The coronavirus pandemic contributed to a spike in workplace lawsuits in 2020 and the number is only expected to grow in 2021, according to legal experts. At the same time, the incoming Biden Administration is expected to more aggressively enforce …
Insurance Office of America has acquired Enterprise Risk Strategies LLC in Denver, Colo. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Enterprise Risk Strategies is a benefits consulting firm. IOA is an insurance agency headquartered in Longwood, Fla., with more than …
The board of directors for Union Mutual Insurance Company voted at their December meeting to appoint Philip Lambert to be the company’s vice president of Information Technology and Operations. Lambert starts with the company in the beginning of January. Lambert …
Markel Corporation has hired Trevor Gandy as managing director for Talent, Diversity and Inclusion, effective January 1, 2021. In this new role, Gandy will further shape the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion strategy for its global workforce. He will work …
Seven people are facing felony charges after at least two federal buildings in Philadelphia were vandalized on New Year’s Eve and the discovery of what police said were Molotov cocktails and other suspicious devices. Officers reported spotting about 50 people, …
Marsh, the insurance broker and risk adviser, has launched a dedicated Sharing Economy & Mobility (SE&M) industry group in the UK & Ireland. Led by Sam Tiltman, the group brings together over 25 sector specialists encompassing insurance placement and risk …
Insured losses for the Australian bushfires of 2019/2020 rose to A$1.866 billion (US$1.441 billion), according to estimates issued by PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organization that provides industry-wide catastrophe insurance data. This fourth and final industry loss estimate is a slight …
Lower investment yields, adverse catastrophe loss development, higher loss cost trends, concerns over climate change, and, of course, the pandemic coalesced to bring some of the sharpest price increases in recent memory during the Jan. 1 reinsurance renewals, according to …
Broker/adviser TigerRisk announced it has appointed Glyn Ridpath a partner in the company’s fast-growing Casualty Practice. Based in London, he will report to James Few, TigerRisk’s CEO UK. Ridpath started his insurance industry career in the claims department of Aon …
The Professional Insurance Agents of Wisconsin (PIAW) has hired Natalie White as the association’s new communications director. White joins PIAW after several years of working in the Wisconsin Legislature. In addition to absorbing the media and marketing functions of PIAW, …
