March 10, 2025 Small Business Market Hospitality Risks Directory Markets: Homeowners & Auto

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In this Issue

• Features
  Washington Bill Would Provide Restitution for Policyholders Harmed by Insurers
  A bill to allow the Washington's insurance commissioner to order...
• Features
  AM Best Revises Outlooks to Negative for Mercury and Subsidiaries Over LA Wildfires
  AM Best revised the outlooks to negative from stable and affirmed the...

National Coverage

• Features
  Preventing Workplace Violence Not One-Size-Fits-All Exercise: Risk Management Experts
  Businesses are now required to implement robust workplace violence...
• Features
  A Review of California’s Workplace Violence Prevention Law
  Workers' compensation insurers and California employers alike have...
• Editor's Note
  A Look at Rate Trends
  Premium renewal rates were up again in fourth-quarter 2024 but...
• Features
  US P/C Industry Improves Despite 2024 Underwriting Loss: Changes in Personal Lines Segment Driver of Expected Improvement
  The U.S. property/casualty industry took another underwriting loss in...
• Features
  Small, Medium-Sized Firms Lacking in ‘Continuity’ Planning: Survey
  Mid- and small-market businesses (SMBs) face a lot of the same...
• Features
  Insuring ‘Red Zone’ High-Value Homes: A Look at California’s Wildfires and the Luxury Home Insurance Market
  When the calendar flipped to 2025, Lacey Garrison Strom was...
• Features
  FEMA to Borrow $2 Billion to Pay Flood Claims After Hurricanes Helene and Milton
  The Federal Emergency Management Agency said in February that it...
• Features
  Sedgwick: U.S. Product Recalls Reached High Level Again Last Year
  The number of U.S. product recalls remained high in 2024 with more...
• Features
  I Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Insurance Agent
  This is obviously a warped paraphrase of the famous line from "The...
• Features
  The Supreme Court’s Upcoming Ruling on Class Certification: A Watershed Moment for Insurance and Business Litigation
  Imagine a world where insurers could fend off class action lawsuits...
• Features
  Preventing the Dreaded ‘Offer Renege’
  Nothing feels like a bigger gut punch than when a candidate reneges...
• Features
  Why Cyber Insurers Should Partner in Cybersecurity Support
  The history of insurance dates back as far as 2000 BCE, when...
• People & Places
  People & Places
  National Westchester, Chubb's Excess and Surplus Lines Division,...
• Business Moves
  Business Moves
  East Insurance Services of New England, ACORN Insurance Alliance...
• Declarations
  Declarations
  Uninsurable Future? "We're marching steadily towards an uninsurable...