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CA Lawmakers Approve Potentially Standard-Setting AI Bill The California Legislature passed a bill ( SB 1047 ) that could become the national standard for regulating artificial intelligence. The measure...
CA Lawmakers Pass PBM Legislation California joined a nationwide movement to tighten restrictions on pharmacy benefit managers with the approval of SB 966 days before adjourning its legislative session...
Data privacy, long a focus of state lawmakers across the country, is poised to enter a new space: your brain. Elon Musk has been making headlines for years now with his company Neuralink , which seeks...
Google Agrees to Help Fund Journalism in CA California lawmakers reached a deal with Google that will provide about $250 million in public and private funding for newsrooms across the state over the...
MA Expands Access to Maternal Health Care Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healy (D) signed legislation ( HB 4999 ) expanding access to maternal health services in the state. Among other things, the measure...
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 year 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 also 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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