News for October 2017
- Farmers Files Trade Secrets Suit in California Against Auto Club Michigan, Former Employees
- Insured Losses from California Wildfires Now at $3.3 Billion
- AIG Names MetLife’s Townsend as CEO, International General Insurance
- Beazley Launches Suite of Financial Lines Products in Spain
- Cat Facility CCRIF to Pay Trinidad & Tobago $7M for Severe October Rains
- Spencer, Nash Join MJ Insurance in Indianapolis
- NetRate Systems Adds Lewis as Director of Client Services
- U.S. Supreme Court Declines Louisiana Coastal Wetlands Lawsuit
- Missouri Educator Who Settled Harassment Suit Alleges Retaliation
- Texas Posts Adjusted Annual Payroll Requirement for Seasonal Workers
- Allstate Sues Former Agent Over EA Agreement in Mass. Federal Court
- Text and Crossing a Street in Honolulu Can Bring a Fine
- GM Settles Alleged Defects Concealment Suit with California County
- Winans Joins Kimball Hughes PR
- AIG Renames Tech-Focused Commercial Insurance Unit Blackboard
- Why States Should Drop Insurance Anti-Rebating Laws: Viewpoint
- Singapore Looks to Create Thousands of Finance, Insurance Jobs
- Severe Weather Sweeps Through Northeast, 300,000 Without Power
- QBE North America Hires Keeping as NYC-Based Eastern Regional Executive
- Key Metrics of New York Workers’ Comp System Tracked in New WCRI Study
- Summerville to Head Swiss Re Casualty, Financial and Professional Services for North America
- AssuredPartners Acquires New Jersey’s Synergy Professional Associates
- Shareholder Activists Press Drug Firms on Business Risks of Opioid Crisis
- Cost-Cutting Japanese Factories Struggle to Maintain Safety
- Test Program Will Alert Owners of Unrepaired Vehicle Recalls
- Investors in Litigation Financing Target Commercial Auto
- QBE Invests in, Links With, Machine Learning InsurTech Startup RiskGenius
- Large Warehouse Fire in West Virginia Finally Extinguished After 8 Days
- Hay Wagon, Pickup Crash in South Carolina Injures 6
- Tennessee Fire Captain Arrested for Setting Own Home on Fire
- PointeNorth Insurance Group Acquires Georgia Agencies Benton & Parker, Cord & Wilburn
- California Workers’ Comp Report Shows Prevalence of Opioids in Set-Asides
- Ohio County Sues Drugmakers Over Opioid Surge
- 3 Licensed Producers Accused of Insurance Fraud Scheme in Louisiana
- Report: Seatbelt Use Lags Among Louisiana Truck Drivers, Passengers
- Houston Labor Union to Pay $30K to Settle Federal Race Discrimination Lawsuit
- Alera Group Names Doucette VP – Human Resources, Organization Development
- The Hilb Group Acquires Michigan’s BKC Insurance Agency
- Legal Troubles, Political Discourse Lead to Insurance Probation for Vermont Town
- Iron-Excess Names 3 to Specialty Casualty Posts for U.S., London
- Top Technology Investments of Workers’ Compensation Carriers: Novarica
- Oregon Cop Says New Phone Law Makes Smartphones Like ‘Hot Lava’
- Workers at Los Alamos Lab in New Mexico Contaminated by Radioactive Material
- California Wildfires: May Take Years for Full Recovery
- HR Departments Often Ill-Equipped to Handle Sexual Harassment Claims: Viewpoint
- Aon to Acquire UK-Based Insurance Broker Henderson
- Beazley Taps XL Catlin’s Taboada, Zurich’s Misol as Financial Lines U/Ws, Spain
- UK Faces Bad Deal for Brexit, Gloomy Outlook: S&P, Fitch
- New York’s Lawley Hires Overhoff as Loss Control Manager
- Pharmacist in Deadly Meningitis Outbreak Cleared of Murder
- Former Maine Fire Chief Admits Starting Blaze That Burned 42 Acres
- Aon Reports 6% Increase in Q3 Revenues to $2.2B
