UK Insurer Aviva to Sell Vietnamese Business to Canada’s ManuLife December 14, 2020 By Carolyn Cohn and Sumeet Chatterjee British insurer Aviva PLC is selling its Vietnamese business to Canadian insurer ManuLife Financial Corp, it said on Monday, as...
Kentucky Begins Easing Virus Restrictions on Businesses December 14, 2020 By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear announced Thursday that the state’s restaurants, bars, gyms and other businesses will be able to return...
Georgia to Test 800 Schools for Lead in Drinking Water December 14, 2020 Georgia is moving forward with plans to test for lead in drinking water at schools and child care facilities. The...
Court Nixes Ruling Granting Workers’ Comp Benefits to Family of Slain Alabama Worker December 14, 2020 A Jefferson County court erred when it ruled the city of Birmingham should have to pay benefits to relatives of...
South Carolina Renews Wind Pool Territory Expansion December 14, 2020 By Amy O'Connor A temporary order extending the area where South Carolina’s residual property insurance market provides insurance has been renewed for another...
Trump Administration Seeks Medical Privacy Changes December 14, 2020 By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Urged on by hospitals, doctors and patients, U.S. health officials are proposing changes to medical privacy rules that could ease...
Insuring Cannabis Summit: Capacity, Vaping Among Issues in Industry Going Forward December 14, 2020 Editor’s note: This is part of a series of articles based on panels and presentations during Insurance Journal’s 2020 Insuring...
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Goldman Stock Price Class Action December 14, 2020 By Jonathan Stempel The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s appeal in a securities fraud case that...
Bipartisan COVID Relief Plan Expected to Put State Aid, Liability Shield in Separate Bill December 13, 2020 By Laura Litvan Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi discussed developments on federal funding, including pandemic relief, during a roughly...
California Wildfire Survivors Urged to Call FEMA Helpline by Dec. 16 December 11, 2020 People with losses due to the California wildfires in Fresno, Los Angeles, Madera, Mendocino, Napa, San Bernardino, San Diego, Shasta,...