National News for July 2019
- Space Insurance Premiums Could Double After European Vega Rocket Crash
- Allstate Says Q2 Results Reflect Strategy Momentum
- Businesses Believe Cyber Insurance Covers More Than It Does: Survey
- University Lawsuit Accuses Big Retailers of Infringing ‘Reinvented’ Light Bulb Patent
- Capital One Investors Wary of Reputational Impact of Data Breach
- Congress Looks to Jump Start Stalled Driverless Vehicle Bill
- Moody’s Acquisition Could Signal Shift in Pricing of Climate Risk: Viewpoint
- Why Agencies Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Insurtech and Need to Adopt It – Now
- Sompo Global Risk, VGM Insurance to Offer Golf Course, Country Club Coverage
- With $100M in New Financing, Digital Agency Hippo Plans Further U.S. Expansion
- U.S. Urges Ships to Keep Tracking Devices Turned on for Safety, Transparency
- Captives Remain Profitable, Outperform Commercial Insurers, Reports A.M. Best
- Misdiagnosis a Leading Cause of Medical Malpractice Claims, Studies Show
- Viewpoint: What Insurance Industry Should Acknowledge About Small Business Cyber
- Capital One Reports Data Breach of 100 Million Accounts; Suspect Arrested
- AXA XL, Vindati to Offer Ocean Cargo Insurance Via Online Platform
- High Levels of Global Insurtech Investments Continued During Q2: WTW
- Schools, Lawmakers, Tech Firms Trying to Curb Rising Cyberbullying
- Alex and Ani Jeweler Alleges Lending Gender Bias by Bank
- Judge Reduces $2 Billion Roundup Jury Verdict to $86 Million
- Insurer Pulls Plug on Socially-Conscious Investment Platform Targeting Millennials
- From Confined Spaces to Big Buildings, Drones Take On Riskiest Jobs
- Costs, Underinsurance Bigger Challenge Than Uninsured in U.S. Health System
- Amazon Should Be Held Partially Responsible for Third Party Sellers: Viewpoint
- Allergan Halts Sale of Textured Breast Implants Linked to Cancer by FDA
- Schwab to Buy USAA Investment Management Firm’s Assets for $1.8 Billion
- Data-Deprived Auto Insurers Cautious About Discounts for Advanced Safety Features
- Wildlife Protection Rezoning Could Mean Flood Insurance Aid for 900 Coastal Mansions
- Lawmakers Request McDonald’s Provide Update on Anti-Harassment Policy
- MGAguard to Offer Specialty Insurance Products Via Technology Platform
- Why Chinese Crypto Entrepreneur Was No-Show for $4.5M Buffett Charity Lunch
- ProSight Prices IPO at $14 per Share
- Chubb Q2 Saw Net Income Dip, Premium Growth
- First Half Natural Disasters Cost Insurers $20B, Down 26% from 18-Year Average: Aon
- Lyft Vows to Make Driverless Data Public
- Democrats File Bills in House, Senate to Legalize, Tax Marijuana
- J&J Questions Methods Used by Scientists Who Claim Baby Powder Had Asbestos
- AIG Creates Sustainability Post; Names Waldner as Chief Officer
- U.S. Announces $5 Billion Fine Against Facebook, Other Privacy Settlement Terms
- Insurance Agency Mergers Hit Near-Record in First Half 2019
- Key Finance Committee Senators Unveil Bipartisan Drug Price Bill
- Ensurance Expands Terrorism, Sabotage Coverage to US; Hires 2 New Underwriters
- Congress Passes Sept. 11 Victims Compensation Fund
- Roundup Not Only Monsanto Legal Woe For Bayer; PCB Claims Still Coming
- Largest U.S. Data Breach Settlements with Government Include 3 Insurers
- Allianz Promotes Castriotta to North American Financial Product Development Head
- More Funds Sought for Those Exposed to Radiation from Nuclear Weapons Test
- Travelers Profit Up 6.3% in Q2 on Lower Catastrophe Losses, Higher Investments
- U.S. Close to $5 Billion Penalty Against Facebook Over Cambridge Analytica Data
- Equifax’s $700 Million Data Breach Settlement Criticized
- Sage Program Underwriters Offers Workers’ Comp for Shooting Sports Industry
- Insurer Innovation Comes Under the Rating Agency Microscope
- Big ‘I’ Agents’ Group Names NAIC’s Eilers-Bowser to Capitol Hill Team
- AIG Names Ling Chief Human Resources Officer
- Equifax’s $700 Million Data Breach Settlement Includes $300 Million for Consumers
- Google to Pay $11 Million to Settle Age Bias Employment Claims
- Chamber Legal Study Says Private Suits Over Privacy Don’t Help Consumers
- Senate Vows to Vote This Week on Sept. 11 Victims Fund
- Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Expands Commercial Auto into Delaware, Kentucky, D.C.