- Basic IT Best Practice Would Have Limited WannaCry Cyber Attack: UK Report
- Insurtech Startup Etherisc Offers Blockchain-Based Flight Delay Insurance
- Randall & Quilter Agrees to Novate Management of ProSight’s Syndicate 1110
- Lloyd’s Re/Insurance Broker RFIB Launches Singapore Operation
- Not All Expect Hurricanes to Bring 2018 P/C Insurance Hard Market
- What CVS-Aetna Deal Could Mean for Pharmacy Benefit Managers
- U.S. Wants Help Removing Regulations Blocking Autonomous Vehicles
- North Carolina Chemical Plant Sued by Law Firm Defending Flint Residents
- South Carolina Officer Fired for Confederate Flag Underwear Photo Awarded $55K
- Florida Hurricane Fund Irma Payouts Could Exceed $5B
- Court Sides with Florida Nursing Homes in Emergency Generator Battle With Gov
- Insured Loss Estimates from California Wildfires Now up to $8 Billion
- California Workers’ Comp Division Holding Regulations Hearing on Medical Provider Suspension
- Seeman Holtz Acquires Texas Agency, Confimex Services Insurance
- Louisiana Ramps Up Effort to Prevent Employers from Misclassifying Workers
- Reinsurer Swiss Re Moving Kansas Office to Kansas City, Missouri
- Michigan Pizza Delivery Man Loses Lawsuit over Icy Fall
- South Dakota Farmers Report 57K Acres Damaged by Dicamba
- AIG Expanding Commercial Casualty Policies to Include Cyber Coverage
- XL Catlin Taps Allianz’ Broodryk as Cyber Product Leader, APAC Financial Lines
- Oklahoma’s Medical Malpractice ‘Affidavit of Merit’ Law Ruled Unconstitutional
- Chubb Reports Q3 Loss Due to Catastrophes; CEO Greenberg Sees Prices Firming
- M3.9 Quake Jolts Southeastern Alaska
- Emergency Response to Vegas Shooting Projected at $4M
- Loss Estimate for October 2016 Italian Quakes Rises to US$244.4M: PERILS
- CVS Health Reported in Talks to Buy Aetna
- What Trump Declaring Opioid Crisis a Public Health Emergency Means
- Insurtech Zenefits, Co-Founder to Pay $1M for Misleading Investors
- AIG, Insurer for Disney/ABC, Balks at Paying Part of ‘Pink Slime’ Settlement
- Toa Re, Barbican Get ‘in Principle’ Approval from Lloyd’s to Form SPA
- Man Convicted of Staging Connecticut Crashes in Fraud Scam Gets Prison
- Prime Risk Partners Acquires New York’s Gunn, Steers & Company
- Assurance Furthers Expansion Into Washington D.C. with Hiring of Groseclose
- Global Re/Insurers Seek Premium Hikes After Costly 3rd Quarter
- K&K Releases New Insurance Program for Air Shows
- Florida Reports More Than $9 Million Recovered for Insurance Consumers in Q3
- Tennessee City To Redact Personal Info From Crash Reports
- Florida’s Hurricane Irma Recovery Tab Tops $650M
- Experts: Georgia Getting Hit Hard by Opioid Crisis
- U.S. Cities Ranked Most Vulnerable to Coastal Floods Due to Climate Change
- California Commissioner Adopts $1.94 Workers’ Comp Pure Premium
- Study Links Colorado, New Mexico Quakes to Oil and Gas Fluid Injections
- MGA Burns & Wilcox Canada Opens Vancouver Office; Key Leaders Named
- U.S. Attorney’s Office for Eastern District of Texas Creates Disaster Fraud Task Force
- Indiana Sees First in a Decade Decline in Medical Payments per Workers’ Comp Claim: WCRI
- Alphabet to Test Self-Driving Cars in Snowy Michigan
- Marsh & McLennan Total Revenues Up 7% in Q3
- Louisiana Sheriff Rejected Applicant Because of HIV, Lawsuit Says
- Willis Towers Watson Adds Wallace as Market Leader in Wisconsin
- Texas Workers’ Comp Prosecution Unit Reports Fraud Indictments
- How Employers Can Help Make Workers’ Compensation Work
- San Francisco Airport Experiences Another Air Canada Jet Safety Issue
