National News for November 2018
- AXA XL Adds Cybersecurity Services to Cyber Insurance Program
- Marriott Starwood Assessing Impact of 4-Year Long Data Breach
- CVS Says It Closed on Deal to Buy Aetna But Judge Balks
- AXIS Consolidates 4 Businesses Into Single Global Cyber and Technology Unit
- Justice Department Vows to Pursue Individual Executives in Corporate Crime Cases
- Democrats’ Climate Change Concern Ebbs When Congress Faces Flood Insurance
- Judges Weigh Consolidating Firefighting Foam, Other Water Chemical Lawsuits
- Democrats, Republicans Tentatively Agree on Farm Bill with Crop Insurance
- Flood Insurance Lapse Avoided But Longer Term Extension Still Uncertain
- Survey from Regulator of Largest U.S. Insurance Market Shows More Coal Divestment by Insurers
- Starr Insurance to Offer Ski, Snowboard Rescue & Evacuation Insurance
- Hub International Reports Minority Investment by Canada’s Altas
- Senators Encouraged by Talks on Farm Bill
- Applied Systems Among Firms Layering Loans to Pay Equity Owners
- FDA Vows Overhaul of Medical Device Approval System
- What Insurers Want and Get from Insurtech Partnerships
- Puerto Rico Reforms Claims, Surplus Lines, Other Insurance Laws
- How Insurer Deployed Technology to Expedite Wildfire Claims
- Fitch Warns of Negative Credit Effects on Reinsurance from California Wildfires
- Ironshore Enhances Contractors Ability Coverage for Pollution Incidents
- IBM Joins Critics Calling for Regulation of Tech Firms’ Personal Data Use
- How Taxpayers Subsidize Rebuilding Homes After Flooding… Repeatedly
- Concerned Bankers, Investors Warn Federal Reserve About Leveraged Credit Market
- Managing Natural Disasters Becomes Priority for Nation’s Governors
- Analysts Weigh Chances Next Congress Will Actually Reform Flood Insurance
- Insurtech MGA Corvus Raises $10 Million to Expand Commercial Lines Business
- Brewery Defeats Trademark Complaint by Conservative Icon Schlafly’s Heirs
- Research Finds Fire-Resistant Building Codes Do Not Raise Home Prices
- Exclusive: Insiders Symington, Lehmann Analyze Mid-Term Elections for P/C Insurance
- Burns & Wilcox to Offer Cybersecurity Services Through BreachAware
- CLO Fever: Small Insurer Bets Big on Booming Leveraged Loan Market
- XL Insurance to Cut Coal Industry Business Under Parent AXA’s Climate Order
- Wells Fargo Seeks to Limit Payout for Faulty Auto Insurance Plan
- Employers Mutual Looks to Acquire Outstanding Stock of EMC Group
- Sears Investors Allege Improper Moves by Credit Insurance Seller Cyrus
- Report by 13 U.S. Agencies Warns of Dire Economic Effects from Climate Change
- Judge Nixes U.S. Suit Against Malaysia Airlines, Insurer Allianz Over Plane Disappearance
- EPA Warns on Chemical Found in Nonstick Coatings
- NFL Hands Off $35 Million to Concussion Researchers
- Judge Picks First Case for Trial in Federal Monsanto Weedkiller Litigation
- Beach Town Developers Now Believe in Stronger Building Codes, Construction
- Santander Bank to Pay $11.8 Million to Settle Auto Loan, Insurance Claims
- Gallagher Affinity Launches Online Cyber Suite for Small, Midsize Federal Contractors
- A.M. Best Assesses Wildfires’ Effect on Home Insurance Market, Insurers’ PG&E Exposure
- Ironshore’s O’Brien Joins Ascot U.S. to Launch Environmental Business
- CVS Acquisition of Aetna Expected to Close After Thanksgiving
- U.S. Court Affirms Dismissal of IPO Investors’ Claims Against Barclays
- Lowell Joins The Hartford to Head Small Business Innovation Lab
- Report Identifies P/C Insurance Companies with Best Reputations
- How Insurance Market Will Expand in Age of Autonomous Vehicles
- Keating Expands Property Coverage Options with Monoline, Package Product
- S&P Upgrades Outlook for CNA Group
- Latest Estimates of Insured Losses from California Wildfires at $9B to $13B
- Flood Insurance Program to Lapse Nov. 30 Unless Congress Acts
- AutoNation On-Demand Used Car Subscription Bundles Maintenance, Insurance
- State Insurance Regulators Elect Maine’s Cioppa President of NAIC for 2019
- Medical Professional Liability Insurers Post Underwriting Loss Again
- What Agents Should Know About Cryptocurrency Insurance Market
- Liberty Mutual Restructures Distribution for Commercial & Specialty Products
- Boeing Defends 737 Safety as First U.S. Lawsuit Filed Over Lion Air Crash
- Travelers Partners with Contractor, Tech Firm on Wearables for Construction Safety
- Insurance Industry Kept Promises to Hurricane Victims; Now Tested by Wildfires
- Jobless Ranks May Be Inflated by Millions of Gig Workers
- ProWriters Launches Online Cyber Insurance Portal
- Nationwide Insurance Cutting 1,000 Jobs
- Carbon Copies of Flo, Jake, Gecko Join Climate Change Protest at NAIC Meeting
- Ambulatory Centers’ Surgery Costs Below Hospitals’, Workers’ Comp Research Finds
- Safety Board Hearing Probes Fatal Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Explosion
