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A Federal District Judge in Eastern Washington sided with the Texas-based company Aug. 18 by allowing a case brought by the Pacific Northwest owners of Colstrip to be transferred to
Unintended Consequences: What They Won’t Tell You About California’s Eviction Moratorium Commentary Much has been written about tenants who fall through the cracks of the well-intentioned rent and eviction moratoriums. In the course of that dialogue, any discussion about the moratorium’s effects on landlords and property owners has become lost in the shuffle. As a result, next to nothing has been said about small landlords and property owners struggling to make ends meet in the wake of each eviction moratorium extension. Allow me to elaborate. I represent a nearly retired senior married...
(Barbara Leonard photo/Courthouse News) MANHATTAN (CN) — New York is getting on its feet again after a long year battling Covid-19, but federal appeals court judges dug in Wednesday to landlords’ claims of continuing hardships stemming first from an eviction moratorium and now a state law that lets tenants pay rent with their security deposits. The landlords are fighting the law now as they appeal for an injunction against the moratorium that the District Court denied them. For the state, however, the law is wholly separate from the temporary eviction ban that triggered the fight in the ...
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: California lawmakers proposing changes in the state’s insurance laws face their first significant hurdles in the next two weeks. These bills must be set, heard and passed by the Insurance Committee in their house by May 7 (or sooner) to meet house of origin deadlines or risk becoming a two-year bill—meaning the bill will not come up for consideration again until 2022. The California Department of Insurance (CDI), the state’s primary insurance regulator, is also commencing its own review of new regulatory proposals, making this...
Thursday, March 4, 2021 COVID-19 has left its indelible mark on the nation’s economy. As the pandemic continues, lawmakers in many jurisdictions are proposing legislation that would assist businesses in securing insurance coverage for COVID-19-related losses. In the face of insurers’ reflexive denials of coverage for claims arising out of business interruption losses due to COVID-19, legislators across the country have proposed bills, largely aimed at small businesses, that would, if necessary, override policy language that may potentially be used by insurers to deny coverage fo...