- Oregon Woman in $1.8M Suit: Was Misled into Mastectomy, Hysterectomy
- $65M of Unpaid Taxes by New Mexico Insurance Companies, Audit Shows
- Site of Largest Building Fire in Honolulu’s History Open For Plaintiffs, Defendants
- Equifax, Wells Fargo May Still Face Class Actions Despite Wall Street Arbitration Win
- 18 States Denied Bid for Emergency Order to Restore Obamacare Subsidies
- U.S. to Expand Testing of Drones
- Hiscox Appoints Veys from UK Insurer LV= as Chief Investment Officer
- Saudi Insurers Need More Consolidation, Foreign Input, Says Regulator
- Investigators Seeking Source of Gas Leak After Connecticut Inn Explosion
- Widow of Worker Killed by Street Sweeper in New York Awarded $41.5M
- New York’s Frenkel & Company Joins Forces with EPIC
- Munich Re Expects Q3 Loss After Hurricane Claims of $3.2B
- Best Areas in U.S. to Live to Avoid Natural Disasters
- New Online Weather Insurance Program Available from Abacus Insurance Brokers
- Severe Weather in Carolinas Brings Tornadoes, Power Outages
- DUAL North America Announces New CEO, Chairman
- Florida Insurance Agents Recount Hurricane Irma’s Personal Impact
- Holmes Murphy Names Holder Vice President in Colorado
- Markel Launches Primary Coverage for Biomedical, Life Sciences Companies
- School Renovation, Expansion Cause of Flooding, Nebraskans Say
- Mumphrey Joins LWCC in Louisiana as Chief Information Officer
- Thousands of Chickens Killed in Iowa Facility Fire
- Officials Confirm Oklahoma Casino Hit with EF1 Tornado
- Worker Dies at Previously Cited Southern Indiana Auto Parts Factory
- Amid Sexual Harassment Allegations, Besh Steps Down from New Orleans Restaurant Group
- Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Acquires Indiana’s Williams & Associates
- Government Report Finds Climate Change Costing Taxpayers Billions Each Year
- Woodruff-Sawyer Adds Blasher in Southern California
- Starbucks in Legal Battle over California’s Cancer Warning Law
- Brit Global Specialty Adds Nationwide’s Mocio to U.S. Cyber Team
- Suit Filed in California Against Weinstein Co. for Failing to Control Harvey
- Yankees Deflect Foul-Ball Case as Court Upholds Century-Old Rule
- One of Hartford’s Biggest Bondholders Doesn’t Foresee a Default
- UK-Based MGA Nexus Group Buys Trade Credit Broker, Credit Risk Solutions
- Insurance Customers Slow to Adopt Mobile Claims Apps: J.D. Power
- RMS Opens Office in Sydney to Support Client Growth in Australia, New Zealand
- Maine’s MMG Insurance Hires Tawfall as Vice President of Personal Lines
- Willis Towers Watson Hires Toner as CRB Market Leader for New England
- Senate Joins House in Passing $36.5B Disaster Aid with Flood Insurance Funds
- Congress Kills Obama Ban on Forced Arbitration in Battle Against Class Actions
- India’s GIC Re Shares Drop on Market Debut After Raising $1.7B in IPO
- EU President Tusk Believes UK Could Reverse Its Plans for Brexit
- XL Group Q3 Reports Losses in Excess of $1B on Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria
- Investigators Probe Death of Miner at West Virginia Coal Processing Plant
- Accident on Mississippi Fair Ride Injures 2 Children
- Florida CFO Voices Concerns to FEMA Over Policy Management Vendor Transition
- 2017 California Workers’ Comp Rating Bureau Geo Study Released
- Founders Professional Adds Kodikian to New San Francisco Office
- Lockton Appointed Program Administrator of Swiss Re Lawyers PL Program
- U.S. Senator Calls for Increased USDA Response to North Dakota Drought
- Autonomy Getting Closer: Consumers Learning to Trust New Auto Safety Features
