On July 27, 2020, the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry’s Safety and Health Codes Board published its Emergency Temporary Standard on Infectious Disease Prevention: SARS-CoV-2 That Causes COVID-19 (§16 VAC 25-220)...more
On July 15, 2020, the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry’s Safety and Health Codes Board voted to approve an emergency temporary standard on infectious disease prevention (§16 VAC 25-220), becoming the first state to...more
Florida has enacted House Bill 1189, which prohibits life and long-term care insurers from canceling, limiting, or denying coverage or adjusting premium rates based on genetic information.
As we previously reported, the...more
On June 29, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, holding that the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) must be removable at will by the...more
As companies seek to adapt to the worsening effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, security experts, as well as government agencies, including the FBI, are sounding the alarm on a drastic increase in the amount of cybersecurity...more
3/31/2020
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On January 29, the Florida House of Representatives passed a bill (HB 1189) that would prohibit life and long-term care insurers from canceling, limiting, or denying coverage or adjusting premium rates based on genetic...more
The B.O.T. (“Bolstering Online Transparency”) Act, enacted last year pursuant to SB 1001, has gone into effect in California. As of July 1, it is unlawful for a person or entity to use a bot to communicate or interact online...more
On May 29, 2019, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak signed into law SB 220, which amends Nevada’s security and privacy law to require an operator of a website or online service for commercial purposes to permit consumers to...more
6/12/2019
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On May 24, 2019, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed into law Senate Bill 684, which requires vendors, service providers and other entities that maintain or possess consumers’ personal information to notify consumers of a...more
6/7/2019
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Earlier this year, California legislators proposed A.B. 981 (“the proposal”), which, among other things, would have exempted insurance institutions, agents and support organizations (“insurers”) from many provisions of the...more