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CA Insurance Commissioner Orders Moratorium on Cancellations for Fire-Impacted Homeowners California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara issued a one-year moratorium on the cancellation or non-renewal...
AI Big Issue at NCSL Summit Artificial intelligence was a major focus of the National Conference of State Legislatures’ 2024 Summit in Louisville last week, with 10 sessions devoted to various...
A recent analysis by the website GoodRx found that the cost of prescription drugs in the United States has risen 37 percent over the past decade, outstripping inflation . Drug companies, insurers and...
CA High Court Upholds Gig-Economy Ballot Measure California’s Supreme Court ruled that a ballot measure passed by the state’s voters in 2020, allowing Uber, Lyft and DoorDash to continue...
MT Follows Trend of States Increasing Oversight of Nonprofit Hospitals The Montana Department of Public Health has proposed rules regarding the collection of data on nonprofit hospitals’ charitable...
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara issued a one-year moratorium on the cancellation or non-renewal of residential insurance coverage for more than 185,000 policyholders impacted by recent major fires in the state. The moratorium shields homeowners within the perimeters or adjoining ZIP codes of the fires for one regardless of whether they suffered a loss. (INSURANCE JOURNAL)
Five Louisiana legislative committees with oversight of insurance met last week to discuss the causes of and potential solutions for the state’s high insurance rates. The state’s Legislature is expected to meet in a special session on insurance issues in 2025. (LOUISIANA ILLUMINATOR)
As the backlash against diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, investing has intensified in the United States, the number of resolutions companies have been receiving from investors urging them to abandon their support of DEI programs has been rising, with 42 such anti-DEI resolutions having been filed this year, up from just one three years ago. But for now, pro-DEI resolutions still outnumber anti-DEI resolutions. (INSURANCE JOURNAL)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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