National News for January 2022
- Insurers Deploy Predictive Analytics, Artificial Intelligence in Fraud Fight
- Take This Year’s Agency Salary Survey: Deadline Friday
- How Work-From-Home Has Spurred Blue-Collar Americans to Shift Careers
- Insurers Making Waves with Wider Use of IoT Leak, Temp Sensors
- White House Plan Aims to Strengthen Cyber Defenses for Water Utilities
- Insurance Scion Who’s Out to Save Human Driving
- People Moves: NFP Cyber Adds Marsh’s Maugé, WTW’s Cavaliere; Dillman to Head Chubb’s Digital Transformation
- Tesla’s Musk Sees Safe Self-Driving Vehicle This Year and Humanoid Robot Next Year
- Insurtech Accelerant Raises $190 Million
- Families of Crash Victims Want Boeing 737 Settlement Reopened
- Insurer Looks to Close Insurance Gap for Home-Based Businesses
- Kin Insurance, Omnichannel Pull Plug on SPAC Merger
- Crop Insurance Payouts Rise as Climate Change Worsens Droughts, Floods
- Update: Marsh McLennan Q4 Net Income Jumps 100%; 6,000 Employees Added in 2021; Cyber Still Growing
- BlackRock Agrees to $300M Loan for Root Insurance
- New York Will Require Employers to Disclose Monitoring to New Hires
- Biden Administration Officially Withdraws Employer Vaccine Rule
- Biden Administration Hit for Delay in Creating New Cybersecurity Board
- Progressive Q4, Full Year Net Income Drop Over 40%
- Some U.S. Businesses Wary of Sanctions on Russia, Urge Safe Harbors, Exemptions
- World’s First Crypto Mortgage? Homeowners’ Insurers Don’t Hate It
- U.S. Surplus Lines Premium Up 22% in 2021
- Loss Costs Outpace Increase in Premiums for U.S. P/C Industry Through Q3
- Insurance Technology: Great American, Assurely Offer D&O for Tech Startups; Tractable AI Assesses Building Damages; Pie Offers Pay-As-You-Go
- In 2021, Risk Managers Median Salary Hit $135K in U.S.; $120K in Canada
- Now Safe Drivers Can Get a Break on Life Insurance
- Three States, D.C. Sue Google Claiming Location Tracking Violates Users’ Privacy
- Amazon Discloses Employee Injury Rates Compared to Peers
- Sarah Palin’s Positive COVID Test Delays New York Times Defamation Trial
- People Moves: Brown & Brown Welcomes Zurich’s Batta; Hartford’s Vaughn to Global Specialty; Chubb Names Spitzer Treasurer, Harkin North America CFO
- Insurtech Root Lays Off 330 Employees as Loss Costs Increase
- Secondary Perils Are Increasing Share of U.S. Catastrophe Losses
- Ford Motor, ADT $105M Joint Venture Targets Vehicle Security Systems
- Sarah Palin’s Defamation Trial Against New York Times Scheduled to Start
- QBE Alleges Poaching of Aviation Team; Applied Underwriters Denies Wrongdoing
- American Financial Buys Artificial Intelligence Company Verikai
- Mother Sues Meta, Snap Over Social Media ‘Addicted’ Daughter’s Suicide
- Two Oil Tankers Lose Safety Certification Over Claims They Violated Iran Sanctions
- Consumer Reports, Insurance Safety Institute to Rate Vehicle Driver Automation Systems
- 450 Scientists Accuse Major Ad/PR Firms of Spreading Climate Disinformation
- Nearly 8-in-10 Executives Believe World Is at ‘Climate Change Tipping Point’
- Travelers Sets Some Records With Q4 Results
- Shock Rejection of Purdue Pharma Opioid Deal Raises Scrutiny by Bankruptcy System
- U.S. Airlines Report Only Minor Disruption From 5G Deployment
- Criminal Indictments Are Major — But Not Only — Tool of U.S. Cyber Defense Agencies
- Transportation Safety Chief Objects to Use of Driver Error Statistic
- Multi-Family Property Insurtech Honeycomb Raises $15.4 Million, Plans Expansion
- Judge Nixes Former Employees’ Suit Against Marsh & McLennan Over 2021 Data Breach
- Agriculture Officials Find More Avian Flu Cases in Wild Birds, Caution Poultry Farmers
- Number of Insurance Agency M&As Rose 30% in 2021: OPTIS Partners
- AT&T, Verizon Again Agree to Delay Turning On Some 5G Towers Near Key Airports
- Teva to Pay $420M to Settle Shareholder Suit Over Generic Drug Pricing
- People Moves: Zurich North America Changes Leadership in Captives, Crop, Construction, Customer Office
- Marsh McLennan’s Mercer Sells Association Business to Affinity Agency
- COVID-19 Cases, Deaths on Rise Again at Nursing Homes
- Judge to Rule in February on Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder Bankruptcy Strategy
- Bird Flu Found in Wild Duck Could Endanger Poultry Industry