- Michigan’s Meadowbrook Insurance Changes Name to AmeriTrust Group
- Oklahoma’s Tornado King Ordered to Return More than $100K in Embezzlement Scheme
- Dugan Joins J.M. Wilson as Sales, Agency Relations Specialist
- Ryan Specialty Group Acquiring Houston’s Oxford Insurance Services LLC
- Alliant Employee Benefits Adds Williams as VP in Oklahoma City
- Iowa’s Millhiser Smith Agency, The Accel Group to Merge
- Oklahoma Energy Companies Settle Suit over Earthquake Damage
- Flash-Flood Watch Issued for Parts of Hawaiian Islands
- Idaho Governor Urges End to Sexual Harassment Amid Lawsuits
- Difficulty of Messaging After Tragedy Shows up in Vegas Rebranding
- Searing Heat Brings Fire Warnings to Southern California
- Bipartisan Bill Would Give Small Businesses a Tax Credit for Employee Training
- Aon Benfield Names Siccardi as EMEA & UK Head of Client Services
- Citi’s Head of Insurance Investments Named COO of Ping An Fintech Fund: Sources
- Former Connecticut Regulator Leonardi Joins AIG in Public Policy Post
- Insurtech Startup, Insurdata, Raises More Than $1M in Seed Financing
- Company to Require Helmets for Ski Resort Employees after Maine Worker Death
- Fire Officials Estimate $1M in Damage from Maryland Apartment Building Fire
- Hoverboard Suspected in Pennsylvania Fire that Damaged Six Townhomes
- The Case of the $25,000 Toy Model Car
- British Financial Regulator Investigates Equifax Hacking of UK Customer Data
- Senate Expected to Pass $36.5B Disaster Aid Bill Including Flood Insurance Funds
- Canada Concerned About Cyber Attacks Targeting Critical Infrastructure: Source
- Unlicensed Contractor Arrested by Florida Disaster Fraud Strike Team
- Collision Between Car, 2 School Buses Injures 10 in South Carolina
- Georgia Reports $4.7M Recovered for Insurance Consumers So Far in 2017
- Train Derailment in Tennessee Sends Multiple Rail Cars Into Buildings
- Judge Orders Georgia Vidalia Onion Farmer to Pay $1.4M in Overtime Suit
- 2 Missing After Barge Fire Off Texas Coast
- 3 Arrested For Stealing $13K in Equipment From West Virginia Coal Company
- CNA Appoints Wilson Senior VP, Underwriting Services
- Mahaffey Promoted to Transportation Underwriter in J.M. Wilson’s Ohio Office
- H.W. Kaufman Group Opens New Burns & Wilcox Office in Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Clanton Joins Lockton in Nebraska
- Governor Evacuated from Beach Boys Concert as Oklahoma Hit with Severe Storms
- Food Poisoning at Louisiana Fundraiser Blamed for 1 Death; More than 100 Sickened
- Another Johnson Talc Cancer Verdict Reversed; Judge Cites Trial Errors, Jury Misconduct
- Judge Wants Evidence in Las Vegas Massacre Secured for Lawsuit
- Costs to Repair California’s Damaged Oroville Dam to Top $500M
- California’s Wine Industry Taking Stock of Losses After Wildfires
- U.S. Warns of Hacker Attacks on Energy, Aviation, Manufacturing Industries
- Once-Stable P/C Insurance Lines Face Headwinds: Guy Carpenter
- Virginia Police Say Car Fire Caused by Improvised Explosive Device
- Massive Fire Ravages Neighborhood in Maine, Destroys Six Buildings
- AXIS Names Swiss Re’s Arora as Reinsurance CEO
- Trump Nominee for Mine Safety Post Is Retired Coal Executive
- AIR Worldwide Introduces Inland Flood Model for Japan
- UK Must Secure Brexit Transition Deal or Risk Losing Jobs: Business Leaders
- New Hampshire’s Optisure Risk Partners Promotes Arnold
- Marsh Taps Saunders from UK National Crime Agency as Cyber Risk Consultant
- The Hartford to Buy Aetna Group Life, Disability Business for $1.45 Billion
