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New Wildfire Erupts Near Ski Resorts, Houses in Colorado
Jun 14 2018 // A wildfire erupted Tuesday in an area of Colorado known for its ski resorts, forcing the evacuation of more than 1,300 homes and marking the latest in a series of blazes that have ignited in the drought-stricken U.S....
Sizing Up the Gig Economy
Jun 14 2018 // Look around, and it seems more Americans are working outside traditional full-time jobs — whether as freelance graphic designers or independent contractors or Uber drivers. Or maybe not. A government report this week...
Cat Facility CCRIF Welcomes 2 New Members: British Virgin Islands, Montserrat
Jun 14 2018 // CCRIF SPC (formerly the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility) announced that British Virgin Islands and Montserrat have joined the facility and purchased coverage for the 2018/19 policy year, beginning June...
MGA Volante Obtains US$900M in Capacity to Support 9 Global Underwriting Teams
Jun 14 2018 // Volante Global Ltd., the new international managing general agent (MGA) platform, has successfully secured a US$900 million gross premium, multi-class, multi-territory “A+” capacity treaty agreement. The...
FEMA Assessing Tornado Damage in Connecticut
Jun 14 2018 // Federal Emergency Management Agency officials on Monday began assessing damage from a tornado and a macroburst that hit Connecticut during severe storms last month, a process that could lead to federal aid. Officials...
Trump ‘Probably’ Will Back Lifting Federal Ban on Marijuana
Jun 13 2018 // President Donald Trump said last Friday that he was inclined to support a bipartisan effort in Congress to ease the U.S. ban on marijuana, a proposal that would dramatically reshape the nation’s legal landscape for...
FBI, International Law Enforcement Disrupt Business Cyber Fraud Schemes
Jun 12 2018 // Federal law enforcement officials announced a significant coordinated effort to disrupt Business Email Compromise (BEC) schemes used to intercept and hijack wire transfers from businesses and individuals, including senior...
Deadly Crashes Involving Pedestrians on the Rise in Georgia
Jun 12 2018 // So far this year, 111 pedestrians have been killed on state roads – an increase of 16 percent from this time last year, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation. In 2017, 260 pedestrians were struck and...
U.S. Allows China’s Oceanwide Purchase of Insurer Genworth
Jun 11 2018 // A U.S. panel that reviews foreign investments for potential national security threats has approved China Oceanwide Holdings Group’s purchase of insurer Genworth Financial, the two companies said on Saturday. The...
Air Ambulances’ Sky-High Charges Leave Reimbursement Gaps, Lawsuits
Jun 11 2018 // When three-year-old West Cox’s fever hit 107 degrees, doctors called a helicopter. Hours earlier, the toddler, who’d been prescribed an antibiotic for a suspected ear infection, was at home in Princeton, West...
May 2018 Saw Severe Weather in Nearly Every Global Region: Aon Report
Jun 8 2018 // Four separate severe weather outbreaks swept across the United States during the month of May, which led to extensive hail, wind damage and flash flooding, according to Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe...
North Dakota Construction Firm to Pay $59K to Settle Sexual Harassment Suit
Jun 8 2018 // A North Dakota civil construction company operating in Minot will pay $59,000 to settle a sexual harassment and constructive discharge lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The...
Insurance Cutback Among Reasons Europeans Withdrawing from Iranian Oil Market
Jun 7 2018 // European refiners are winding down oil purchases from Iran, closing the door on a fifth of the OPEC member’s crude exports after the United States imposed sanctions on Tehran, company and trading sources said. The...
NOAA Expects Sea Level Rise to Produce Record Coastal Flooding This Year
Jun 7 2018 // Break out the galoshes. The projected increase in high tide flooding in 2018 may be as much as 60 percent higher across U.S. coastlines compared to typical flooding about 20 years ago, according to scientists at the...
Profile: Major Growth Plans Ahead for Schinnerer Group – Now Rebranded as ‘Victor’
Jun 7 2018 // Big changes are ahead at The Schinnerer Group, a managing general underwriter (MGU), which is getting a new name – Victor – and has some major expansion plans. From its current premium base of $1.2 billion, Victor has...
Hawaii Insurance Agent Busy Sorting out Coverage Mess from Lava Flows
Jun 6 2018 // It could be an understatement to say Amber Lopez, principal at Pacific Island Insurance LLC in Hawaii, has been busy over the past month as the island state’s erupting Kilauea sends lava flows throughout...
Lloyd’s Index Shows $92B at Risk in North American Cities Each Year
Jun 6 2018 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Cities in the U.S. and Canada stand to lose $92.96 billion per year to risks like market crash, cyber attack and flood, an index from Lloyd’s released today shows. Lloyd’s newly...
Co-Pay Tactic by Benefit Managers Credited with Cutting Prescription Drug Prices
Jun 6 2018 // A recently adopted tactic by U.S. health plans to limit the financial assistance drugmakers provide directly to consumers for prescription medicines is taking a toll on drug prices, according to a new analysis released on...
Congress Could Shrink Federal Insurance Office
Jun 5 2018 // Congressional efforts to curtail the federal government’s involvement in insurance regulation continue this week as a House panel is scheduled to consider a measure to trim the sails of the Federal Insurance Office...
Energy Sector Cyber Insurance, Cybersecurity Struggles Leave Taxpayers, Customers Exposed
Jun 4 2018 // Insurers are limiting how much coverage energy companies can buy to protect themselves against a major attack by hackers, potentially leaving investors, customers and taxpayers on the hook for sizable losses. Brit...
