National News for January 2021
- National General Expands Beyond Floods Product Into 13 Additional States
- SolarWinds Attackers Focused on Cyber and Tech Firms
- Cryptocurrency Crime Drops in 2020 but ‘Decentralized Finance’ Losses Rise: Study
- AM Best Upgrades Credit Ratings of Kemper P/C Group and Its Subsidiaries
- Coalition Adds 5 Hires to Middle Market Production Underwriting Team
- Low-Level Jobs, Less School Could Mean Costly Auto Policies
- Industry Underestimating COVID-19 Biz Interruption Losses: RenRe CEO
- W.R. Berkley Reports Record Q4 Net Income
- M&T Bank’s Batt, Beazley’s Ingrassia Join AmTrust Cyber Insurance Team
- USAA, Serving Military and Veterans, Enters Small Business Insurance Market
- Trump Health Secretary Rule Slows COVID Court Claims Against Nursing Homes
- Judge Rules Former CBS Shareholders Can Sue Over ViacomCBS Merger
- Before Starting an Independent Agency, There Are Many Questions to Weigh
- Airlines Seek WHO Approval of Quarantine-Free Travel After Vaccines
- Title Insurer First American to Exit P/C Insurance with Transfers to Safeco, Heritage
- What Biden’s First Year Might Mean for Job Creation
- Investor Sues Drugmaker Astrazeneca Over Coronavirus Vaccine Testing Claims
- Volkswagen Wants U.S. Supreme Court to Nix ‘Staggering’ Diesel Claims by Counties
- Allstate to Sell Life Insurance Company to Blackstone for $2.8B to Grow in P/C
- Pandemic-Related Business Interruption, Cyber Top Business Risks for 2021: Allianz
- Auto Theft Jumped in 2020
- Brown & Brown Revenues, Profit Jump in Q4
- Consumers Open to Sharing Personal Data with Insurers But Worry About Data Security
- Bankruptcy Judge Approves Weinstein Co. Plan With $17M for Sex Abuse Claims
- WestPro Insurance Partners with Obsidian on Bars, Taverns, Restaurants Program
- Biden Withdraws Trump Chicken Slaughter Rule Industry Says Is Safe
- Top Insurance Regulatory Developments of 2020: Part 2
- The Results Are In: How NFL QBs/Insurance Salesmen Mahomes, Rodgers, Mayfield Rate
- Insurance Journal’s 2021 Agency Salary Survey Open
- Wrongful Death Suit Filed Against NRA, Gunmaker, Shooter Over Synagogue Attack
- DuPont, Chemours Reach Pact Over Liability for ‘Forever Chemicals’ PFAs Pollution
- MyFloodInsurance.com Expands Flood Tool to Real Estate Agents, Homebuyers
- Foley’s SPAC in $7.3B Deal to Take Blackstone’s Benefits Firm Alight Public
- Nearly Two-Thirds of Global Catastrophe Economic Losses Unaddressed by Insurance
- United Airlines CEO Urges Employers to Mandate COVID-19 Vaccines
- Insurer Hallmark Financial Explores Splitting Off Its Specialty Commercial Lines Business
- Attune to Offer General, Professional Liability Products Through Hiscox
- Biden Orders OSHA to Step Up COVID Workplace Safety Guidance, Enforcement
- How do NFL QBs Rodgers, Mahomes and Mayfield Rate as Insurance Salesmen?
- CoStar and Warburg Are Said to Be Competing to Buy CoreLogic: Bloomberg
- Prioritizing High-Risk Individuals for Vaccines May Not Be Necessary, Research Says
- Top Insurance Regulatory Developments of 2020: Part 1
- Biden’s Climate Accord Move Welcomed by World Leaders
- Banker Enns to Succeed Retiring Chubb CFO Bancroft
- U.S. Charges 2 Oil Workers With Allowing Gulf of Mexico Oil Spills
- Travelers Insurance Profit Soared in Q4 on Fewer Claims, Investment Gains
- Trump Order Allows Government to Block Use of U.S. Cloud Services in Foreign Countries
- 2020 Could Make 2021 the Year of Insurance Agency E&O Lawsuits
- Why Now May Be the Best Time to Start an Insurance Agency: Viewpoint
- Supreme Court Rejects Merck’s Bid to Reinstate $2.5B Damage Award Against Rival
- ProSight to Become Private Company After Being Acquired by Investors
- Insurance Agency M&A Deals Surged 20% in Year of Pandemic: OPTIS
- Safety Agency Orders Ford to Recall 3 Million Vehicles Over Takata Air Bags
- Supreme Court Hears Baltimore’s Climate Change Damages Claim Against Energy Firms
- Specialty Insurer Hallmark Financial CEO Anand Resigns; AM Best Maintains ‘A-‘ Rating
- Startup Loop Wins Funding for Fairer Auto Insurance Rating Model That Uses AI
- Business Startups Surged Amid Covid-19 Pandemic
- Insurance Veterans Lead Confianza, Big Data Analytics Startup for Smaller Insurers
- How Climate Change May Affect Hurricane Risk and Losses: AIR, Brookings, AXIS
- Applied Specialty Underwriters Names Black to Lead Middle Market Surplus Lines
- Lawmakers Sought to Ban Facial Software Being Used to ID Capitol Attackers
- AM Best, Moody’s Rate Personal Lines Insurance Market Outlook as Stable
- Expecting the Unexpected: Cyber Lessons from COVID and What Could Be Ahead
- Delivery Company Offers Gig Workers $25 to Get COVID Vaccine
- Lemonade Eyes Sale of 3 Million Shares in Secondary Offering
- As Production Declines, Coal Miner Fatalities at Historic Low
- Outgoing Administration Moves to Lift Safety Restrictions for Some Autonomous Vehicles