- Going to Monte Carlo for the Rendezvous? What’s It Like?
- Judge Permits Short-Term Health Plans in Blow to Obamacare Supporters
- Nuclear Industry Looks to Save Money Under Reduced U.S. Safety Oversight
- Expert Outlines 5 School Insurance Liability Issues to Watch
- Judge Supports Reducing $2 Billion Damages in Bayer Roundup Glyphosate Case
- Environmentalists Lose Bid to Restore EPA Ban on Chlorpyrifos Pesticide
- Report: California Wildfires Will Get Worse, Blame Climate Change
- Specialty Insurer ProSight Hopes to Raise $140 Million with IPO
- No Workers’ Compensation Loss History? No Problem, Says Valen Analytics
- Cellphones Still a Flight Danger on Some Boeing Jets
- Charles Schwab Eyes Purchase of USAA Wealth Management, Brokerage Units: WSJ
- Government Data Shows How Opioid Epidemic Spread Across America
- Boeing Creates $50M Crash Victims’ Fund; Hires Feinberg to Oversee
- FAA Hit for New Delay in Remote Drone Tracking Program
- Senators’ Flood Insurance Measure Includes Premium Cap, Mitigation, Claims Reforms
- Insurance AI Firm RiskGenius Reports Additional Financing
- Financial World’s Blockchain Euphoria Gives Way to Pragmatism as Projects Stall
- Digital Workers’ Compensation Provider Pie Insurance Enters 4 Additional States
- Senators Want to Reconsider Lawsuit Immunity for Google and Internet Giants
- J&J Vows to Overcome Baby Powder, Opioid Liability Claims Against It
- Markel Says It Is Resolving Suits Filed by Fired CatCo Executives
- Workers’ Comp Underwriting Looks Strong for 2019 But Rates Are Dropping: Fitch
- Been to Monte Carlo for the Rendezvous? What’s It Like?
- Alphabet Has High Hopes for Its Drone Traffic Control App OpenSky
- Chubb Adds Small Business Coverage for Food Service Industry to Digital Platform
- Study Links Stricter Gun Laws to Lower Risk of Kids’ Deaths by Firearms
- Dunlap to Head Willis Towers Watson’s Construction Broking in North America
- Bayer Vows Appeal After Judge Cuts Roundup Jury Award to $25M from $80M
- Court Blocks Trump Rule on Employer Religious Exemption for Contraceptive Coverage
- AIG Names Accenture’s Parker as Information Security Deputy Chief
- U.S. Opens Criminal Probe Into J&J Denials of Cancer Risks from Baby Powder
- Facebook Facing $5 Billion FTC Fine Over Cambridge Analytica Data Sharing
- House Democrats Eye Possible Ban on Big Tech Firms Offering Financial Services
- Motorists Insurance, BrickStreet Mutual Rebrand Together as Encova Mutual
- U.S. Boosting Marijuana Crop Available for Research
- Demand for Transactional Risk Insurance High and Going Higher: Marsh
- Markel Launches Standalone EPLI Policy for PEOs
- Ethereum Blockchain Founder Among Those Worried About Facebook’s Libra Currency
- Clearsurance Offers Consumers Insurance Recommendations While Protecting Data
- Aon Promotes Ronda to President of U.S. Reinsurance
- DNA Testing Service Left Client Health Records Open to Public
- Insurance Industry’s Talent Hunt. It’s Time to Turn Up the Volume: Viewpoint
- Harvard University Invests in Litigation Finance Fund
- Expert: Sophisticated Cannabis Operations Want Higher Limits, Customizations
- How Lawyers, Not Plaintiffs, Wind Up the Winners in Mass Tort Lawsuits
- Why First Notice of Loss Is Key to Customer Satisfaction: Viewpoint
- For Best in Insurance Industry Marketing, the Awards Go to…
- Trump Administration Halts Plan to Sideline Pharmacy Benefit Managers
- IBM Joins Call to Trim Liability Shield for Google, Facebook, Other Internet Platforms
