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How Cruise Ticket Legal Language May Foil Class Action Suits
Apr 30 2020 // After two passengers on their luxury cruise tested positive for Covid-19 in March, Emilio and Barbara Hernandez were so frantic to get off the ship, they wrote a note to the captain. The Costa Luminosa sailed on with them...
Markel Estimates COVID-19 Losses of $325 Million
Apr 30 2020 // Diverging from strategies of some competitors, Markel Corp. established a big reserve for a chunk of its potential COVID-19 exposure for the entire year—putting up $325 million for direct potential losses. The holding...
NTSB: Failure to Heed Warnings Led to Missouri Duck Boat Sinking
Apr 30 2020 // The primary cause of the sinking of a tourist-carrying duck boat on a Missouri lake in July 2018, in which 17 people were killed, was the continued operation of the vessel during severe weather, despite severe weather...
Consumer Groups Oppose Immunity for Businesses From Coronavirus Lawsuits
Apr 30 2020 // U.S. consumer advocates are urging Congress to resist growing demands by companies for protections from coronavirus-related lawsuits as states start to ease pandemic restrictions and businesses begin to reopen. Led by...
U.S. Economy Hit Hard in Q1 But Worse Contraction Still to Come
Apr 29 2020 // The U.S. economy contracted in the first quarter at its sharpest pace since the Great Recession as stringent measures to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus almost shut down the country, ending the longest expansion...
Company Settles Texas Disability Accommodation Suit for $66K
Apr 29 2020 // Assisted Living Concepts LLC, doing business as Enlivant, a national owner and operator of senior living facilities, has settled a federal disability discrimination lawsuit related to a facility in Dallas, Texas. The...
Program Management Specialist R&Q Receives Equity Investment of $100M
Apr 29 2020 // Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings Ltd., the global program management and legacy acquisitions specialist, announced it has received an equity investment of US$100 million, which is designed to help it capitalize on...
Beazley Expands M&A Insurance Team with 5 New Underwriters, Geographies
Apr 29 2020 // Specialist insurer Beazley has expanded its mergers & acquisitions (M&A) team with new locations and the appointment of five new underwriters. This follows several years of continuous growth in underwriting...
Amid Unemployment Surge, Millions of Remote and Essential Workers Plug Away
Apr 29 2020 // Garbage haulers still collect trash. Cops are on the beat. Couriers deliver food and packages. Insurance agents work from home. The coronavirus crisis would appear to have put the entire U.S. economy on ice. Twenty-six...
Insurers Promote Federal Pandemic Insurance Plan to Congress
Apr 29 2020 // The U.S. insurance industry is promoting the idea of an insurance plan backed by the federal government that would help businesses that in the future suffer losses from a pandemic, people familiar with the effort told...
Cruise Ship Passengers Seeking COVID-19 Class Action Suits Face Uphill Legal Battle
Apr 29 2020 // After two passengers on their luxury cruise tested positive for Covid-19 in March, Emilio and Barbara Hernandez were so frantic to get off the ship, they wrote a note to the captain. The Costa Luminosa sailed on with them...
Unions Push Back on Trump Plan to Order Meat Processing Plants to Stay Open
Apr 29 2020 // President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered meat-processing plants to stay open to protect the food supply in the United States, despite concerns about coronavirus outbreaks, drawing a backlash from unions that said at-risk...
PERILS Releases Industry Exposure Database 2020, Now Including Australia Motor
Apr 28 2020 // PERILS AG, the independent Zurich-based company that provides industry-wide catastrophe insurance data, has released its Industry Exposure Database 2020. The database contains up-to-date information about property sums...
Marsh JLT Specialty Expands Renewable Energy Team in UK, U.S., and Asia
Apr 28 2020 // Insurance broker Marsh announced key leadership appointments within Marsh JLT Specialty’s Renewable Energy team. Oliver Holme has joined Marsh in the newly created role of UK and U.S. Offshore Wind leader, reporting...
Texas AG Accuses Largest Egg Producer in US of Price Gouging
Apr 28 2020 // Texas’ attorney general has accused the nation’s largest egg producer of price gouging during the coronavirus pandemic. A lawsuit filed by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton alleges that Cal-Maine Foods...
Analysis: Insurers Feel Rising Legal Heat for COVID-19 Business Interruption Exclusions
Apr 28 2020 // Daniel Duckett, owner of the Lazy Claire patisserie in Belfast, was hoping for an insurance payout of up to 100,000 pounds ($123,460.00) to cover losses during the coronavirus lockdown. Now he fears for the future as he...
Smithfield South Dakota Plant Eyes Reopening as U.S. Issues Meatpacking Guidance
Apr 27 2020 // South Dakota’s governor on April 27 said she hopes Smithfield’s Sioux Falls pork processing plant can reopen soon, a day after U.S. labor regulators urged the meat industry to adopt certain measures to prevent...
Suit Filed Against Smithfield Over Working Conditions at Missouri Plant
Apr 27 2020 // A lawsuit filed on behalf of workers at a Smithfield Food plant in Missouri claims conditions at the plant are putting workers and the public at risk of contracting the coronavirus. The lawsuit, filed on April 23 by an...
Supreme Court Backs Insurers Over $12 Billion in Obamacare ‘Risk Corridor’ Payments
Apr 27 2020 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of health insurers seeking $12 billion from the federal government under a program set up by the Obamacare law aimed at encouraging them to offer medical coverage to...
Coronavirus Business Interruption Insurance Claimants Seek to Consolidate Lawsuits
Apr 27 2020 // Two groups of plaintiffs — one in Philadelphia, the other in Chicago — are asking federal courts to consolidate lawsuits filed by businesses that are seeking coverage for business-interruption losses they claim are...
