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States Target School Cell Phone Use At least four states have banned or severely restricted the use of smart phones in schools in the current legislative biennium. Florida became the first state to do...
Compounded Weight-Loss Drugs Creating Headaches for State Regulators With popular weight-loss drugs like Mounjaro, Ozempic and Wegovy in short supply, many doctors, pharmacies and other providers have...
In their seminal book on the American health care system, legendary investigative reporters Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele offered a disturbing metaphor for the illogical nature of medical pricing...
PA Lawmakers Pass Bill Regulating PBMs The Pennsylvania legislature passed a bill ( HB 1993 ) aimed at increasing oversight of pharmacy benefit managers. If signed by Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), the measure...
In a sign of the times, states have begun pursuing bills that require disclosure of the use of artificial intelligence. In March, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) signed SB 149 , making the state the first...
The Virginia legislature passed a bill (SB 256) that, if signed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), would require auto insurance companies that refuse to pay a loss of income, medical expense or property damage claim submitted by a policyholder and are found by a court to have acted in bad faith to pay the policyholder double the amount of the judgment plus interest and attorney fees. The measure would also impose that same requirement for third-party claims of up to $3,500 and on uninsured motorist claims of up to $500,000 for personal injury or wrongful death. (INSURANCE JOURNAL, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
The California FAIR Plan, the state’s insurer of last resort, wrote over 15,000 new policies last month—its highest monthly total ever—after adding 12,000 new policies in January. The nonprofit now provides coverage for about 373,000 homes and businesses, more than double the number of properties it covered in September 2019. (SACRAMENTO BEE)
Michigan’s Senate passed a bill (SB 632) that would cap interest rates on payday loans—which currently can climb as high as 391% per year—at an annual rate of 36%. Twenty other states already have such a cap in place. (BRIDGE MI, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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