National News for November 2020
- HGTV’s ‘Property Brothers’ Sign With American Family Insurance as Spokesmen
- Trials Delayed, Cases Pile Up as Too Few Jurors Show Up Amid Coronavirus
- Independent Film Productions Shut Down as Virus Insurance Is Hard to Find
- Latest Tesla Safety Probe Involves 115,000 Vehicles Over Front Suspension
- Q&A on Mental Health Issues Among Employees and How AI Might Help
- Insurers Winning Most, But Not All, COVID-19 Business Interruption Lawsuits
- Meatpacking Plants Linked to Up to 8% of Early U.S. COVID Cases
- Road Rage Lawsuit Has Implications for Police Shootings: Opinion
- Top Biden Tech Advisor Is Critic of Internet Firms; Helped Craft California Privacy Law
- COVID-19 Vaccines Could Be Sent to States Within 24 Hours of FDA’s OK: Official
- Home Depot to Pay $17.5 Million to Settle With States Over 2014 Data Breach Claims
- Rawlins to Become CEO of Shelter Mutual as Moore to Retire
- Hippo Gets $350M Investment, Reinsurance Treaty From Mitsui Sumitomo
- Safety Group Lists Its Top 10 ‘Worst’ Toys of This Holiday Season
- Travel Insurance Surges Along with Coronavirus This Thanksgiving
- Usage-Based Insurer Metromile to Become Public Company
- Zywave Acquires Insurance Technologies Corporation (ITC)
- Carnival’s Princess Cruise Lines Must Face Passengers’ COVID-19 Lawsuit
- COVID Passports Could Speed Up Revival of International Travel
- Cigna’s CEO and Board Sued for ‘Black-Ops-Style’ Tactics to Kill Merger with Anthem
- Thanksgiving Fowl Play? No Problem. Whole Foods, Progressive Offer ‘Turkey Insurance’
- States Prepare Second Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google for December
- Torrent Technologies Adds Palomar Admitted Coverage to Flood Platform
- Kemper to Pay $370M for Specialty Insurer Focused on Hispanic Market
- Johnson & Johnson to Pay $120 Million in NY Baby Powder Case
- Praedicat Develops Insurance Tool for COVID-19 Liability
- Best Agency to Work For Overall: RightSure Insurance Group
- America’s Best Agencies to Work For
- Zurich Insurance in Talks to Acquire MetLife Unit for $4 Billion
- What Congress Should Do, or Not Do, to Rescue Businesses in Future Pandemics
- Health Officials Hope New Coronavirus Contact Tracing Apps Attract More Users
- Chief Actuary Antonello to Be Next CEO of Employers Holdings
- Insurtech Blink Launches Non-Damage Business Interruption Parametric Solution
- Allstate Hires Only Banks Owned by Minorities, Women, Veterans for Big Bond Sale
- Tyson Suspends Meat Plant Managers Accused of COVID Betting Pool
- Aon Targets M&A Market with Intellectual Property Assessment Offering
- Insurance Executives Seek More Diversity in Executive Ranks
- Boston Mayor Pledges EV Charging Stations at 10-Minute Walk Intervals
- Pace of Broker Acquisitions Picks Up in 2nd Half, After COVID-Linked Lull in Q2
- RLI Corp. CEO Michael to Retire in 2021; Kliethermes Will Replace Him
- Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Promotes Rootenberg, Scully to Claims Leadership
- Transportation Chief, Car Makers Say FCC’s Wi-Fi Ruling Undermines Auto Safety
- General Motors to Sell Use-Based Auto Insurance Through Onstar
- How Lloyd’s Underwriters Are Viewing Today’s U.S. Casualty Insurance Environment
- Intact, Resilience Insurance to Provide Cyber Risk Coverage, Services
- Starr’s Greenberg Sees Opportunity for Fresh Start for U.S.-China Relations Under Biden
- Bindley Capital, ForeSight Medical Ex-CEO Acquire Workers’ Comp Dental Provider
- Task of Tracking COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Falls to Multiple Federal Agencies
- S&P Finds U.S. Insurers Made Modest Gains in Diversity Over Decade
- FAA Safety Agency Clears Boeing 737 MAX to Fly Again
- Pfizer Reports 95% Success Rate in COVID-19 Vaccine Final Trial
- Despite Warnings and Laws, Drivers Continue to Be Distracted by Phones
- Allied World Sells Majority Stake in High-Net Worth Insurer Vault
- Nearly 90,000 Sexual Abuse Claims Filed Against Boy Scouts in Bankruptcy
- Market Value of Insurers, Drugstores Drops on Amazon Plans to Sell Prescription Drugs
- Cyber Security Top Concern for Businesses in ‘Age of Risk:’ Marsh & McLennan’s Glaser
- Arch Insurance N. America Hires Former Guarantee CEO Ruschak as EVP, Surety
- Zywave Snatches Up Advisen in Move to Accelerate Global Growth
- Is the Aviation Insurance Market Ready for a COVID-19 Vaccine?