- Opioid Abuse Has Leveled Off But Isn’t Declining: ASA Analysis
- Dutch Insurer Aegon Eyes Acquisitions Such as Smaller Competitor ASR
- Insurers Weigh Premium Hikes for UK’s Tall Buildings After Grenfell Tower Fire
- Court Sides with Florida Gov in Battle Over Nursing Home Generators
- CoreLogic: Hurricane Nate Property Damage Could Top $1B
- Pratt Named Chief Agency Officer at North Carolina-Based SUNUP Insurance Services
- Admitted Carriers, CanaBOP Coming to California’s Cannabis Industry
- Swiss Re Adds Management Liability Coverage for Non-Profits, Private Companies
- Brown & Brown Acquires Louisiana Employee Benefits Firm
- Texas Windstorm Insurance Association Request to Raise Liability Limits Disapproved
- Arkansas Officials: Highway Funding May Have to Wait Until 2019
- Farmers in Upper Midwest Report Damage from Dicamba Herbicide
- Iowa’s Grassley in ‘Violent Opposition’ to Withdrawal of Rule Protecting Animal Farmers
- North Dakota’s Godfread ‘Excited’ About Technological Innovations in Insurance
- Zurich’s Mulligan to Lead Aon Benfield’s U.S. Cyber Practice Group
- Investors Remain Committed to ILS Market Despite Q3 Catastrophes: WTW
- Pennsylvania Fire Company Closes Following Sexual Abuse Lawsuit
- Massachusetts’ Morrison Mahoney Elects Six New Partners
- How Middle Managers Coerce Employees into Deceiving Upper Management
- EPIC Adds New Brokerage Team in Pittsburgh
- Pennsylvania’s Kueny Insurance Merges with KMRD Partners
- Insurance Agency M&A Continues at Fast Pace: OPTIS Partners
- RSA Canada Taps Cohen from Aviva Canada as SVP, Chief Underwriting Officer
- Neon Launches Marine Joint Venture in Italy
- Swiss Re Estimates $3.6B in Claims from U.S. Hurricanes & Mexican Quakes
- Extreme Rainfall Could Cost South Asian Cities Up to $215B Annually by 2030
- Fighting Drivers of Commercial Auto Frequency, Severity
- U.S. Consumer Bureau Offers Rules for Financial Data Collection
- Congress Questions Youth Football League on Safety
- GM to Pay States $120 Million to Settle Ignition Switch Claims
- Nashville Keeps Winning FEMA Flood Appeals
- Northern California Wildfires: Insurance Industry Ready to Assist With ‘Massive’ Recovery
- Boyd Promoted to Florida Deputy Chief Financial Officer
- BB&T-Oswald Trippe Adds 2 Commercial Lines Producers to Florida Team
- Parisotto Named Administrative Director of California Worker’s Comp Division
- Early Data Shows Insured Losses from California Wildfires Already at $1B and Growing
- ICW Group in California Names Guy Carpenter’s Novak Chief Operating and Strategic Execution Officer
- California Workers’ Comp Institute Recaps Year in Legislation
- In ‘Energy City’ USA, Hurricane Harvey’s Fury Lingers
- Rockport Mayor Says Much of Town Won’t Be Rebuilt Following Harvey
- Renewed Push for Underground Water Storage Projects Sparked by Harvey
- Fire at Large California Oil Refinery Doused
- New Rules for Oil-Gas Lines Proposed Following Colorado Blast
- California’s Chief Utility Regulator Says We May Never Know If PG&E Caused Fires
- Woodruff-Sawyer in California Names Berry Leader of Private Equity and Venture Capital Group
- Travelers Insurance Reports Solid Q3 Results Despite $700M Cat Losses
- Ironshore’s Singapore Branch Hikes Capacity to $50M for Political Risk Lines
- 5 Risk Management Associations to Develop Mutual Recognition of Certifications
- Maine Man Suing Over Workplace Accident That Claimed Two Fingers
- Delaware Announces Workers’ Compensation Rate Decrease
- New York’s Michael Adam Insurance Agency Joins SAN Group Inc.
