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‘Unauthorized Alien’ Limits Among Trio of Auto Insurance Proposals Under Consideration in LA House Three auto insurance bills cleared the Louisiana House Committee on Civil Law and Procedure...
Social Media Bill Dodges Veto Override in CO Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’ (D) veto of a social media bill ( SB 86 ) survived an override attempt. The state’s Democrat-controlled Senate voted...
WA Enacts Law Keeping Medical Debt Off Credit Reports Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson (D) signed a bill ( SB 5480 ) prohibiting collection agencies from reporting unpaid medical debt to credit agencies...
In 2022, there were about 22 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births in the United States. That’s the highest rate of maternal deaths among high-income nations worldwide. That sobering statistic...
DOGE-Like Effort in FL Could Impact Insurance Industry The wave of housecleaning that’s swept through the federal government courtesy of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency appears...
The U.S. Supreme Court rejects an appeal by trucking companies seeking to exempt drivers from a California labor law that would classify them as employees rather than independent contractors. The SCOTUS rejected without comment an appeal of a lower court ruling that said state law, not federal law, determines the employment status of about 70,000 truck owner-operators. The issue is not dead, however, as a federal court in a different case previously issued the exact opposite finding. That ruling is now also under appeal to the High Court.
The New Jersey Department of Health issues new rules that allow home bakers to apply for a license to sell wares made in their own kitchens. The Garden State has been the only one to not allow such cottage businesses to legally operate.
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rules that California must exempt federal immigration detention centers from its ban on for-profit prisons. California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D), who as an Assemblymember wrote the law that barred the state from using the private lockups, said he was likely to appeal the ruling.
A federal judge suspends a Texas law that imposes the most restrictive abortion laws in the country. U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman called the law an “offensive deprivation” of a woman’s constitutional right to abortion services.