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Trump Administration Joins Challenge to CO’s AI Law On April 24, the U.S. Department of Justice joined a lawsuit brought by Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, seeking to block Colorado’s...
Trump Administration Expands Medicaid Fraud Scrutiny to All 50 States In an effort to fight fraud, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is requiring all 50 states to submit plans for revalidating...
On Jan. 7, 2025, two weeks before Donald Trump was inaugurated, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under the Biden administration issued a new rule barring credit reporting agencies from reporting...
ME Lawmakers Pass Data Center Ban The Maine Legislature passed a bill ( HB 207 ) that would make the state the first to temporarily ban the development of large data centers. The measure would impose...
State and Federal Funding Flowing for Ibogaine Research President Donald Trump signed an executive order providing up to $50 million in federal funding for states to conduct research on ibogaine, a psychedelic...
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J.P. Morgan said last week that insured losses from the wind-driven wildfires in Los Angeles could reach $10 billion, according to reporting by Reuters. AccuWeather initially estimated the total damage and economic loss from the fires would range from $52 billion to $57 billion, but days later it revised its estimate to between $135 billion and $150 billion, which would make the fire disaster one of the costliest in modern U.S. history. (INSURANCE JOURNAL, ACCUWEATHER)
Texas filed a lawsuit alleging Allstate has been secretly collecting driver data through drivers’ smartphone apps. Texas AG Ken Paxton (R) said Allstate and its analytics subsidiary Arity paid mobile app developers millions of dollars to install their tracking software. Last year the state sued General Motors for allegedly collecting drivers’ data and selling it to insurers without the drivers’ consent. (NEW YORK TIMES)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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