- Moment of Change: How the Insurance Industry Can Bridge the Diversity Gap, Be an Ally
- American Family Insurance to Acquire Small Business Insurtech Bold Penguin
- How COVID Effect on Workers’ Compensation Claims Has Varied by State, Industry
- Applied Systems to Acquire EZLynx, Comparative Rating, Agency Management Vendor
- Marsh Unveils 15 Cybersecurity Vendors Insurers Rate Most Effective
- For Brown & Brown, Acquiring CoverHound Accelerates Tech Modernization Efforts
- Major Insurers Temporarily Halt Political Contributions in Wake of Capitol Attack
- Driving Declined But Traffic Deaths Rose 13% After Lockdowns Ended
- Study: Masks, Distancing, Testing Shown As Effective As Vaccines on College Campuses
- U.S. Automated Vehicles Testing Program Expands to 52 Participants
- COVID-19 Highlights Need for Protections for Millions of Homeworkers
- U.S. Warns of Sanctions on European Firms and Insurers Over Russia’s Nord Stream
- Core Specialty Partners, Lancer Launch Excess Transportation Program
- Insurance Broker Aon Drops Trump Organization
- Digital E&S Broker Pathpoint Offers Multiple Cyber Quotes to Retail Agents
- More Capitol Hill Rioters Face Firings Back at Work
- Levy to Retire as CEO of Munich Re US; Winter to Succeed Him
- ReSource Pro Acquires 2 Insurance Consulting Firms: Strategy Meets Action, Nolan
- Courts Allow COVID-19 Claims by Insureds With Policy Endorsements for Diseases
- Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution Risks and Insurance: Q&A With Allianz Specialists
- Tamayo Returns as CEO of MAPFRE North America; Joined by Corral
- New Law Forces Shell Companies to Disclose Owners, Expands Whistleblower Awards
- Voting System Firm Files $1.3B Defamation Lawsuit Against Pro-Trump Lawyer Powell
- The Gig Economy, Auto Insurance and Surplus Lines
- Here’s What’s New in U.S. Small Business Pandemic Paycheck Protection Program
- Boeing to Pay $2.5B to Settle With Justice Department Over 737 MAX Crashes
- Safety Agency Dismisses Claims of Faulty Acceleration Against Tesla
- Amalgamated Life’s Dunkin Becomes RIMS President for 2021
- Personal Auto Insurance Rates Fall Across the County: Value Penguin
- Why Even Bezos-Buffett-Dimon Dream Team Couldn’t Fix Health Care: Viewpoint
- Biden’s Choice for Labor Secretary — Boston’s Mayor Walsh— Signals Pro-Worker Policy
- Taxpayers, Not Insurance, to Cover Costs of Capitol Damage by Trump Mob
- Cities Are Stepping up Their Own Greenhouse Gas Battles
- Goosehead Insurance Fires Employee Who Was at Jan. 6 Capitol Hill Riot
- Insurance Leaders Condemn Violence by Trump Rioters Who Stormed Capitol
- Deep Fake Losses to Challenge Cyber Insurers, CyberCube Warns
- Hudson Gains Professional Lines Renewal Rights, Experienced Team from Validus
- 1 in 100,000 Had Severe Allergic Reaction to COVID Shot: CDC
- Bond to Lead Expanded Markel Surety Practice with $500M in Capacity
- Ethics and Insurance Fraud
- COVID Lawsuits by State and Key Trends in Workplace Litigation for 2021: Seyfarth
- How Kindness and Giving Prevailed in a Year Fraught with Challenges
- Insurer Centene to Buy Magellan for $2.2 Billion to Expand Its Mental Health Services
- REUTERS REPORT-Regulators Ignored Workers’ COVID-19 Safety Complaints Amid Deadly Outbreaks
- FCC Appears Unlikely to Act on Trump Bid to Change Social Media Liability
- COVID-19 Business Interruption Rulings, Most Favoring Insurers, Moving to Appeals
- FEMA Buys $1.153 Billion of Reinsurance for Flood Insurance Program for 2021
- Top National Insurance M&As of 2020
- Judge Rules Former Viacom Shareholders Can Sue Over ViacomCBS Merger
- Genworth Eyes Partial IPO as $2.7B Deal with China Oceanwide Stalls
- Trump’s EPA Institutes Curb on ‘Secret’ Science Used in Formulating Regulations
- Riskiest Counties for Natural Disasters Are Not Always Where People Think
- Insurance Leaders Among Those Urging Congress to Certify Biden Win Without Delay
- World’s Largest Insurers 2020: AM Best Ranks UnitedHealth, Allianz on Top
- Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan Closing Down Joint Healthcare Venture
- OSHA Now Accepting 2020 Workplace Injury Submissions Through March 2
- AmWINS Rebrands, Integrates Networked Insurance Agents with AmWINS Access
- Applied Underwriters Continues Major Expansion with D&O Unit Headed by AIG’s McGill
- CNA Transfers $690M of Excess Workers’ Compensation Business to Enstar Subsidiary
- Global Aviation Deaths Rose in 2020, Although Number of Crashes Fell
- Alphabet’s Wing Aviation Warns Proposed Drone ID Rules Invite Privacy Issues
- Daimler to Pay $30M Penalty to End Delayed Truck Safety Recall Probe
- Drugmakers Plan to Raise Prices in New Year: Reuters, 3 Axis Advisors
- 2022 Risk Watchlist for Directors & Officers Is Full: Insolvencies, Litigation, ESG, Cyber…
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