National News for March 2018
- Walmart Talking with Health Insurer Humana on Closer Ties, Possible Acquisition
- Youths’ Climate Change Suit Has Potential Impact on a Historic Scale for Insurance
- Oracle’s Java Copyright Violation Claim Against Google Not Dead After All
- Chubb Invests in Startup Bunker to Develop Gig Worker Insurance
- Flooding of East Coast Roads from High Tides Becoming Routine, Costly
- Uber Settles with Family of Victim of Driverless Accident
- Human Influence Makes Autonomous Vehicle Programming Unsafe: Professor
- Schinnerer Launches PL Coverage for Materials Transparency Consultants
- Hanover Insurance Weighs Selling London Specialty Unit Chaucer
- How 2 Researchers Hope to Protect Power Grid with Cyber Insurance Modeling
- Federal Energy Regulator Warns on Cyber Attacks on Power Grid
- Uber Settles Employee Gender, Racial Bias Lawsuit for $10 Million
- Working with Physicians, Cigna Cuts Prescription Opioid Use by 25%
- Takata Employee Whistleblowers Awarded $1.7 Million
- Here’s What AIG Paid CEO Duperreault
- XL Catlin to Offer Network Modeling, Cyber Risk Scoring Platform Through RedSeal
- Uber Cut Back on Safety Sensors on Volvo Involved in Fatal Accidents: Reuters
- National Hurricane Center Gets New Leader
- Validus Specialty, Eagle Ocean America to Offer Marine Vessel Operator Coverage
- Startup Auto Insurer Root Raises $51 Million for Further Expansion
- Jury Orders AndroGel Maker AbbVie to Pay $3M After Judge Rejected $150M
- Ryder Rolls Out Commercial Vehicle Sharing Program
- Taming Technochauvinism and Accepting Computers Don’t Always Get Things Right
- Supplier Claims Uber Disabled Its Safety Tech in Volvo That Caused Pedestrian Fatality
- Kidde Recalls 500K Smoke Detectors
- Marsh’s Dandridge Joins AIG as Marketing, Communications Head for General Insurance
- Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Greenberg Appeal Over AIG Bailout
- In Reply to Cities’ Liability Suit, One Oil Firm Agrees Humans Causing Climate Change
- Students Lead March for Stronger Gun Safety Laws
- How Trump Policies Contribute to Dire Scenario for Workers’ Compensation
- Waymo Claims Its Driverless Car Would Have Avoided Uber’s Fatal Accident
- Federal Flood Insurance Renewed Through July But Reforms Stall
- The Death of Underwriting and Underwriters
- IAT Insurance Acquires Excess and Umbrella Business from Rockhill Insurance
- Facebook User Sues Over Personal Data Release to Cambridge Analytica
- Endeavour Launches Deductible Buyback Program for Construction Wraps
- Uber’s Self-Driving Cars Insured by Old Republic
- Daughter of Pedestrian Killed by Uber Driverless Car Hires Lawyer
- Oppenheim Named Partner at JLT Specialty’s Construction Risk Partners
- Legislation to Combat Online Sex Trafficking Clears Congress; Moves to President
- Police Release Video of Fatal Collision of Uber Driverless Vehicle with Pedestrian
- ISO Says Cyber Insurance Program Now Available in 42 States
- Low Back Pain, Which Affects 540 Million Worldwide, Often Mistreated
- Driverless Vehicles Provide Test of Attitudes Toward Risk: Kemp
- Moody’s Projects Stable Outlook for Global Insurance Brokers
- Chubb Launches Coverage for Small Life Sciences Businesses
- Travel Site Orbitz Reports Data Breach
- Willis Towers Watson Adds Chmielesk, Beasley to Corporate Health Care Team
- Agency Best Practices for Avoiding, Rather Than Winning, E&O Suits
- Big Oil to Face Questions on Climate Change as Cities’ Abatement Lawsuit Proceeds
- More School Districts Buying Active Shooter Insurance
- Judge Says President Trump Not Immune to Defamation Suit Over ‘Unofficial Conduct’
- Here Come the Mini-Flying Machines
- Weinstein Co. Ends All Non-Disclosure Agreements, Files for Bankruptcy
- Liability and Legal Questions Follow Uber Autonomous Car Fatal Accident
- Startup Agency Gabi CEO: ‘We Don’t Want to Eliminate Agents’
- How Bad Was P/C Insurers’ Underwriting Loss in 2017?