- Markel Completes Acquisition of Investment Manager Nephila
- Bipartisan Senate Bill Would Regulate Proxy Advisors
- Cyber Expert Says Industry Over-Complicates Cyber Insurance
- New ISO Management Liability Program Targets Private Companies’ Increasing Risks
- Jury Finds J&J Not Liable in Talcum Powder Cancer Case in California
- Take1 Insurance to Offer Escape Room Coverage for Association Members
- AIG, Carlyle Complete Deal Creating Run-Off Reinsurer, Fortitude Re
- National Hockey League Reaches $19M Concussions Settlement with Retired Players
- Tesla Settles Most Sudden Acceleration Claims
- Solutions to Wildfires in Time of Climate Change Are Costly, Unpopular
- Seeman Holtz Agency Acquires Insurtech Goji
- QBE North America Sells National Farmers Union to National General
- Waymo’s First Driverless Car Service Seen Right Around the Corner
- Anxious Farmers Look to Lame Duck Congress to Pass Safety Net Farm Bill
- Marsh Forms Specialty Business, ‘Marsh-JLT Specialty;’ Names Executive Team
- U.S. Pilots Maintain Boeing Never Warned of System Linked to 737 Crash in Indonesia
- Airbnb Will No Longer Require Arbitration for Employee Bias and Harassment Claims
- California Wildfire Insured Losses at Billions of Dollars and Climbing
- SEC Wants More Details from AIG on Berkshire Reinsurance
- PLUS Experts: One of the Biggest Gaps in Cyber is Explaining it to Customers
- How Independent Agents Fared in 3Q and the Past 4 Years
- SEC to Revisit ‘Proxy’ Voting Favored by Investors Raising Social, Climate Issues
- RSG’s ThinkRisk Becomes Part of EmergIn Risk
- Allstate Reported to Be Weighing Sale of Fixed-Annuities Business
- After 20K Employees Protest, Google Searches for New Harassment Policies
- Can Commercial Auto Insurers Get to Profit Before Autonomous Vehicles Arrive?
- Survey Says #MeToo May Be Quashing Company Holiday Parties
- Beazley’s Norton Joins Brit Global USA to Lead Cyber Team
- Tallying Losses from October’s Global Catastrophes
- Patrick Ryan Hails Program Business Amid Retail Consolidation, Moves Toward MGAs
- Insurtech Profile: Broker Buddha Simplifies Agents’ Lives with Smart Forms
- Ending Major Threat of Drug-Resistant Deadly Superbugs for $2 Per Person
- QBE Ventures, Zeguro Partner on ‘Cybersecurity Officer’ Small Business Platform
- FEMA Seeking to Renew Its Private Reinsurance for Flood Insurance Program
- Casualty Losses Provide Impetus for 2019 Rate Firming: Willis Towers Watson
- Girls to Face Boys in a Federal Trademark Suit Over ‘Scout’ Term
- Marsh & McLennan’s $5.6B Acquisition of Broker JLT Gets Shareholder Nod
- Great American Insurance Names Liberty Mutual’s Artin to Cyber Liability Team
- AIG Finalizes Acquisition of Program Manager Glatfelter Insurance
- Swiss Re Taps XL’s LaRocca to Lead Property/Specialty Lines North America
- AIG Winds Down Iran Business It Acquired Along With Validus
- Lawsuit Says Wells Fargo Executives Knew About Insurance Overcharges
- Sirius Insurance Closes Deal with Easterly, Becomes Public Company
- Motel 6 Pays $7.6M to Settle Class Action Over Giving Guest Lists to Immigration Agents
- Insurance Linked Securities’ Issuance Reaches Record $1.6B in Q3: Willis Re
- U.S. Agencies Split Over Cell Phone Cancer Risk
- Confie Secures $220M Credit Facility for Continued Expansion
- Insurtech Profile: The Evolution of Slice and Future of Insurance
- AXA XL, Slice Labs Launch On-Demand Cyber Coverage for Small, Mid-Size Businesses
- Insurance Technologies Corp. Acquires Assurance Systems
- Kemper’s Strong Third Quarter Includes Infinity Results
- Berkshire Hathaway Insurance Underwriting Gains in 3Q
- Winning, Sharing, Trusting, Failing, Losing: 10 Insuretech Connect Takeaways
- States Urge Insurers to ‘Spread the Word’ on Flood Insurance to Boost Sales
- Critics Say Bond Rating Agencies Ignore Municipalities’ Climate Risk
- E-Scooter Fires Pit Sharing Firm Lime Against Manufacturer Segway
- Bayer Monsanto Open to Weedkiller Settlement But Denies Cancer Claims
- Federal Cyber Privacy Bill Calls for Fines, Prison for Executives’ Violations
- Hiscox USA Promotes Hart to Product Head for Media
- Bipartisan Autonomous Vehicle Legislation Stalls on Capitol Hill
- AIG Executives Outline Path to Underwriting Profit in 2019
- Digital Carrier Next Insurance Launches General Contractor Coverage
- Confie’s Rothberg Exits California-Based Nonstandard Auto Insurance Giant
- Liberty Mutual Reports $282M Profit for 3Q
- Insurtech Profile: Snapsheet’s Evolution in Making Virtual Claims Service a Reality
- Supreme Court Hears Google Case Where Award Monies Don’t Go to Those Harmed
- Plaintiff in Monsanto Weedkiller Cancer Case Accepts Court’s Reduced $78M Award
- ProSight Adds Coverage for Fitness, Wellness Experts to Direct-to-Consumer Platform
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