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Servicers Take Note: Louisiana Now Allows Insurers to Offer Borrowers Stated Value Property Insurance Policies

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What Happened? Mortgage servicers should take note that on June 30, 2025, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed into law HB 356 (2025 La. Acts 480) creating the Stated Value Policy Act (the “Act”) which allows insurers to...more

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Client Alert: New Maryland Law Affecting Condominium and Homeowner Associations

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Mayland Senate Bill 758 / House Bill 1534 (the “Bill”) was recently signed by the Governor of Maryland, Wes Moore, and will go into effect October 1, 2025. The Bill (available here) amends Title 11 (the Condominium Act) and...more

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2025 Maryland Legislative Update

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The Maryland General Assembly’s 2025 legislative session saw the introduction of over 3,200 bills, with several new and impactful laws passing that will affect community associations....more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Ohio House Bill 113, 136th General Assembly, Regular Session

Ohio law empowers real property owners, acting collectively, to petition their local board of county commissioners to annex real property out of a township and into a municipality. If the subject property is less than 500...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Gold Dome Report - Legislative Day 9 - January 2025

After weeks of talking about the concepts of a plan, Governor Brian Kemp finally pulled back the curtain on his comprehensive tort reform package on Thursday. Backed by more than a hundred citizens representing a broad...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Gold Dome Report - Legislative Day 40 - March 2024

Legislative Day 40 is a roller coaster, full of ups, downs, and zero gravity turns (also known as conference committee reports). One goes from celebrating a bill achieving final passage to lamenting a measure being gutted...more

DarrowEverett LLP

Benefits of Rhode Island’s Housing Legislation Go Beyond Housing

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In an effort to “fundamentally change [the State’s] approach to housing development, particularly for the moderate and affordable development we need most,” the Rhode Island General Assembly recently passed a slew of...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Out with Lonergan, In with Spearin: Texas Legislature Provides Contractors with Limited Protection for Defective Plans and Designs

As of September 1, 2021, in a change to Texas caselaw that had been in place for over a century, Texas contractors now have protection in certain circumstances from liability for defective plans and specifications provided to...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Significant Real Property Tax Savings Available for Property Owners Affected by COVID-19

On April 27, 2021, Governor DeWine signed S.B. 57 into law, which allows property owners to reduce their 2020 property tax bills by filing a special “COVID-19 Complaint” with the county due by August 25, 2021. Complaints may...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

California Legislature Extends Residential Eviction Moratorium and Implements Rental Assistance Program for Landlords and Tenants

Effective February 1, 2021, the California Legislature and Governor Gavin Newsom approved Senate Bill (“SB”) 91 – Eviction Protection and Relief Act in further response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In essence, SB 91...more

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