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Canada’s Crackdown on Trucker-Protest Funding May Be Challenge for Insurers, Banks
Feb 18 2022 // Canada roped in banks to help cut funding to protesters against COVID-19 mandates this week, but the requested speed and broad scope of the measures leaves financial institutions to their own devices in enforcing most of...
Could the Musk-Lara Smackdown Offer a Way Forward on Prop 103?
Feb 17 2022 // When an obscure provision of a state’s 1988 insurance law makes the news, it’s often confined to the pages of Insurance Journal. However, when the world’s richest man tweets about that law in the course...
Louisiana Lawmakers Launch Probe Into Fatal Arrest of Black Motorist
Feb 17 2022 // Declaring “no cover-up will be tolerated,” Louisiana’s top GOP lawmaker announced a bipartisan legislative investigation into the deadly 2019 arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene, an inquiry that will...
Judge Told Release of Insurance Info OK in New Mexico Clergy Abuse Case
Feb 17 2022 // A federal judge has been told that Archdiocese of Santa Fe records that would indicate how much insurance money is available to help pay a settlement of clergy sex abuse claims can be made public if they are redacted to...
Florida Insurance Rescue Bills Move Closer to Becoming Law
Feb 17 2022 // Two bills that many in the insurance industry hope will solve some of Florida’s worsening property insurance problems moved a step closer to becoming law Wednesday when they passed a key Senate subcommittee. The...
Heat Wave Early Warning, Ranking System Proposed in California
Feb 16 2022 // A pair of California legislators and the state’s insurance commissioner are pushing a bill to create an early warning system for heatwaves. California State Assembly Members Luz Rivas (D-San Fernando Valley) and...
Fewer Crashes After Utah Sets Nation’s Strictest DUI Law, Study Shows
Feb 16 2022 // Traffic deaths decreased in Utah after the state enacted the strictest drunken driving laws in the nation five years ago, new research published by a U.S. government agency shows. The findings, which pertain to fatalities...
Insurance Broker Hengguang Among Chinese Firms Filing Small New York IPOs
Feb 15 2022 // At least six Chinese companies have lodged documents for New York listings in recent weeks, filings showed, promising an end to a months-long freeze after an unprecedented clampdown last year by Chinese...
Judge Throws Out Palin Defamation Suit But Still Wants Jury to Issue Verdict
Feb 14 2022 // A U.S. judge said on Monday he will throw out Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, after concluding that an editorial in the newspaper did not maliciously link the former Alaska governor and...
Texas Supreme Court Rules Golf Cart Accident Isn’t Covered in District’s Auto Liability Policy
Feb 14 2022 // The Texas Supreme Court recently ruled that injuries suffered in a golf cart at a school isn’t covered in an auto liability policy held by the school district. In Pharr–San Juan–Alamo Independent School District,...
California Lawmakers Pushing Bill to Require Vaccines for All Employees
Feb 14 2022 // California would mandate that all businesses require their employees and independent contractors to receive the COVID-19 vaccine under legislation announced Friday by Democratic state lawmakers that was immediately...
Vermont Governor Vetoes Registration, Insurance Requirement for Contractors
Feb 14 2022 // Gov. Phil Scott last week vetoed a bill that proposed creating a framework for registering construction contractors, saying it would hurt small businesses. The Republican said that while he supports protecting the...
Judge Sets March Hearing on Boy Scouts Bankruptcy After Claimant Group Signs On
Feb 14 2022 // The judge presiding over the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy has delayed the start of a trial to determine whether the BSA’s reorganization plan should be confirmed after an agreement with the official committee...
Judge Blocks Biden Order on Calculating Climate Risks in Government Decisions
Feb 14 2022 // A federal judge on Friday blocked for now the Biden administration from restoring Obama-era values for calculating the cost of climate change in the government’s permitting, investment and regulatory decisions. The...
Arkansas Judge Dismisses Duggar Sister’s Suit Over Records’ Release
Feb 14 2022 // A federal judge on Feb. 9 dismissed a lawsuit four sisters of Josh Duggar filed over the release of records from a police investigation that concluded the former reality television star fondled them. U.S. District Judge...
Texas Judge Drops Two of Six Boeing Max Test Fraud Counts Against Pilot
Feb 14 2022 // A judge has tossed two of six fraud counts against a former Boeing pilot involved in evaluating the troubled Boeing 737 Max jetliner. A federal judge in Fort Worth last week dismissed, on technical grounds, counts that...
Judge Deals Blow to California FAIR Plan’s Efforts to Stay Insurance Commissioner’s Order
Feb 11 2022 // A judge has denied a request a preliminary injunction to halt the enforcement of an order from California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara that the California FAIR Plan Association offer an expanded homeowners insurance...
Hospital Violated Maine’s Equal Pay Law, Judge Rules
Feb 11 2022 // A federal judge has ruled that a Maine hospital violated the state’s equal pay law by paying a female psychologist barely half the wage of her male colleagues. The judge ruled that Northern Light Acadia Hospital...
Judge Will Consider Secrecy of Insurance Records in New Mexico Abuse Case
Feb 10 2022 // A federal judge will hold a hearing on whether the Archdiocese of Santa Fe in New Mexico must disclose records on insurance coverage expected to pay much of a settlement in a case involving over 400 hundreds of victims of...
House Passes Ban on Mandatory Arbitration for Sexual Misconduct Claims
Feb 10 2022 // The U.S. House has passed legislation barring contracts that force people to settle sexual assault or harassment cases through arbitration rather than in court, a process that often benefits employers and keeps misconduct...
