Latest Retail Headlines
All the headlines from our Retail Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Wal-Mart to Pay $90K to Settle Disability Lawsuit
Aug 19 2016 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will pay a former, long-term employee at a Wal-Mart location in Illinois, $90,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Dog Crashes Owner’s Car Into West Virginia Wal-Mart
Aug 3 2016 // Witnesses say a dog was at the wheel of a car that slowly crashed into a West Virginia Wal-Mart. Shoppers told WSAZ-TV that two dogs were in the car – one in the driver’s seat and one in the passenger’s seat...
Court Rejects Wal-Mart Shareholders’ Claim of Directors’ Liability for Mexican Bribes
Jul 25 2016 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. executives and directors persuaded a federal appeals court on Friday to reject shareholder claims that they permitted and then covered up pervasive bribery by officials at the world’s largest...
Wal-Mart Says Move to Label, Reduce Unhealthy Chemicals Affects 700 Manufacturers
Jul 22 2016 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is asking suppliers to remove formaldehyde, triclosan and six other substances from their products, part of an effort to eliminate controversial chemicals from household goods. The chemicals on the...
Cyber Thieves Working Overtime Before Credit Card Chips Curtail Their Retail Business
Apr 21 2016 // Cyber-thieves see new credit card chip technology being adopted by U.S. retailers closing a lucrative window of opportunity to steal your data. So they want to move fast. “We’ve actually seen a number of...
New York AG Probes Retailers Over Use of On-Call Shifts
Apr 15 2016 // New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, along with officials from attorneys general offices from seven other states and the District of Columbia, recently sent letters to a number of large retail companies...
Wal-Mart Settles Utah Suit Over Firing of Disarming Workers
Apr 12 2016 // A group of former Wal-Mart workers in Utah who said the company violated their right to self-defense by firing them for disarming suspected shoplifters has settled their lawsuit against the mega-chain. The workers argued...
Supreme Court Quashes Wal-Mart, Wells Fargo Bids to Upend Class Action Judgments
Apr 4 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s bid to throw out a more than $150 million class action judgment over the retailers’ treatment of workers in Pennsylvania. The justices declined...
Wal-Mart Ordered to Pay New Hampshire Pharmacist $31M in Bias Case
Jan 29 2016 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc was ordered by a federal jury in New Hampshire to pay $31.22 million to a pharmacist who claimed she was fired because of her gender and in retaliation for complaining about safety conditions. The...
Families of Shooting Victims Sue Wal-Mart Over Sale of Bullets
Jan 8 2016 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc , the world’s largest retailer, faces a lawsuit in Pennsylvania claiming store employees negligently allowed an underage, intoxicated customer to buy a box of bullets later used to commit three...
2015- Modernization in the Non-Admitted Market
Dec 9 2015 // Dallas, TX, December 9, 2015- 2015 has been a big year for mergers and acquisitions in our industry. You read consolidation news everyday…Willis to buy Towers Watson…Confie acquires another broker…Gen...
New Credit Card Chips Shift Liability to Retailers
Dec 7 2015 // On Oct. 1, 2015, many of the insurance industry’s clients took on a lot more risk, and may not even know it. The Payment Card Industry, PCI, which is the self-regulating organization that oversees everyone that...
Target Settles 2013 Data Breach Claims with Banks
Dec 3 2015 // Target Corp. will pay about $39 million to banks and credit unions to resolve losses from a 2013 holiday- season data breach, as retailers and financial institutions continue to grapple with the costs of major hacker...
Wal-Mart Accuses Insurers of Bad Faith in Tracy Morgan Case
Nov 2 2015 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has filed a lawsuit against a number of its commercial excess liability insurers. The lawsuit alleges that the insurers are delaying to pay claims related to the giant retailer’s settlement paid...
Wal-Mart Sues Insurers for Alleged Breach of Contract in Morgan Settlement Case
Oct 16 2015 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. recently filed a lawsuit against a number of its commercial excess liability insurers. The lawsuit alleges that the insurers are delaying to pay claims related to the giant retailer’s personal...
Texas All Risk General Agency Receives Special Recognition for Advancements in Technology from Nautilus Insurance Group
Oct 16 2015 // Dallas, TX, October 14 2015- Nautilus President Tom Kuzma presented the award at the company’s 30th Anniversary celebration in Whistler, British Columbia on September 29th. The carrier’s top MGA partners were...
Thornton Named Managing Director of Global Risk Partners’ Retail Broking Unit
Oct 9 2015 // Global Risk Partners Limited (GRP)* is pleased to announce that Neil Thornton will be joining as managing director of GRP’s Retail Broking business. Thornton was previously head of the Commercial Division of Bluefin...
Retailers Most Vulnerable to Cyber Breaches at Point-of-Sale
Oct 5 2015 // In justifying a reluctance to purchase cyber insurance coverage for data breaches, many retailers insist they don’t store credit card information after a sale. But experts say the headline-generating data breaches at...
NAS’ Palotay: Point-of-Sale, not Stored Data, Riskiest for Retailers
Oct 1 2015 // In justifying a reluctance to purchase cyber insurance coverage for data breaches, many retailers insist they don’t store credit card information after a sale. But experts say the headline-generating data breaches at...
Brown & Brown Revamps Retail Agency Division
Sep 18 2015 // Brown & Brown Inc. has realigned its of retail agency division into a more decentralized operating model with an eye toward increasing organic growth. Brown & Brown’s retail agency division will continue to...
