National News for December 2020
- How the NFL Pulled Off Playing During the Pandemic
- American Airlines Resumes Passenger Flights on Boeing 737 MAX Aircraft
- Court Upholds Trump Rule Requiring Hospitals to Disclose Health Insurer Prices
- Introducing the 2020 Insurance Fraud Hall of Shame
- Judge Throws Out Apple Copyright Claims Against Security Software Startup Corellium
- Administration Says Railroads Have Met Safety Technology Deadline
- Florida’s Altmaier to Assume NAIC Presidency for 2021
- U.S. Approves Commercial Drone Flights Over Populated Areas With Tracking
- Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts Trademark Tiff Over Use of ‘Scout’ Part of Recruitment Battle
- Insurers Not Quitting on Cyber Even as Risks Mount
- Insurance Journal’s Most Noteworthy Topics of 2020- National Region
- How U.S. Government Will Handle COVID-19 Vaccine Injury Claims Is Largely a Secret
- Applied Underwriters Hires 3 from AIG to Lead New Fine Art and Collectibles Unit
- Insurance Journal’s Top 10 (+1) Most Read Stories of 2020- National Region
- After Year’s Best IPO, Lemonade Insider Selling Lockup Expiration May Pressure Stock
- SynchronoSure, American European to Offer General Liability for Small Trucking Firms
- Can Insurance-Related Firms Compel Employees to Get COVID-19 Vaccination?
- Insuring Cannabis Summit: Talking to Clients About Risk Starts with Education
- Drug Firms Win Court Bid Halting White House Rule Aimed at Lowering Drug Prices
- Smaller Websites Nervous Over Giant Facebook’s Support for Liability Reform
- Social Inflation Lesson: Not Settling Cost Insurer Millions in Suit by Excess Insurer
- Google Adds Extra Scrutiny of Its Scientists’ Research on ‘Sensitive Topics’
- Masks Help Curb COVID-19’s Spread But May Not be Enough at Close Distances
- Insuring Cannabis Summit: Legal Cannabis Space Moving at Light Speed
- Challenges Facing Healthcare Pros on COVID Vaccine Frontlines: Q&A with Aon Experts
- Walmart Denies U.S. Charges It Fueled Opioid Crisis by Filling ‘Illegitimate Prescriptions’
- Cover Whale Expands Trucking Offering to Include Fleets
- Small Businesses, Lacking Legal Immunity, Fear COVID-19 Liability Lawsuits
- Here’s What’s In the $900 Billion COVID-19 Bill
- Different Federal, State Rules Confuse Employers Seeking COVID Vaccine for Workers
- Insurance M&A Rebound to Continue Into 2021: PwC
- Cybersecurity Firm Transmosis, Cysurance Offer Small Business Subscription
- Walgreens, CVS Lead COVID-19 Vaccination Drive for Nursing Homes
- Update: Aon Confirms EU Antitrust Probe of Merger with Willis Towers Watson
- Files Raise Questions About Purdue Pharma Family’s Transfer of $10B Over Decade
- Cyber Experts Race to Secure Networks Following Broad Cyber Attack on U.S.
- Court Allows Dr. Seuss’s Estate to Sue ComicMix Over ‘Star Trek’ Mashup
- Insuring Cannabis Summit: There Were Crop Risks Aplenty in 2020
- Moderna Vaccine Distribution Begins; CDC Urges Priority for Frontline Workers, Elderly
- Suspected Russian Hack of U.S. Government: Espionage or Act of War?
- From Insurers to Landlords, Retailers to Restaurants, COVID Reshapes Economies
- SEC Lawsuit Alleges Biotech Firm, CEO Misled Investors About COVID-19 Tests
- COVID Vaccine Rollout Spurs Demand for Extra Insurance Coverage
- Insuring Cannabis Summit: Industry at Diversity Crossroads
- Hospital Charges Rise Despite Fewer Visits to Emergency Rooms
- National Labor Board Says Amazon Illegally Fired Protesting Employee
- Openly, High-End Home Insurance MGA, Secures $40M for National Expansion
- Origami Risk Tools Track COVID-19 Vaccinations, Outbreaks
- Report: Despite Pandemic-Driven Emission Redux, We’re Headed to 3-Degrees Warming
- OSHA Updates Targeted Workplaces Inspection Program
- Lloyd’s Moves to End Insurance and Investments in Coal for Climate Sustainability
- First Coronavirus Business Interruption Trial Gets Underway
- Cyber Insurers Scale Back as Ransomware Attacks Rise
- New Everest Architects & Engineers Policy Offers PL, Pollution, Cyber Coverage
- Pfizer Vaccine Faces Some Storage, Production, Snowstorm Challenges
- EEOC Releases Updated Guidance on COVID-19 Vaccinations and Employment Laws
- QBE Names 4 From Berkshire Hathaway to Financial Lines Team
- Don’t Force Employees to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine: Viewpoint
- How Dominance of One Management Software Became Cyber Liability for U.S.