- Businesses, Labor Take Stock After Supreme Court Tosses Biden Covid-19 Rule
- Major Airlines Warn of ‘Catastrophic’ Aviation Crisis With Tomorrow’s 5G Deployment
- People Moves: Chubb Names Spitzer Treasurer, Harkin CFO North America; Arch Re Fac Promotes Hernandez, Others as CEO Vivian Retires
- Record Number Signing Up for Affordable Care Act Health Insurance
- What the Supreme Court Justices Said in Blocking OSHA’s COVID-19 Workplace Rule
- As Natural Snowfalls Fade, Athletes Face More Falls With Manmade Snow
- Workplace Class Action Payouts Unexpectedly Grew During Pandemic in 2021
- Supreme Court Halts OSHA Vaccine/Test Mandate; Allows Rule on Health Workers
- Health Insurers Cooperating With Plan to Pay for Home COVID Tests Starting Saturday
- Travelers Expands Telematics Auto Insurance Offering With App-Based Program
- HCI Postpones Home and Flood Insurer TypTap’s IPO Until ‘Conditions Are Appropriate’
- EPA Targets Coal Ash Storage Ponds for Closure
- Low-Income Residents Face Higher Risk of Deadly Fires Like New York Apartment Blaze
- People Moves: Hartford’s Guidry Joins Great America’s Alternative Markets; Vertafore Names Nguyen Chief Technology Officer
- U.S. Confronted With Deadly Billion Dollar Disasters as Carbon Emissions Soar
- Judge Denies Prince Andrew’s Bid to Avoid Sex Abuse Lawsuit Tied to Epstein
- Employers Fear Long-Term Liability From ‘Take-Home’ COVID-19 Lawsuits
- U.S. Security Agencies Issue Advisory on Russian Cyber Attacks on Infrastructure
- Smart Guns Finally Arriving in U.S., Seeking to Shake Up Firearms Market: Reuters
- Hippo Expands Homeowners Association Insurance Offering to 15 States
- Insurer Need Not Defend Drug Chain in Opioid Suits Claiming Economic, Not Personal, Injury
- Stay Home or Go to Work Sick? Omicron Poses a Conundrum.
- Sister of Slain Federal Officer Files Wrongful Death Suit Against Facebook
- Can a Self-Driving 40-Ton Truck Be Safe? Developers Say Yes But Others Are Skeptical.
- Supreme Court Conservatives Question OSHA Business Vaccine Rule
- FAA Discloses 50 Airports That Will Have 5G Buffer Zones
- Appeals Court Revives Boeing 737 MAX Shareholder Lawsuit
- Safety Council Finds Employer Vaccine Mandates Boost Worker Vaccination Rate 20%
- Transport Industry Expects Continued Staffing Woes as Concern Over Omicron Spreads
- Berkley Forms Excess Liability Unit for Contractors; Names Starr’s Robinson President
- Supreme Court Weighs Bids to Block Biden Vaccine Mandates Today
- Harmful Soot Unchecked as Big Oil Battles EPA Over Testing: INSIGHT
- Report: More Than 1-in-4 Residents Affected by Climate-Related Extreme Weather in 2021
- Nominations Open for Insurance Journal’s Agents of the Year
- Flurry of Briefs Filed Supporting, Opposing OSHA COVID-19 ETS in U.S. Supreme Court
- Corporations That Fake Social Responsibility at Greater Risk of Cyber Attacks
- Study Questions Link Between In-Person Schooling and COVID Infection Rates
- Judge Narrows SEC Claim vs Morningstar Over Undisclosed Bond Rating Changes
- Renaissance Alliance Acquires New Jersey, California Agency Networks
- Boy Scouts Fail to Gain Enough Support From Victims for $2.7B Sex Abuse Settlement
- Acrisure Acquires Wholesaler Appalachian Underwriters
- COVID-Cautious Supreme Court Preparing to Rule on Biden Vaccine Mandates
- People Moves: Amwins Names Baig, McNatt as Brokerage Presidents; TigerRisk Adds Lockton’s Cheney
- Despite Mitigation Efforts, Cyber Attacks and Rate Hikes to Continue in 2022
- Are 5G Telecoms a Threat to Airline Safety?
- People Moves: Sterling Becomes RIMS President; Hughes Becomes President of Kimball Hughes PR; Hampshire Heads CPCU Leadership Council
- COVID-19 Claims of $44B Are 3rd Largest Catastrophe Loss: Howden
- How to Create a Hybrid Workplace and Office Culture
- Verizon, AT&T Agree to 2-Week Delay in 5G Deployment
- Judge Orders Mediation for Purdue Pharma, Sacklers, States Over Opioid Settlement
- Morgan Stanley Files $60 Million Proposed Settlement of Data Breach Claims
- Insurers Report Jump in Catalytic Converter Thefts; New State Laws May Help
- AT&T, Verizon Reject U.S., Aviation Industry Request for 5G Delay Over Safety
- Federal Appeals Court Revives Libor-Rigging Claims Against Big Banks
- Purdue Pharma Plans Appeal of Ruling Nixing Its Opioid Settlement, Liability Shield
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