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States Passing Laws to Aid Small Pharmacies States including Colorado ( HB 1094 ), Georgia ( HB 196 ), Indiana ( SB 140 ), Iowa ( SB 383 ) and Montana (HB 740) have passed laws this year setting minimum...
Child labor may evoke Dickensian images of young children in dirty, oversized clothes laboring in dusty, dangerous workshops. But this year legislators in Florida considered a bill ( SB 918 ) that would...
MN Enacts Nation’s First Social Media Warning Label Requirement Minnesota enacted a first-in-the-nation provision ( HB 2 a / SB 6 a ) requiring social media platforms to display mental health warning...
CA to Investigate State Farm over LA Wildfire Claims California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara (D) announced a “market conduct examination” of State Farm over consumer complaints about...
OR Enacts Nation’s Strongest Corporate Health Care Law Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek (D) signed a bill ( SB 951 ) imposing the toughest regulations on private and corporate control of medical practices...
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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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