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BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – A new law penned by a Louisiana senator aims to protect patients from surprising medical costs from out-of-network doctors. The No Surprise Act looks to prevent services costing an arm and a leg for things insurance policies may normally not cover without the policyholder being aware of it. Senator Bill Cassidy teamed up with Senator Maggie Hassan to create the le...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) -The pandemic may have highlighted a shift in bullying in schools. Reports of bullying in Iowa schools fell 42% last school year. Our i9 investigative team looked at why, and whether Iowa’s laws can keep up. For 14 years the state has required schools to report incidents of bullying. During the 2018-2019 school year, there were 1270 cases reported statewide. That num...

"Hiring" sign from a recent Maine job fair (WABI) AUGUSTA, Maine (WABI) - As of January 1st, Maine’s minimum wage increased from $12.15 to $12.75 an hour. “Because of demand and the scarcity of employees, most of our members are paying well over that minimum wage, even the new minimum wage,” said Kimberly N. Lindlof, president & CEO of the Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce. The increase comes...

The practice of law has changed in many ways during the COVID-19 global pandemic, but a slow-down in class action lawsuits was not one of those changes. In the second half of 2021, consumers filed quite a few lawsuits following a wide range of highly-publicized recalls, involving everything from pharmaceuticals to automobiles. For example, as previously reported, on June 14, 2021, Philips Res...

File photo MADISON, Wis. — Lawmakers in Madison passed several bills in 2021, and most of those laws took effect right after Gov. Tony Evers signed them. However, a handful of laws did not go into effect until the start of 2022. One in particular deals with how much you pay at the pharmacy. Among the most significant changes to come with the new year is more regulation over pharmacy benefit m...

Supreme Court upholds TX abortion law, but says providers can sue 02:28 (CNN)Abortion providers on Monday asked the Supreme Court to require a conservative federal appeals court to return their challenge to Texas' six-week abortion ban to a district court judge who previously ruled in their favor. The long-shot bid on the part of the providers is their latest attempt to revive their challenge...

WASHINGTON — Opponents of the Texas law that bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to get the case back in the hands of a federal judge so they can resume their legal fight. The Supreme Court last month rejected a claim by Texas that the law known as S.B. 8 was immune to challenges in federal court, but the ruling limited opponents of the law to su...

BRANDON, Fla. (WFLA) — Keith Davis went to Brandon Regional Hospital with a sore knee and a medical history of blood clots, but his concerns were ignored, according to his daughter. “I can move [my leg], but I have to help it with my arm,” Davis said in a video he sent to his only child Sabrina. “Like I said, [my foot] still won’t point up. It still hurts really bad.” Less than three days lat...

The Glenn Show A controversial law professor at the University of Pennsylvania is taking heat—yet again—for her racist comments. This time, Amy Wax was called out for being xenophobic in a recent interview with Glenn Loury, a social sciences professor at Brown University, and was quick to clap back at her critics. But her “defense” only made things worse, when she directly stated that because...

John Stafford Plano resident John Stafford will appear in court on Jan. 26 for an alleged state election law violation, Collin County Courthouse documents revealed Monday. Stafford was indicted by a grand jury on Dec. 16 for “True Source of Election Communication,” a Class A misdemeanor. According to the indictment, probable cause was established that Stafford engaged in election communicatio...