Opioid Victims Can Now File Injury Claims in Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Case January 29, 2020 By Geoff Mulvihill State and local governments have been leading the legal fight against the opioid industry, seeking payouts to help them deal...
Aadvantage Insurance Group Adds Fricke as Sales Agent January 29, 2020 Randy Fricke has joined AAdvantage Insurance Group in Glen Carbon, Ill., as a sales agent, responsible for generating prospects, developing...
Opioid Kickback Probe Cites OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma: Reuters January 29, 2020 By Mike Spector and Tom Hals OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP is the unnamed company that surfaced in criminal charging documents filed earlier this week in...
How should insurance commissioners get the job? January 29, 2020 By Patrick Wraight WARNING: This is a long one. Buckle in. Insurance Journal recently published an article detailing what action the Florida legislature...
Rhode Island Judge Says Jury Should Decide if Uber Can Be Liable for Crash January 29, 2020 A jury should determine whether Uber ought to be held responsible for a passenger’s injuries, a federal judge in Rhode...
Group Preparing to Sue EPA Over Chesapeake Bay Pollution January 29, 2020 By Brian Witte A conservation group announced Monday that it’s preparing to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to enforce the Clean...
The Hilb Group Acquires Massachusetts’ Group Brokerage Insurance Agency January 29, 2020 The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired Group Brokerage Insurance Agency LLC (GBIA). The transaction became effective January 1, 2020....
Many Global Firms Face High Coronavirus Costs Due to Insurance Exclusions January 29, 2020 By Noor Zainab Hussain, Carolyn Cohn and Sumeet Chatterjee Many global companies from hotels and airlines to industrial houses are expected to have to foot the bill for disruptions...
Risk Strategies Acquires Maryland’s Weaver Brothers Insurance January 29, 2020 Risk Strategies, a Boston, Mass.-based, privately held national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired Weaver Brothers Insurance Inc.,...
Coronavirus Impact: Growing List of Global Firms Cut Back on China Business Activities January 29, 2020 By Bloomberg News Starbucks Corp. has closed more than half of its coffee shops in mainland China — about 2,000 of them —...