- Former Federal Insurance Chief McRaith Joins Blacsktone’s Insurer Investment Team
- JLT Specialty USA Names Marsh’s Forbes as Senior Vice President for U.S. Property
- New European Privacy Rules (GDPR) Pose Major Challenge for Facebook
- Driverless Vehicle Makers Reach Feared Crossroad with Uber Fatality
- McDonald’s Offers to Settle Claims in Franchise Liability Case
- General Star Launches Allied Health, Churches & Schools Programs
- Uber Halts Road Tests After Autonomous Car Hits, Kills Pedestrian in Arizona
- State Commissioners Assist Puerto Rico Insurance Department
- FAA Grounds ‘Doors-Off’ Helicopter Tours After New York Crash
- Why Storm-Prone States Continue to Balk at Tough Building Codes
- Title Insurer Fidelity National to Buy Competitor Stewart for $1.2 Billion
- Credit Insurers Stopped Backing Toys ‘R’ Us a Year Ago
- Trump Administration, McDonald’s Rush to Avoid Employer Liability Trial
- Rideshare Drivers Flocking to On-Demand Economy, Poll Shows
- Experts Behind Product Liability Suit Against Monsanto Herbicide Don’t Impress Judge
- Women Suing Uber Claiming Driver Sexual Misconduct Fight Arbitration
- U.S. Says Russia Behind Years of ‘Multi-Stage’ Cyber Attacks on Energy Grid
- House Approves School Safety Bill
- Federal Appeals Court Sides with Financial Firms, Voids Obama Fiduciary Rule
- Study Links Severe Winter Weather in Northeastern U.S. to Arctic Temps
- In 5 States, 20% or More of Drivers Have No Insurance; Countrywide Average Increases
- Markel Appoints Chu as Chief Officer for Global Ceded Reinsurance
- Marsh Joins Enterprise Ethereum Alliance to Support Open Source Blockchain Standards
- Ally of Activist Investor Icahn to Leave AIG Board
- Lawsuits Charge Automakers Knew of Takata Air Bag Problems
- Democratic Senators Call for Changes in Federal Autonomous Vehicle Bill
- Securities Class Action Settlement Dollars Plummeted in 2017: Cornerstone
- Starr Companies Restructures Casualty Business Units
- Doable Dozen: 12 Sales, Marketing and Management Ideas for Agencies
- Judge to Decide on Evidence to Allow in Monsanto Product Liability Litigation
- GM to Pilot Airbnb-Like Service for Autos This Summer
- Smooth Waters Forms Agreement with National Cargo Bureau
- U.S. Population Trends: Elders to Outnumber Youth; More Ethnic, Racial Diversity
- Large Commercial Insurance Brokers Investing in AI, Analytics: Novarica
- Miley Cyrus Faces $300M Copyright Infringement Claim for ‘We Can’t Stop’ Song
- Specialty Program Group Launches Flagship Marine Underwriters
- Top Financial Services Groups to Merge
- Why Driverless Delivery of Goods Is Likely to Arrive Before Passengers
- What Cyber Insurance Industry Learned from 2017 Hacks
- Commercial Insurance Prices Were Up Only Slightly in Q4
- Yahoo to Face Lawsuit Over Breach of 3 Billion Users’ Data
- PMA’s Gara Joins NSM Insurance as Director of AllComp Solutions
- Trump Gun Safety Plan Includes Arming Teachers But Not Higher Buying Age
- How Insurer and Benefit Manager Mergers Squeeze Out Smaller Pharmacies
- HR Managers Braced for Increase in Sexual Harassment Complaints
- Private Equity Firm Blackstone Eyes Insurance Data Analytics Business
- Vehicle Recalls in U.S. Fell in 2017 After 3 Years of Record High Levels
- Trump Justice Department Prepares Ban on Bump Stocks
- Zurich North American Names Massey as Head of Programs, Replacing Putz
- Cigna’s Proposed Acquisition of Express Scripts Faces Antitrust Review