- Federal Reserve Raises Questions Over Life Insurers’ Risk of Coronavirus Claims
- U.S. Safety Agency Expands Probe Into 159,000 Teslas Over Touchscreen Failures
- State Farm Fire Prevention Pilot Tests Sensors That Detect Electrical Wiring Defects
- Risk Placement Services Launches Online Commercial Crime Product
- World Encouraged by Moderna, Pfizer Vaccines’ Success in Trials
- Independent Agents Seek Digital, Product Support From Carriers to Battle Direct Writers
- U.S. Expected to Grant Safety Clearance for Boeing’s 737 MAX This Week
- GM Recalling 69,000 Chevy Bolt Electric Cars Over Fire Risk
- Kevelighan: Talks with Institutes on Creating 21st Century Triple III Began Years Ago
- McDonald’s Plans Safety Checks of All Restaurants as COVID Cases Surge
- Judge Throws Out Trump Campaign’s Libel Claim Against CNN
- Home, Pet Insurer Lemonade Bypasses Auto in Favor of Life… for Now
- Hiscox USA Appoints Fiddler as Chief Marketing Officer
- Everest Insurance Promotes Wu to E&S Excess Casualty National Leader
- Ex-Employee Who Protested Safety Sues Amazon Alleging Bias in His Firing
- For First Time, Federal Reserve Cites Climate as Financial Stability Risk
- Hurricanes Staying Stronger Longer After Landfall Than in Past
- Professional Liability Underwriters Feeling Pressure From COVID: AM Best
- Court Upholds Harvard’s Use of Race in Admissions; Opponents Eye Supreme Court
- Markets/Coverages: Slice Labs, AXIS Insurance to Offer Home Based Business Coverage
- HIIG Adds Public Company D&O Coverage, Picks AIG’s Bujosa to Lead
- AIG’s Fato Adds Communications to Government Duties; Garbaccio Promoted
- Aon Invests $30 Million to Create 10,000 Apprenticeships Nationwide by 2030
- Nonprofits The Institutes, Insurance Information Institute to Affiliate Nov. 16
- Insurance Tech Firm Insurity Acquires Personal Lines Management Suite CodeObjects
- QBE North America Hires Berkshire Hathaway’s Fortin, Greeley for Financial Lines
- How Lloyd’s Underwriters Are Viewing Today’s U.S. Property Insurance Environment
- Employers Facing Wave of Lawsuits by Parents Fired During Pandemic
- Two Conservative Supreme Court Justices Appear to Side with Obamacare Supporters
- COVID-19 Cases in Nursing Homes Rising in States Hit by Latest Virus Surge
- Supreme Court Again Weighs Fate of Affordable Care Act
- Reduced Driving Turns Into Fewer Injuries and Workers’ Compensation Claims
- Mediator Reports ‘Substantial Progress’ by Bayer in Resolving Roundup Cancer Lawsuits
- Study Shows COVID-19 Patients at Greater Risk of Mental Health Problems
- Judge Dismisses Defamation Claim Against Bezos Over National Enquirer Photos
- Q&A: Where Drugmakers Are in the Race for COVID-19 Vaccine
- Brown & Brown Acquires Digital Insurance Agency CoverHound and Its CyberPolicy Unit
- Pro Sports Bubbles Offer Coronavirus Safety Lessons for Real World
- P/C Insurers Face Workforce, Risk, Policy Challenges as Pandemic Continues
- Companies Hope to Take California Gig Worker Classification Law Nationwide
- Update: AIG Weighs IPO or 19.9% Stake Sale of Life and Retirement Unit
- Liberty Mutual Reports 46% Hike in Q3 Net Income Despite Catastrophe Losses
- AIG’s Profit Slumps on Q3 Catastrophe Losses
- Apple Faces Shareholder Class-Action Suit over CEO’s China Sales Comments
- Q3 Global Commercial Insurance Pricing Rockets 20% Higher: Marsh
- Voters OK’d Local Measures to Fight Climate Change
- Cincinnati Global Picks Hernandez, Seakens to Lead 2 New Business Lines
- Liability, Safety and Infrastructure Concerns Slow Development of Self-Driving Cars
- U.S. P/C Insurer Impairments Rise Slightly in 2019: AM Best
- AXIS Insurance Hires 6 Underwriters for Cyber and Technology Team
- Allstate Reports 26.7% Increase in Q3 Net Income to $1.13 Billion
- Analysis: Exit from Paris Agreement Creates Climate Liability for U.S. Businesses
- Threat of U.S. Insurance Regulatory Crackdown Fades Without Democratic ‘Blue Wave’
- U.S. Officially Becomes 1st Nation to Exit Paris Climate Pact
- Women Suing Goldman Sachs Demand Files with Words They Say Prove Discrimination
- AXIS Insurance Adds 3 Underwriters to Renewable Energy Team in U.S.
- Despite Challenges, New Year Will Bring Strong, Stable Industry: Hartwig
- Missouri High Court Rejects Johnson & Johnson Appeal of $2.12B Baby Powder Award
- Kemper Reports $122.3M in Net Income During Q3
- CoreLogic Discloses Strategic Review that Includes Possible Sale
- Starr’s Marine Division Launches Terminal Management System Loss Control Program
- Bayer Fails to Settle U.S. Roundup Lawsuits, Risking Restart of Federal Trials
- U.S. Cities Prepare for Possible Election Unrest
- Pilot Unions, Families of Crash Victims Seek Revisions to Training for Boeing 737 Max
- DiBattista to Lead Nationwide E&S Brokerage
- Federal Judge Dismisses Amazon N.Y. Warehouse Workers’ COVID-19 Lawsuit
- Royal Caribbean Suspends Most Cruises Through Year End as COVID Cases Rise Globally
- CNA Turns Q3 Profit; P/C Combined Ratio Rises Above 100%
- Holzworth to Head Applied Systems’ IVANS
- AIG’s Plan to Divest Life & Retirement Business Could Prompt Ratings Downgrades
- Update: Insurance Price Tag from Hurricane Zeta Estimated at $4.3B in U.S.
- Russia-Based Hackers Plan New Wave of Attacks Against U.S. Hospitals: Security Firm
- CoreLogic Shareholders Should Support Dissident Nominees for Board, Says ISS
- Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Expands Architects & Engineers Coverage Into 3 States
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