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Bird Flu Found at 6th Indiana Turkey Farm
Mar 3 2022 // Avian influenza has been detected in a sixth commercial poultry flock in southern Indiana, state officials said March 1. Laboratory testing of a fourth commercial turkey flock in Dubois County has come back as...
Ship Insurer West Withdraws Cover on 2 Russian Ships Over U.S. Sanctions
Mar 3 2022 // British ship insurer West of England has withdrawn cover for two container ships operated by Russia’s FESCO Transportation Group after the vessels were listed by the U.S. Treasury as part of broader sanctions, West...
Biden Administration Prepares COVID Roadmap for Outbreaks
Mar 2 2022 // Top U.S. health officials on Wednesday laid out a national blueprint to manage COVID-19 going forward, vowing to prepare for any new variant outbreaks without shutting down schools and businesses and calling for additional...
Wisconsin McDonald’s Operator Settles EEOC Race Discrimination Claim
Mar 2 2022 // Pensec, Inc., a Wisconsin corporation which operates nine McDonald’s fast food restaurants, will pay $31,137 and furnish other relief to resolve a race discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment...
Biden’s Supreme Court Nominee Defies Expectations on Employer-Employee Cases
Mar 2 2022 // Labor unions and worker advocates have applauded President Joe Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court. Yet a look back at Jackson’s decisions in cases involving business and...
Arkansas Medical Supply Owner, CEO Indicted For Allegedly Conspiring to Defraud Workers’ Comp Insurers
Mar 2 2022 // Both the former owner of a Rogers, Arkansas-based medical supply and billing company and its former chief executive officer have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in three separate conspiracies to...
Insured Losses From February’s Windstorms in Europe Could Reach €4.5 Billion: RMS
Mar 2 2022 // Insured losses from February’s windstorms Dudley and Eunice will likely fall between 3.0 and 4.5 billion Euro (US$3.4 and US$5.1 billion), with Germany accounting for around 40% of the total loss, according to risk...
EPA Power to Curb Carbon Emissions Questioned by Supreme Court
Mar 1 2022 // Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared skeptical of the federal government’s authority to issue sweeping regulations to reduce carbon emissions from power plants in a case that could undermine...
Supreme Court Denies Christian College’s Ministerial Exception From Lawsuit… for Now
Mar 1 2022 // The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a petition by a Massachusetts Christian college seeking a religious “ministerial exception” to help it avoid a discrimination lawsuit brought by a professor denied a...
Judge Greenlights J&J Strategy to Resolve Talc Lawsuits in Bankruptcy Court
Feb 28 2022 // Johnson & Johnson can use the bankruptcy system to resolve multibillion-dollar litigation claiming its talc products cause cancer, a U.S. judge ruled on Friday, signing off on a legal maneuver that enables the company...
New Mexico Archdiocese Sues Insurers Over Sexual Abuse Coverage
Feb 28 2022 // One of the oldest Roman Catholic dioceses in the U.S. is suing four insurance companies over claims that they haven’t fulfilled contracts to provide liability coverage for sexual abuse complaints. The Archdiocese of...
Dollar General Cited for More Workplace Hazards
Feb 28 2022 // It’s more bad news for Dollar General stores, one of the largest food and household goods retailers in the country. Federal safety regulators announced that they have added another $1 million in fines against the...
U.S. Won’t Give Water to California Farmers Because of Drought
Feb 25 2022 // With California entering the third year of severe drought, federal officials said Wednesday they won’t deliver any water to farmers in the state’s major agricultural region – a decision that will force many...
Hacking Risk Shadows U.S. Business as Russia Threatens Critics
Feb 25 2022 // A swath of major American businesses — from major banks to utility companies — is preparing for possible cyberattacks against their computer networks as Russia on Thursday threatened “consequences” for...
U.S. P/C Industry Grew Surplus Despite Underwriting Loss in 2021
Feb 24 2022 // Insurance rating agency AM Best said it expects the U.S. property/casualty insurance industry to record an increase in surplus in 2021 thanks to investment income and capital gains improvements despite booking an...
People Moves: Beazley Cyber Adds Chubb’s Cohen, Promotes Larson; Scheurle Leads Burns & Wilcox’s Cannabis; Parametrix Hires Hiscox’s Wong
Feb 24 2022 // Beazley Hires Two for Cyber Services Insurer Beazley announced two senior leadership hires to its global Cyber Services team. Russ Cohen has been appointed head of U.S. Cyber Services, and Bala Larson has been promoted to...
Pandemic Brought Surge in Illegal Street Racing Across U.S.
Feb 24 2022 // Jaye Sanford, a 52-year-old mother of two, was driving home in suburban Atlanta on Nov. 21 when a man in a Dodge Challenger muscle car who was allegedly street racing crashed into her head-on, killing her. She is one of...
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions to Open New Canada Branch as Part of N. America Restructuring
Feb 24 2022 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions announced it has filed an application with regulators to establish a new Canadian branch of North American Specialty Insurance Co. (NAS) and transfer operations to that branch, including new...
Accuser Seeks Trump’s DNA, Not Deposition, in Defamation Suit
Feb 24 2022 // A lawyer for a woman who accused former President Donald Trump of raping her in the mid-1990s and then filed a defamation lawsuit against him said o Tuesday that she will not seek to depose Trump prior to trial because it...
Startup MGA Rising Edge Targets Low-Layer D&O Business
Feb 24 2022 // The co-founders of London-based Rising Edge aimed to create something different when they decided to launch a managing general agent in 2021, which focuses solely on directors and officers liability insurance. CEO Philippe...
