Read the entire supreme court decision here.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/98542606/Supreme-Court-Healthcare-Decision-062812
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Crash avoidance technology
It may seem like science fiction to some of us older than 30 but in Ann Arbor Michigan there is a real-world test of a car-to-car communication system to avoid crashes…similar to the collision avoidance system used on airlines today. Check it out:
Sanity still exists in some legal decisions
A woman who texted her boyfriend while he was driving cannot be held liable for a car crash he caused while responding, seriously injuring a motorcycling couple, a judge in New Jersey ruled last Friday in what is believed to be the first case of its kind in the country.
Had the judge ruled in favor of the plantiff this would have opened pandora’s box regarding liability insurance for the person sending the text. Would auto insurance, homeowners, or umbrella insurance be responsible?
You can read more about this legal decision in this suit involving texting here.
Flood insurance extended to July 31
As expected, President Barack Obama on May 31 signed into law an extension of the federal flood insurance program until July 31.
H.R. 5740, agreed to by the House and Senate last week, reauthorizes the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) to enter into new contracts for flood insurance and borrow from the Treasury through July 31, 2012. Also beginning on July 1, 2012, the law phases out subsidized premium rates for residential property that is not the primary residence of an individual.
Without the extension, the program would have expired May 31.
The deal for this latest short-term extension was struck after Senate leaders agreed they would take up longer-term authorization and reforms of the NFIP later this month.
Both the House and Senate have legislation under consideration that would reauthorize the NFIP through 2016. The House passed H.R. 1309 with a 406-22 bipartisan vote in 2011. The Senate Banking Committee has approved its own reform bill, S. 1940, the Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act, last September, however it not yet been afforded full Senate consideration despite the urging of 41 senators in February. That floor consideration is now supposed to happen this month.
The NFIP has been caught in a cycle of short-term extensions and several lapses since 2008. The NFIP expired four times in 2010 alone. The NFIP is nearly $18 billion in debt to federal taxpayers.