- It No Longer Takes a Big Storm to Produce High Tide Flooding in Coastal Communities
- J&J Gets New Trial After Jury Awards $417 Million in Baby Powder Talc Suit
- Lockton Affinity to Administer New Standalone Cyber Liability Product
- Claims Industry Consolidation Continues with Sedgwick’s Purchase of York
- Volvo’s Autonomous Trucking Offer Bundles Pilots, Insurance, Services
- Senator Graham Wants to Limit Internet Firms’ Liability Protections
- Kemper Moving $16 Million of Collector Vehicle Business to Hagerty
- Judges Frustrated with Failure of Congress to Settle Obamacare Issues
- Judge Likely to Reduce $80 Million Bayer Roundup Verdict
- Nationwide Offers Independent Agents a Commercial Insurance Digital Storefront
- Insurance Trainers & Educators Elect American Integrity’s Nicholson as President
- Westcott Named President of Berkley Re America
- Ridehailing Blamed for Rise in Traffic Congestion, Deaths
- ProWriters Adds New Companies, Features to Cyber Coverage Platform
- Research Shows Suburban Population Near Natural Gas Storage in 6 States
- Court Halts Trump Plan to Require Drug Prices in TV Ads
- Consultant Sees Larger, Fewer P/C Insurance Agencies Going Forward
- Cambridge Analytica Data Scientist Drops Defamation Suit Against Facebook
- Brit Global Adds AIG, NAS Cyber Specialists to U.S. Cyber & Technology Practice
- Affordable Care Act’s Fate Could Rest with Appellate Court’s View on Technical Matters
- Court Holds Amazon Liable for Products of Other Vendors Sold on Its Site
- The Value to Insurance Agencies of Value-Added Services for Clients
- Las Vegas Shooting Victim’s Parents Sue Gunmakers Over Guns Altered by Bump-Stocks
- Boeing Offers $100 Million, Beyond Lawsuits, to 737 Max Crash Victims
- How Workplace Violence Costs Businesses Before and After It Happens
- Agency Data Ownership Can Be Tricky in Age of Texting
- Data Breaches That Take Minutes to Occur, Often Require Months to Discover
- Judge Rules Andy Warhol’s ‘Transformative’ Art Did Not Violate Photographer’s Copyright
- Vatican Defends Secrecy of Catholic Confessions Amid Priest Sex Scandals
- Trump Administration to Ease Rules on Truckers’ Maximum Hours on Road
- New Hanover Prestige Brand Targets High-Value Personal Lines Market
- Reinsurers Offering Better Prices, Capacity for Preferred Trading Partners: Willis Re
- Liberty Mutual Completes $240 Million Limestone Re Transaction
- Consumer Group Warns of Off-Road Vehicle Fatalities as July 4 Fun Begins
- Helmet Maker Unveils Latest Safe Headgear for Youth Football
- Paying Gig Workers Emerges as ‘Getaround’ Tactic to Defeat Employee Lawsuits
- FDA Says 3 Deaths Linked to Recalled Heart Device
- Great American Adds Insurance Program for Kona Ice Franchise
- Sale of Applied Underwriters Still Under Review; Cayman Islands Insurer Likely Involved
- 30% of Disaster Claims Settled After Desk Audit Using Munich Re Remote Tool, Images
- Berkley Taps AIG’s Fenster to Lead New Berkley Prime Transportation Division
- Motel 6 Settles Another Class Action Over Giving Guest Lists to Immigration Agents
- Buffett Donates $3.6 Billion of Berkshire Stock to Five Charities
- Citing Climate Change, Chubb Will Limit Insuring, Investing in Coal Plants
- Chemours Suit Claims DuPont’s Clean-Up Liability Estimates ‘Spectacularly Wrong’
- InsuraGuest, Venture Insurance to Offer Accident, Property Coverage to Hotel Guests
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