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‘Predictive Pricing’ Top Priority for CA Lawmakers Predictive pricing, a practice involving the use of artificial intelligence to set prices for customers based on factors like the websites...
Patchwork of Paid Leave Laws Set to Continue There’s currently no federal law requiring paid leave. The federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 only requires employers to provide unpaid time...
While artificial intelligence has been lauded the world over for its potentially transformative impact on, well, just about everything , state legislators across the country have been concerned about its...
Insurer Payouts for LA Wildfires Top $12B California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara (D) announced that insurers have now paid out over $12 billion in claims from the largest of the Los Angeles wildfires...
Google Weighs in on Social Media Age Verification Days after Utah passed a first-in-the-nation law ( SB 142 ) requiring app stores to verify the age of users, Google finally weighed in publicly on the...
California’s Legislature passed a bill (SB 339) that would require health insurance companies to cover the cost of pharmacist-filled orders of PrEP medications, which prevent the transmission of HIV. A bill passed in the state in 2019 made PrEP drugs available without a prescription, but pharmacists said they were still having difficulty filling orders for the drugs, due in part to a lack of support from insurers. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) hasn’t indicated whether or not he supports the new measure. (SACRAMENTO BEE, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
Florida’s Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill (SB 248) that, as amended, would limit pain-and-suffering damages in lawsuits against hospitals and doctors. The measure would limit “non-economic damages” from doctors or practitioners to $500,000, no matter how many are liable, and cap such damages from hospitals and other “nonpractitioners” at $750,000. (WUSF)
Florida’s Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill (SB 248) that would expand a more than three-decades-old restriction on who can file medical malpractice wrongful death claims. The measure would allow parents of grown children who died as a result of medical negligence to sue the children's health care providers. (INSURANCE JOURNAL)
Ohio’s Senate voted to override Gov. Mide DeWine’s (R) veto of a bill (HB 68) prohibiting doctors from providing gender-affirming care to minors, as well as barring transgender women and girls from participating in women’s sports. The House voted to override the measure earlier this month. The new law is expected to take effect in about 90 days. (ASSOCIATED PRESS, COLUMBUS DISPATCH)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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