- Fox News Settles Gender Bias Claim
- Federal Agency Blocks Health Plans Falling Short of Obamacare Benefits
- Judge Says Trial Over Opioids May Be Necessary
- Hiscox Launches Mental Health Professional Liability Policy
- Cigna to Buy Pharmacy Benefits Manager Express Scripts for $52 Billion
- Commercial Cyber Liability Market to Reach $6.2B in Written Premium by 2020: Verisk
- La Niña Has 55% Chance of Waning During March-May, Says National Weather Service
- Longer-Term Opioid Prescriptions Increases Lost Work Time: WCRI Study
- Validus Specialty Expands Commercial D&O Portfolio; Zurich’s McAdams Named Sr. U/W
- Rewrite of Senate Banking Bill Tough for Wall Street Banks
- Helping Employers Understand Insurance Coverage for Sexual Harassment Claims
- ICW Group Expands Workers’ Comp Coverage Into 5 New States
- Coming Soon: New Global Workplace Safety Standard
- Iron-Starr Excess Agency Increases Capacity for Property Risks
- For U.S. Doctors, Being Sued Is Common Ailment
- Tax Law Will Benefit U.S. P/C Insurers, Says Moody’s
- Smith & Wesson Gun Maker CEO Defends Safety Efforts
- How Cyber FICO Ratings Could Benefit Insurance Underwriting
- Introducing the InsurTech Capitals of the World
- Y-Risk Approved as Lloyd’s Coverholder for Cyber, Technology E&O Product
- Managing Time Expectation for Claims Key to Keeping Homeowners Happy
- Drugmakers Scale Back Marketing of Opioids
- Workers’ Compensation Insurtech Pie Insurance Starts Selling in 4 States
- Why Companies Are Relaxing Employee Drug Testing
- Automakers, Tech Firms Urge Congress to Speed Up Autonomous Vehicles
- USI Affinity to Offer The Hanover Lawyer’s PL Product in Select States
- AIG Partners with Expedia to Provide Travel Insurance
- What A.M. Best Thinks of AmTrust’s Plan to Go Private, Sell Some Fee-Based Business
- Willis Towers Watson Names Faber as Corporate Risk, Broking Chief Operating Officer
- XL Group CEO McGavick Comments on Firm’s Agreed Purchase by France’s AXA
- Trump Administration Wants Time to Think About Joining Opioid Lawsuits
- Everest Adds Inland Marine Coverage to Forest & Logging Program
- Equifax Breach Could be Costliest Yet at $439M; Insurance to Cover $125M
- France’s AXA to Acquire P/C Insurer XL Group for $15.3 Billion
- State Auto Sells Rockhill’s General Liability, Gas Distribution Business to K2 Insurance
- Why More Corporate Agendas Are Reflecting Social Issues
- Nautilus Names Joyce Chief Underwriting Officer; Lasky Chief of Claims
- Trump Backs U.S. Lawsuit Against Opioid Firms, Tougher Penalties for Dealers
- U.S. Wants Public Input on Rules for Driverless Vehicles, Trains
- RMS Appoints Silicon Valley Executive White as CEO, Succeeding Shah
- Agent and Carrier Strategies and the Future of Cyber Insurance
- QBE North America Adds Breach Plan Services to Cyber Policies
- Chubb Tells Court Its Policies for Weinstein Do Not Cover Harassment Legal Defense
- Startup Modeler Jupiter Wants to Better Predict Impacts of Climate Change
- Two-Thirds of Commuter Trains May Miss Braking Technology Deadline
- Insurer AmTrust Unveils $2.7 Billion Plan to Go Private
- Gun Injuries Drop 20% During NRA Convention Every Year: Study
- What Agent Who Wrote First Cyber Policy Thinks About Cyber Insurance Now
- Study Suggests Pedestrian Fatalities May be Linked to Smartphone, Marijuana Use
- Verisk Launches New Energy Insurance Platform for Insurers
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