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CA Regulators Complete Review of Wildfire Risk Model California’s Department of Insurance has completed a review of the state’s first wildfire catastrophe model, which property/casualty insurers...
Trump Administration’s ‘AI Action Plan’ Targets State AI Regulation The Trump administration released an “AI Action Plan,” aimed at speeding the development of artificial...
In the span of just 36 days this spring and summer, the number of states offering unemployment benefits to striking workers doubled—to four. New Jersey was the first to offer such benefits, beginning...
Developing Anti-‘Debanking’ Trend in Red States? A new front appears to have opened in the ongoing battle over environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. In March Idaho Gov. Brad...
FL Requests Medicaid Waiver to Bolster Health Workforce Florida is seeking a federal waiver to use Medicaid funding to expand its health care workforce, a plan that could be adopted by other states....
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Arkansas’ General Assembly passed a bill (HB 1977) requiring employers in the state to allow their workers to opt-out of getting vaccinated for COVID-19. The measure failed to draw the two-thirds majority vote in the Senate required to approve its emergency clause, which would have made the measure effective immediately. Ordinarily, that would have meant it wouldn’t take effect until 90 days after the legislative session’s adjournment. But lawmakers employed a procedural move that will allow them to take another vote on the effective date of the bill. (ASSOCIATED PRESS, STATE NET)
A federal jury ordered Tesla Inc. to pay over $130 million in damages to a Black former employee. The jury found that the company didn’t take sufficient action to protect Owen Diaz, an elevator operator at the company’s Fremont factory in 2015 and 2016, from racial harassment. (INSURANCE JOURNAL)
-- Compiled by KOREY CLARK