Monthly Archives: <span>June 2022</span>

Making the Business Case for Upgrading Your Ease of Use

This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. If you look around at your agency, MGA, or carrier processes for compliance, contracting, and other manual old-school processes and think, “I’m over it,” then this one’s for you. AgentSync …

U.S. Supreme Court Sides With Doctors Challenging Opioid Convictions

The U.S. Supreme Court on June 27 made it harder for prosecutors to win convictions of doctors accused of running “pill mills” and excessively prescribing opioids and other addictive drugs, by requiring the government to prove that defendants knew their …

3 Killed as Train Hits Car in Northern California

Three people were killed when an Amtrak commuter train smashed into a car in Northern California, authorities said. The crash occurred at around 1 p.m. on Sunday in Brentwood, about an hour’s drive southeast of San Francisco, the California Highway …

California Assembly Endorses Plan to Allow Citizens to Sue Those Who Provide Dangerous Firearms

A first-in-the-nation law that enables private citizens to sue manufacturers of “dangerous” firearms passed on Monday in the Assembly. The bill, backed by Gov. Newsom, returns to the Senate for consideration later in the week. Sen. Bob Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, …

Hertz Makes Settlement Offers to End False Arrest Lawsuits

Hertz Corp. has offered to settle about three dozen cases filed by renters that say they were wrongly arrested for auto theft, the company said.The settlement push comes after Colleen Batcheler took over as general counsel for the rental company. …

People Moves: CoreLogic Names Dodd CEO; CAC Specialty Adds 4 to Senior Living Team; McCann Joins Lockton Re; Canopius Appoints Lee General Counsel

CoreLogic Names Dodd CEO Patrick Dodd has been appointed president and chief executive officer of CoreLogic, the global property information, analytics and data company. Dodd was named interim chief executive officer in January 2022. Prior to assuming the top job …

Supreme Court Backs Football Coach Fired After Praying on the Field

A divided US Supreme Court ruled in favor of a high school football coach who lost his job for conducting post-game prayers on the 50-yard line in a decision that buttresses religious rights and reduces the authority of public-school officials …

Medical Society Accuses Insurers of Using ‘Junk Science’ to Deny Covid Business Claims

The medical profession in New Hampshire is accusing the insurance industry of using “junk science” in justifying its denials of Covid-related business insurance claims. In an amicus brief in a case between a hotel chain and eight insurers, the New …

Business Moves: Sandbox Invests in Florida Insurance Data Firm Confianza

Florida-based Confianza Inc., which provides data analytics and machine learning to insurance agents, announced that it had closed its round of seed funding, with most of the capital coming from Sandbox Insurtech Ventures. The company, co-founded in 2020 by Jeffrey …

U.S. Supreme Court Again Nixes Bayer Challenge to Weedkiller Suits

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected another Bayer AG bid to dismiss litigation alleging that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer as the German pharmaceutical and chemical giant tries to avoid potentially billions of dollars in damages. The justices turned …