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California Governor Says He’ll Veto So-Called Trump Insurance Bill
Sep 16 2019 // California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to veto a bill approved by the Democrat-controlled legislature that sought to preserve federal environmental and worker safety standards in the face of any Trump administration...
Bill Would Allow Service Members to Sue Military for Medical Malpractice
Sep 16 2019 // U.S. Senators John Kennedy (R-La.) and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) have introduced legislation to allow active duty service members to sue the military for medical malpractice and negligence. A Supreme Court decision in 1950...
Pharmacies, Distributors Say Opioid Case Judge Biased, Seek Removal
Sep 16 2019 // AmerisourceBergen Corp., Cardinal Health Inc., CVS Health Corp. units and other prescription drug distributors and pharmacies moved to bounce Cleveland federal judge Dan Polster from the massive opioid liability case...
New Texas Workers’ Comp Laws Highlighted by Insurance Department
Sep 16 2019 // Texas insurance regulators issued a bulletin in late August highlighting and summarizing selected bills passed and signed into law this year that impact the business of workers’ compensation insurance in the...
Louisiana Commissioner Candidate, Temple, Says State Is in Insurance ‘Crisis’
Sep 16 2019 // When Louisiana voters go the polls this fall, in the race for insurance commissioner they’ll have a choice between Louisiana businessman and longtime insurance industry executive, Tim Temple, and current...
Conference: California Workers’ Comp Should Embrace Innovation
Sep 16 2019 // The workers’ compensation market apparently needs to do some catching up where it concerns technology. “Historically we’ve been really slow to adapt to technology and innovation,” said Shaun...
Arch Nemesis of Uber over Driver Pay Sues Before New California Law Inked
Sep 13 2019 // It didn’t take long for attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan to deploy a new weapon in her six-year war with Uber Technologies Inc. over driver pay. Within hours of Uber thumbing its nose at a pending California labor law...
Louisiana Commissioner Candidate, Temple: State Is in Insurance ‘Crisis’
Sep 13 2019 // When Louisiana voters go the polls this fall, in the race for insurance commissioner they’ll have a choice between Louisiana businessman and longtime insurance industry executive, Tim Temple, and current...
U.K. Police Drop Probe Into Pro-Brexit Group Leave.EU, Co-Founded by Insurance Exec
Sep 13 2019 // U.K. police dropped an investigation into whether Brexit supporting campaign Leave.EU breached electoral law, saying there was insufficient evidence to justify any further criminal probe. While Leave.EU made some...
Euro Zone to Launch Public Cryptocurrency in Response to Threat of Facebook’s Libra
Sep 13 2019 // Euro zone governments and central banks are working on a long-term plan to launch a public digital currency that they hope would make redundant projects like Facebook’s Libra, which is seen as a risk to financial...
U.K. Prime Minister Warned that Parliament ‘Forcefully’ Will Try to Stop No-Deal Brexit
Sep 13 2019 // Boris Johnson’s Brexit troubles deepened as the Speaker of the House of Commons warned him Parliament will “forcefully” try to stop him taking Britain out of the European Union without a deal. The premier...
Mississippi Proposes New Labeling Regulations for Plant-Based Foods
Sep 13 2019 // Mississippi is considering new rules that let companies continue to use food-labeling terms such as “veggie burger” and “vegan bacon,” as long as the terms are prominently displayed so consumers...
States Take Aim at SEC’s New Broker-Dealer Adviser Rule
Sep 11 2019 // New York and a half dozen other states accused the Securities and Exchange Commission of botching a final regulation intended to protect broker-dealer customers from conflicts of interest under the landmark Dodd-Frank Act...
Judge: Facebook ‘Could Not Be More Wrong’ in Cambridge Analytica Defense
Sep 11 2019 // Facebook Inc. users suing over the social network’s worst-ever privacy scandal gained leverage to pry into its internal records to back up their claims that it failed to safeguard their personal data, exposing the...
UK Government Will Not Delay Brexit, Says PM Johnson
Sep 10 2019 // Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday he would not request an extension to Brexit, hours after a law came into force demanding that he delay Britain’s departure from the European Union until 2020 unless he can...
Judge Permits Nationwide Privacy Lawsuit Against Facebook to Proceed
Sep 10 2019 // A federal judge on Monday ordered Facebook Inc. to face most of a nationwide lawsuit seeking damages for letting third parties such as Cambridge Analytica access users’ private data, calling the social media...
Judge Rejects Purdue Effort to Dismiss Claim Opioids Are Public Nuisance
Sep 10 2019 // The U.S. judge overseeing nationwide litigation concerning the opioid crisis on Monday rejected Purdue Pharma LP’s effort to dismiss claims that its activities caused a public nuisance. U.S. District Judge Dan...
Space-Faring Nations Need Regulations to Prevent Satellite Collisions: Opinion
Sep 9 2019 // Last week, the European Space Agency reached out to to warn Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. that one of its satellites might collide with a SpaceX communications satellite. When ESA first raised such...
Conference: California Workers’ Comp Should Embrace Innovation
Sep 6 2019 // The workers’ compensation market apparently needs to do some catching up where it concerns technology. “Historically we’ve been really slow to adapt to technology and innovation,” said Shaun...
Trip Advisor Review of Missouri Tourist Attraction Not Defamatory, Judge Says
Sep 6 2019 // A federal judge has ruled that a Kansas cattle farmer did not defame a Branson, Missouri, attraction by leaving a three-star TripAdvisor review. Owners of Bigfoot on the Strip sued Randy Winchester and his daughter in June...
