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Home-Share Site Airbnb Loses Round in Fight Against City Regulations
Nov 9 2016 // Airbnb Inc.’s claim that it’s just a conduit for user-generated content was rejected by a judge who said the company may not be able to duck a San Francisco law punishing it when hosts book units that...
Auditor: Kentucky Misused Funds from State Insurance Tax
Nov 7 2016 // The Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program Fund is supposed to be spent on training for police officers. But state lawmakers have raided its coffers for other purposes so often it forced officials to increase a tax on...
Lloyd’s Innovation Awards Go to Aon, Beazley, Cromar, Hiscox, Tokio Marine Kiln
Nov 3 2016 // Lloyd’s of London recently announced the winners of its 2016 Innovation Awards. Beazley, Cromar, Hiscox and Tokio Marine Kiln each picked up awards for innovative products or new ways of working. Aon won most...
Review of 14 Studies Identifies Risk Factors for Kids’ Bicycle Injuries
Oct 25 2016 // Kids of lower socioeconomic status, those riding in rural areas, and those riding mostly on the sidewalk have higher risk of injury than others, according to a new review. Not surprisingly, injuries related to motor...
SILVER Best Agency to Work For 2016 – East Rogers & Gray Insurance
Oct 24 2016 // Best Agency to Work For – SILVER South Dennis, Massachusetts Rogers & Gray Insurance Rogers & Gray Insurance, a South Dennis, Mass., headquartered independent insurance agency, has a vision shaped by one...
Is Training the Key to Unlocking Analytics Talent?
Oct 24 2016 // Analytics and big data are here to stay. Already creating monumental shifts in the business world, today’s analytical advancements are leading an evolution on how people think about information, track data, shop for...
University and San Diego PD Join Forces to Boost Teen DUI Prevention
Oct 20 2016 // Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine will join forces with the San Diego Police Department to reduce alcohol-impaired driving among San Diego youth between the ages of 15 to 20. Helped by...
10 Takeaways from the Future of Insurance and InsureTech Connect Conference
Oct 17 2016 // You’ve probably heard. There is tremendous investor interest right now in technology-first insurance startups, or insurtech firms. The first InsureTech Connect Conference in Las Vegas in early October attracted an...
State Taking Steps to Protect Washington Nuclear Site Workers
Oct 14 2016 // Washington state asked a federal judge this week to issue an injunction requiring the U.S. Department of Energy and its contractor to take steps to protect workers at a major nuclear waste storage site. Washington state...
Older Teen Drivers Remain High Risk for Crashes Despite Graduated Licensing Laws: Report
Oct 12 2016 // While states have made progress in reducing teen driver-involved traffic crashes and deaths over the past decade, teen drivers are still 1.6 times more likely to be involved in a fatal crash than their adult counterparts,...
Michigan Officials Seeking Food Safety Education And Training Grant Proposals
Oct 11 2016 // Michigan agriculture officials are seeking proposals for food safety education and training grants. The Michigan Department of Agriculture & Rural Development says grants from the Food Safety Education Fund are...
Last Evacuation Orders Finally Lifted at Louisiana Sinkhole Site
Oct 10 2016 // More than four years since a massive sinkhole that in 2013 swallowed trees in Assumption Parish and forced more than 300 residents from their homes now no longer poses a risk to the public. Assumption Parish officials...
Chicago Insurance Agent Joins National Board of InVEST
Oct 10 2016 // Insurance industry classroom-to-career education program, InVEST, has added Charles Hilson to its national board as an agent member. Hilson is president of the Talent Pipeline Division of Risk Management Solutions of...
Betting on the Insurance Industry of Tomorrow at InsureTech Conference
Oct 6 2016 // There was a great turnout for the future of the insurance industry this week in Las Vegas. The occasion was the first InsureTech Connect Conference, which brought together an estimated 1,500 tech entrepreneurs, investors...
Lien Consolidation Court, Fraud Part of Focus at California Comp Conference
Oct 5 2016 // The state’s top two labor officials were understandably high on the impact they expect two bills recently signed by Gov. Jerry Brown will have on California’s workers’ comp system and bad actors who have...
North Dakota Nonprofit to Open $6M Heavy Equipment Safety Training Facility
Oct 5 2016 // The North Dakota Safety Council is beginning construction on a nearly 23,500-square-foot, hands-on heavy equipment safety training facility in Bismarck. The Bismarck Tribune reported that until now, companies have had to...
CoverHound’s Cyber Insurance Site Now Open for Small Businesses
Oct 5 2016 // Two weeks after unveiling insurance offerings for small businesses on its online platform, CoverHound has launched another website—CyberPolicy.com—with cyber protection tools for a similar target market. Initially...
To Minimize Cyber Risk, Organizations Should Focus on Education
Oct 4 2016 // Information security is not an easily digestible topic. The “what” is simple: securing information, but the “how” is where it gets tricky. Cyber criminals are cunning and are constantly coming up...
Auditor Says Kentucky Misused State Insurance Tax Funds
Oct 3 2016 // The Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program Fund is supposed to be spent on training for police officers. But state lawmakers have raided its coffers for other purposes so often it forced officials to increase a tax on...
New York Proposes Cybersecurity Regulation for Insurers, Banks
Oct 3 2016 // The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has proposed cybersecurity regulation for financial services companies that aims to protect New York state’s financial services industry from an increasing...