- How Nondisclosure Agreements Protect Bosses Like Weinstein
- Willis Towers Watson Appoints Tosti as Head of Italy
- BHSI Introduces Motor Truck Cargo Legal Liability Insurance in Canada
- Zurich Estimates Claims of US$700M from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma & Maria
- AIG UK Sells Its 1st Sharia-Compliant M&A Policy in London
- Assurant to Buy The Warranty Group for $2.5 Billion
- U.S. Healthcare Sector Plagued by Cyber Breaches Caused by Human Error: Beazley
- How to Make a Driverless Car Blameless
- Wells Media Names Simpson to Senior Strategist Post for Branded Content, Research
- How to Make Facebook Liable for Its Content: Viewpoint
- Florida Insurance Regulator Launches New Information Subscription Service
- North Carolina Utility Sues Chemours, DuPont Over Water Contamination
- South Carolina Counties Affected by Irma Now Eligible for Federal Aid
- S.S. Nesbitt & Co. of Alabama Taps Roman, Monroe as VPs
- Minnesota’s SFM Mutual Insurance Joins Board of Global Insurance Accelerator
- JMB Insurance Adds Kanter in Chicago
- Home, Auto Insurance Rates Rose Slightly in Ohio in 2016
- Former Patriots Players Speaking at Risk Conference Air Opinions on Kneeling
- New York Marine & General Insured Las Vegas Festival Targeted by Shooter
- Year After Texas Balloon Crash, NTSB Wants Medical Certification Exemption Tossed
- Arkansas Gov. Opposed to Tapping General Revenue for Road Improvements
- Records Show Unprecedented Increase in Firearm Thefts in Kansas City
- Alerts System for Tech-Connected Cars Planned for Ohio Turnpike
- Ex-Mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma: Insurer’s $4M Payout for Lost Ring not Enough
- Mass. SJC Reverses Lower Court’s Decision in Legal Malpractice Suit
- EPA Appears to Ease Nuke Radiation Safeguards for First Responders
- Progressive’s Flo Turned Into Chatbot
- Is Hyperloop Transportation Technology Feasible or Insurable?
- Hub International Acquires Assets of Maine’s Graffam Insurance Group
- Compensation for London’s Grenfell Fire Victims May Be Capped at $5M: Reuters
- Ascot Group Taps Ironshore’s Roberts as CFO, Promotes Dimsey to Group COO
- Ironshore Hong Kong Offers Legal Event Expense Cover in Hong Kong Market
- China Delivery Firm ZTO Joins Consortium to Set Up Logistics Insurer – to Fill Coverage Gap
- AXIS Capital Completes Purchase of Novae; Executive Team Announced
- The Hilb Group Acquires Delaware’s CNC Insurance Associates Inc.
- New York Finalizes Regulations to Crack Down on Title Insurance Industry
- Alliant in California Names Morana Senior Vice President in Pharmacy Practice
- Cyber Security Specialists Warn Wi-Fi Vulnerable to Hacker Attacks
- Argo and Aspen Issue Loss Estimates for Q3 Natural Catastrophes
- Risk Cooperative Becomes Lloyd’s Coverholder for Cyber Insurance Facility
- Authorities Investigating Multiple Fires in Historic Alabama Town
- Trump Pulls Support for Senators’ Bipartisan Deal to Save Obamacare Subsidies
- Distracted Driving Is More Deadly Than Data Shows: Special Report
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