On October 13, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) proposed a new regulation (Independent Contractor [IC] Proposal) outlining how the agency, courts and employers should determine whether a worker is an employee or independent contractor under the Fair Labor [...]

On September 22, 2022, the House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing, “State of Emergency: Examining the Impact of Growing Wildfire Risk on the Insurance Market,” providing a glimpse into ongoing efforts to reduce wildfire risk, with a focus [...]

On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed H.R. 5376, the budget-reconciliation legislation commonly referred to as the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA). The IRA, which is a slimmed-down version of Biden’s original Build Back Better economic and climate-change package, [...]

As Congress feverishly rushed to finish up some critical legislative priorities before decamping for home for their annual August recess, they found time to initiate preliminary action to address the expanding policy gap between states that allow for the medical [...]

On June 21, 2022, the Biden administration released its Spring 2022 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, providing a detailed glimpse into the regulatory and deregulatory activities under development across approximately 67 federal departments, agencies and commissions. These semi-annual [...]