- Tech Firms Form Coalition to Defend Internet Liability Shield Law
- Directors & Officers Risk Landscape Shaped by Insolvencies, COVID, Activism: Allianz
- Neptune Flood Coverage Now Available Nationwide; New Policy System Released
- Top Performing Auto Insurers During COVID and What’s Driving Customer Behavior
- District Attorney Questions Deutsche Bank, Aon Employees Over Trump Organization
- FDA Appears Close to Approving ‘Highly Effective’ Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine
- Argo Ex-CEO Watson to Pay $450K to SEC for Not Disclosing $5.3M in Personal Perks
- Philadelphia Insurance Promotes Glomb to CEO; O’Leary Continues as Chairman
- Aon’s $30B Bid for Willis Towers Watson Faces EU Probe: Reuters
- Bipartisan COVID-19 Plan Helps Businesses, Unemployed; Splits State Aid, Liability Shield
- Suspected Russian Cyber Espionage Has U.S. Government, Businesses Scrambling
- Hagerty Names 2 to Top Roles to Drive Global Automotive Lifestyle Brand
- Trump EEOC Rule Aims to Slow Workplace Discrimination Lawsuits
- Flight Attendants Say United Airlines Quarantine Protocols Are Unsafe
- Impact of Coronavirus on U.S. Economy Could Be $3-$5 Trillion Over 2 Years: USC Study
- Trump Administration Seeks Medical Privacy Changes
- Insuring Cannabis Summit: Capacity, Vaping Among Issues in Industry Going Forward
- Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Goldman Stock Price Class Action
- Bipartisan COVID Relief Plan Expected to Put State Aid, Liability Shield in Separate Bill
- Record Return of Merger Activity Leads to Massive Growth in M&A Insurance Market
- CRC Group Appoints Koehn and Tredway as Co-Presidents of Brokerage Division
- Free Shots, Cash Bonus, Firing. Employers Weigh How to Get Employees Vaccinated
- FDA Expected to Quickly Approve Pfizer’s COVID Vaccine
- New Capital Entering Market Unlikely to Quickly Soften Rates: Vantage Risk CEO
- Zurich and Farmers Agree to Buy MetLife’s U.S. P/C Business for $3.94 Billion
- COVID, Economy, Social Inflation Warrant Negative Commercial Lines Outlook: A.M. Best
- Next Insurance Buys Data Firm Juniper Labs to Enhance Workers’ Compensation Offering
- National Weather Service Sees La Niña Continuing Through March 2021
- Uber Asks States to Prioritize Delivery, Rideshare Drivers for COVID Vaccine
- Insurers Ink $90 Billion in Merger Deals as They Pursue Post-Coronavirus Clout
- U.S. Drug Advisory Panel Meets Today on Pfizer’s COVID Vaccine
- Workers With Second Jobs May Be Factor in Nursing Home COVID Risk: Study
- Supreme Court Hears Shareholder Suit over Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
- GE Settles with SEC for $200M Over Misleading Power, Insurance Accounting
- CFC Expands Terrorism Offering to Include Active Assailant Coverage
- How Young E&S Brokers Are Navigating Today’s Market and Their Careers
- Kaufman, Burns & Wilcox Promote 16 Including Heckman to New Positions
- Middle Market Firms May Be Untapped Telematics Opportunity
- How to Address the Next Uninsurable Pandemic — A Black Swan Event
- New Sirius U.S. Excess & Surplus Unit Begins Writing Environmental Business
- States Grapple With Determining Who’s Essential, Who’s Not for COVID Vaccine
- FireEye, Major Cybersecurity Firm for Business and Government, Is Hacked
- Tracking Odors in Dangerous Places. The Smellicopter Flies to the Rescue.
