How Kindness & Giving Prevailed in a Year Fraught with Challenges December 21, 2020 By Bill Ross This year has been unusually challenging, to say the least. We’ve been thrust into a virtual life of Zoom work...
Expansion of Workers’ Comp for COVID-19 Created Narrow Benefit in 6 States December 21, 2020 By Jim Sams While at least 17 states have passed laws or issued orders that expanded access to workers’ compensation benefits for employees...
Declarations December 21, 2020 Hurricane Losses “So many people suffered losses during Hurricane Laura including our farmers and ranchers. With its devastating Category 4...
COVID, Economy, Social Inflation Warrant Negative Commercial Lines Outlook: A.M. Best December 21, 2020 U.S. commercial lines insurers will continue to be tarnished by an A.M. Best negative outlook, thanks to COVID-19 economic uncertainty,...
Business Moves December 21, 2020 National Truist Charlotte, N.C.-based Truist Insurance Holdings reported that it will complete five insurance acquisitions this quarter, adding more than...
8 Things Candidates Love (or Hate) About Job Offers December 21, 2020 By Mary Newgard July’s Ask the Insurance Recruiter column, “10 Ways to Impress Candidates During Interviews,” turned out to be my most popular...
Louisiana Court: ‘Collectibility’ Not a Limiting Factor in Legal Malpractice Damage Amounts December 21, 2020 By Stephanie K. Jones Are a plaintiff’s damages in a legal malpractice case limited to the amount they could have collected in a judgement...
Liquidation Sought for Texas Nonstandard Auto Insurer, ACCC December 21, 2020 By Stephanie K. Jones An application for an order of liquidation has been filed in a Travis County, Texas, district court for a Houston-based...
California Workers’ Comp Written Premium Down 12% over 9 Months of 2020 December 18, 2020 Workers’ compensation written premium in California for the first nine months of 2020 was 12% below that for the first...
Modernizing the Housing Economy: A 20/20 View of 2020 December 18, 2020 By Saumi Shokraee This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. In the blink of an eye, COVID-19 reshaped our world....