued the makers and sellers of the assault-style rifles used in the attack, saying they knew the weapons could be jury-rigged to work similarly to...
NRA to Halt ‘Unlawful Solicitation’ of Carry Guard in California
May 20 2019 // The National Rifle Association has agreed to stop soliciting insurance in California without a license, and made changes to its website and member communication materials to address allegations in a 2018 cease and desist...
Rock Band Sues Colorado Brewery Over ‘Guns ‘N’ Rose’ Beer
May 13 2019 // The rock band Guns N’ Roses is accusing a Colorado brewery of piggybacking off their fame to sell beer and merchandise. The band filed a trademark infringement lawsuit Thursday against Colorado-based Oskar Blues...
NRA Loses One Round Against New York Over Insurance Program
May 13 2019 // A National Rifle Association lawsuit accusing New York’s financial regulator of wrongfully investigating marketing of NRA-branded insurance products in the state suffered a setback on Friday. Senior U.S. District...
NRA Accuses New York of Obstructing Its Suit Over Shutdown of Insurance Program
May 13 2019 // The National Rifle Association accused a New York regulator of obstructing efforts by the gun-rights group to obtain communications between the state and Lloyd’s of London, which last year stopped underwriting...
Shootout with California Insurance Department Yet Another Headache for the NRA
May 10 2019 // Controversy has swirled around the National Rifle Association of late. Infighting that led to the ouster of Oliver North as the group’s president, its tenuous financial landscape and an investigation launched by the...
Texas Legislation Would Allow More Armed School Personnel
May 8 2019 // Nearly a year after a mass shooting at a Texas high school in which eight students and two substitute teachers were killed, lawmakers in the gun-friendly state are close to passing new measures that they say would harden...
NRA Challenges New York’s Attempt to Block Deposition of Regulator
May 3 2019 // The National Rifle Association is challenging renewed efforts by New York state officials to prevent a former regulator from being questioned under oath by the gun-rights group, the latest spat in a legal dispute over an...
NRA to Halt ‘Unlawful Solicitation’ of Carry Guard in California
May 1 2019 // The National Rifle Association has agreed to stop soliciting insurance in California without a license, and made changes to its website and member communication materials to address allegations in a 2018 cease and desist...
Wisconsin Court: Gun Sales Website not Liable in Spa Shooting
May 1 2019 // The Wisconsin Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit alleging a firearms website that enabled a man to illegally purchase the pistol he used in a mass shooting at a suburban Milwaukee spa six years ago is liable in the...