- U.S. Commercial Insurance Rates Rise Again in Q3 But Show Signs of Stabilizing
- Battery Rivals Duracell, Energizer Agree to End Lawsuits Over False Advertising Claims
- As They Focus on COVID-19 Surge, Hospitals Become Targets for Cyber Attacks
- Lawmaker Calls FCC’s Spectrum Auction Danger to Aviation Band
- Expansion of Workers’ Compensation for COVID-19 in 6 States Created Narrow Benefit
- AmWINS Programs Adds Core Specialty as Long-Term Care Facilities Program Carrier
- Bankrupt Store Chain Sells $175M Unpaid COVID Insurance Claim to Pay Debt
- EU Privacy Agency Does Not Expect New EU-US Data Privacy Accord Any Time Soon
- Nice Home Office You Got There. Who’s Paying for It?
- Truist on Track for 5 Acquisitions to Boost Its Wholesale Insurance Business
- AI Ethics Scholar’s Exit Adds to Google’s Employment Practices Woes
- 30 Major League Baseball Teams Sue insurers Over Lost Revenue Due to Coronavirus
- Nonprofits Insurance Alliance Launches Communicable Disease Coverage
- EverQuote Employees Mourn Sudden Passing of Co-Founder, CEO Birnbaum, 47
- New Aon Cyber Offering Targets High Net Worth Individuals, Executives
- Millennials, Women ‘Sandwiched’ as COVID-19 Shifts Caregiving Responsibilities
- Justice Department Charges Facebook With Hiring Bias Against U.S. Workers
- SEC Fines Cheesecake Factory for Misleading Disclosures About COVID Financial Impact
- Women’s Team Settles With U.S. Soccer Federation Over Work Conditions
- Inspector General Urges Mine Safety Agency to Tighten Silica Dust Rules for Miners
- Insuring Cannabis Summit: Insurance Expert Unpacks Green Wave Election
- IBM Warns COVID Vaccine ‘Cold Chain’ Process Has Been Targeted by Hackers
- Environmentalists Say U.S. Insurers Lag Behind Peers on Fossil Fuels
- Insurance Journal’s Annual Charity Issue: Deadline Tomorrow
- Travelers to Acquire Plymouth Rock’s Digital Agency InsuraMatch
- Small Business Insurtech Huckleberry to Offer Pandemic Business Interruption Plan
- Fired Employees Accuse Google of Labor Violations Over Handling of Protests
- Chubb’s Keogh Adds Title of President to Chief Operating Officer
- Automakers Unveil Steps for U.S. to Speed Up Self-Driving Vehicle Deployment
- 2020 Hurricane Season Set Multiple Records
- U.S. Employers Have Right to Mandate COVID-19 Vaccine. But Will They?
- Insuring Cannabis Summit: Newly Legal States Could Yield $6B in Next 5 Years
- China Renews OK of Oceanwide’s Stalled $2.7 Billion Purchase of Genworth
- Crum & Forster Acquires Aspen’s Food and Beverage Product Recall Business
- Lockton Adds 3 Managing Directors from Aon to Its Transaction Liability Practice
- Former Tesla Employee Settles Over Theft of Trade Secrets, False Claims to Media
- Trumps Want Court to Approve Arbitration for Marketing Fraud Lawsuit
- Health Workers, Nursing Homes Should Get First COVID Vaccines, Says CDC
- Supreme Court Justices Tackle Company Liability for Human Rights Abuses
- Duke to Lead Expanded Actuarial, Analytics Practice at Xceedance
- Nasdaq to Require Increased Board Diversity Disclosure by Listed Companies
- Human Nature Thwarts Widespread Use of Apps Tracking Coronavirus Exposure
- Judge Rejects Bayer’s $648 Million PCB Contamination Proposal
- Bank Wins Suit Against Anbang Insurance After Ending Hotel Deal Due to Pandemic
- Insurers Looking Into Rise in Lawsuits Against Firms Over Lack of Diversity
- Hyundai, Kia To Pay $210 Million U.S. Penalty for Failure to Recall Autos
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