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California Court Rules Hospitals Can Be Responsible for Abuse by Employees
Apr 8 2022 // A state appeals court ruled that a Southern California hospital can be held responsible for sexual abuse by an employee, upholding a jury’s damage award of $6.75 million to two elderly patients who were abused at a...
Judge Dismisses Charges for Missouri Duck Boat Tragedy
Apr 7 2022 // A judge on Tuesday dismissed criminal charges against three men prosecuted after a tourist boat sank and killed 17 people during a 2018 Missouri storm. The boat was swamped by waves caused by strong winds shortly after it...
Texas Judge: NFL QB Watson Must Address History With Therapists
Apr 7 2022 // Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson must say whether he had sex with 18 massage therapists who supported him last year following criminal complaints, a judge in Texas ruled Tuesday. USA Today reported that Watson...
Georgia Lawmakers Adopt NAIC Rules on Group Capital, Stress Tests
Apr 7 2022 // The Georgia General Assembly this week passed a bill that adopts National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ recommendations for insurance holding companies, including calculations for group capital and a...
Lawmakers Probing Amazon Labor Practices Following Illinois Tornado Deaths
Apr 5 2022 // The U.S. House Oversight Committee is opening an investigation into Amazon.com’s labor practices during extreme weather events, following the death of six workers during a swarm of tornados last year. In a letter...
Alabama, Georgia Lawmakers Make Uber, Grubhub Drivers Independent Contractors
Apr 5 2022 // Alabama and Georgia are poised to join the ranks of those states making it clear that drivers for Uber, Lyft, Grubhub and other delivery and ride-sharing apps should be considered independent contractors, not employees...
Arkansas Supreme Court Rules for Appellant in Elapsed Time Workers’ Comp Case
Apr 5 2022 // The Supreme Court of Arkansas has reversed and remanded a decision in an appeal of the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission’s denial of a claim for additional medical benefits of an appellant over a...
Minnesota Lawmakers Reach Deal to Extend Reinsurance Program
Apr 5 2022 // Legislative leaders announced a bipartisan deal to extend Minnesota’s health care reinsurance program, beating a deadline by one day in a move to hold down premiums for residents who buy their health insurance on the...
Judge Reinstates Trump Independent Contractor Rule Withdrawn by Biden
Apr 4 2022 // A federal judge in Texas has nixed the Biden Department of Labor’s withdrawal of a Trump administration rule governing whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor. U.S. District Court Judge Marcia A....
Judge Invalidates Massachusetts Investment Advisor Rule in Win for Robinhood
Apr 1 2022 // A Massachusetts judge on Wednesday dealt state securities regulators a major setback in their enforcement action against online brokerage Robinhood by declaring the state’s new fiduciary duty rule that underlies...
Judge OKs $83M Settlement for Owners in Miami Beach Condo Collapse
Apr 1 2022 // People who owned units in a Florida oceanfront condominium building that collapsed last year will divide $83 million for property losses, with the compensation for families over the 98 deaths still to be determined, a...
Judge Dismisses Case Over High-Frequency Trading Led by Providence, Boston Pension
Mar 29 2022 // A federal judge on Monday dismissed long-running litigation accusing seven U.S. stock exchanges of defrauding ordinary investors by quietly allowing high-frequency traders to trade faster and at better prices. Exchanges...
Judge Upholds $2M Verdict in Boston Police Gender Discrimination Suit
Mar 28 2022 // A federal judge has upheld the verdict that awarded a high-ranking Boston police detective $2 million after she accused her former boss of gender discrimination, harassment and retaliation. U.S. District Court Judge Leo...
In 7-Eleven Case, Massachusetts High Court Rules Franchisees Can Be Employees
Mar 25 2022 // Franchisees in Massachusetts can be considered employees rather than independent contractors and thus be entitled to the state’s minimum wage, overtime rules and other state worker law protections, the state’s...
Kentucky Lawmakers Approve Bill to Give Insurers Lower Rates From Home Loan Bank
Mar 25 2022 // Kentucky’s General Assembly has become the only legislature so far this year to adopt a bill that could give insurers lower rates on commercial loans from the Federal Home Loan Bank system. The Kentucky Senate this...
Water Drain: Florida Court Rulings Show Importance of Exclusion Wording
Mar 25 2022 // Editor’s note: Insurers report that an increasing share of claims and claims litigation is the result of non-weather water damage. Jacksonville attorney Joseph Mackey, formerly of the Marshall Dennehey law firm and...
Bank of England Begins Developing Regulatory Framework for Cryptoassets
Mar 24 2022 // The Bank of England on Thursday began sketching out Britain’s first regulatory framework for cryptoassets, saying that although the sector remained small, its rapid growth could pose risks to financial stability in...
European Union Lawmakers Agree to Force Foreign Firms to Comply With ESG Rules
Mar 23 2022 // European lawmakers have agreed to force roughly 28,000 foreign subsidiaries to comply with the bloc’s ESG rules, marking a blow to representatives for U.S. corporations who had lobbied for the opposite outcome. In a...
California Lawmaker’s Bill to ‘Restore Ethics and Transparency’ at Department of Insurance Passes Committee
Mar 23 2022 // The Assembly Judiciary Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved a bill aimed at the California Department of Insurance that its author says will “restore ethics and transparency to a state agency he said has been...
Judge Reinstates Trump Independent Contractor Rule Withdrawn by Biden
Mar 23 2022 // A federal judge in Texas has nixed the Biden Department of Labor’s withdrawal of a Trump administration rule governing whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor. U.S. District Court Judge Marcia A....
