National News for September 2020
- CFC Upgrades Cyber Incident Response Mobile App
- Health Insurer Anthem Settles States’ Cyber Breach Probe for $40 Million
- Allianz Adds 3 From Argo to Cyber Insurance Team
- Personal Finance Firm Credit Karma to Offer Checking Account in U.S.
- The State of Surplus Lines Insurance: Busy Solving Risk Puzzles in a Complex World
- FAA Chief to Conduct Own Test Flight of Boeing 737 MAX
- Amazon Workers’ Injury Rate Higher Than Industry Average, Report Says
- COVID-19 Crisis Renews Attention on Systemic (Uninsurable) Risks
- HUB to Offer InsuraGuest Small Claims Hospitality Product to Hotel Clients
- Insurance Broker Gallagher Reports Ransomware Attack
- Chubb Names Updyke as Division President of Chubb Small Business
- Trump Plan Would Restrict Retirement Plans from Sustainable Investments: Viewpoint
- The Big Question Is Can U.S. Restrain Worsening Wildfires?
- Pandemic Brings Shift in Younger Workers’ Views of Employee Benefits
- Meat Plant Workers Being Denied Workers’ Compensation for COVID-19: Reuters
- White House Vows 150 Million Rapid COVID Tests for Schools, Seniors
- U.S. Pension Funds Sue Allianz After $4 Billion in Coronavirus Losses
- Major U.S. Tech Firms Look to Be Ignoring Europe’s Data Privacy Rules
- Even Failed Claims Against Nurses Cost Insurers $20K, Liability Study Shows
- Reinsurance Demand Rises, Along with Flight to Quality, Say Industry Experts
- Alphabet Settles Suit Over Executives’ Exit Pay, Coverups Linked to Sexual Misconduct
- D&O Insurers Under Pressure But Big Enough to Handle Pandemic Claims, Says Fitch
- Four Senior-Level Black Managers Including Diversity Leaders Exit AIG
- U.S. to Research Transmission of COVID-19 in Beef Supply Chain
- New York Again Ranks as Top Global Financial Hub But London Gains in Volatile Index
- Travelers Offers Artificial Intelligence for Companies to Assess Worker Safety
- New Crash Test Dummy Is a 3-Year Old
- What Ever Happened to Hedge Fund Reinsurers?
- A.J. Gallagher Alleges Alliant’s Poaching ‘Playbook’ Has Cost It Employees, Clients
- Court Nixes Opioid Proposal That Would Have Included Cities That Have Not Sued
- Arch Forms Underwriting Partnership with ProHost for Restaurant Industry Program
- New York, California Could be Fastest Growing States for Renewables
- Mutual Insurer Group NAMIC Names Merchants Mutual’s Zak as Chair
- More Firms Turning to Insurance Captives in Tightening Market: Marsh
- Next Insurance Attracts $250M in New Financing; Its $631M to Date Beats Lemonade
- As Wildfires Spread, Public Safety Tech Startups Lack Venture Capitalists’ Backing
- SEC Toughens Rules on Shareholder Proposals
- Berkshire Hathaway Guard Expands Professional Liability Products Into Multiple States
- Businesses Face Fewer Cyber Events, But the Attacks Are More Costly
- Congress Parks Self-Driving Car Regulation Until 2021
- Home Insurtech MGA Hippo, Topa Insurance End Their 3-Year Partnership
- For Carnival Cruise Lines, 1920 ‘Death on the High Seas Act’ Curbs Coronavirus Damages
- Juul’s Defense of Marketing E-Cigarettes to Youth Targets Use of Organized Crime Law
- Justice Department Set to Unveil Plan to Limit Internet Firms’ Liability Protections
- House Votes to Extend Flood Insurance Program 1 Year; Senate Yet to Vote
- Catastrophe Losses Driven Higher by Secondary Perils – And Climate Change
- Labor Department Eyes Simpler Rule for Classifying Independent Contractors
- Thoma Bravo Completes Acquisition of Insurance Software Firm Majesco
- Beazley Beefs Up Executive Risk Team in U.S. with 6 More Recruits
- P/C Mutual Insurers Improved Underwriting in 2019; Top 10 Hold 72% of Market: AM Best
- Music Festivals Testing ‘Bubble’ Strategies to Bring Back Outdoor Events
- Coronavirus Safety: U.S. Behind Global Rivals in Protecting Meat Plant Workers
- 2 Cruise Lines Submit 74 Safety Steps to Convince CDC to Lift No-Sail Order
- Insurance Advisory Organization’s Pandemic Endorsement Approved by 6 States
- Fed Leader Says ‘Pernicious’ Effects of Redlining Against Blacks Still Persist
- How Insurance Industry Might Respond if a Pandemic Is an Act of Terror
- Startups Developing Technologies to Clean Air in Workplaces of Coronavirus
- USI, Crum & Forster Offer Cyber Coverage to Bar Association Law Firms
- MetLife Looks to Sell P&C Auto and Home Insurance Business: KBW Analysts
- Next Funding Round for Next Insurance May Double Insurtech’s Valuation to $2.25 Billion
- Is It Covered? Frozen Pipes.
- Great American, VGM Insurance Launch Golf & Country Club Program
- InsureTech Connect Delays Virtual Conference Until October for Networking Signups
- NFIP’s Flood Losses Expected to Be ‘Significant’ from Hurricane Sally: AM Best
- Beazley Restructures U.S. Executive Risk Leadership Team
- Some Reinsurers Will Try Pandemic Exclusions for Casualty at Jan. 1 Renewals
- Number of Landfalls of Big U.S. Storms Could Break 1916 Record
- Businesses Urge U.S. Insurers to Stop Insuring, Investing in Fossil Fuel Producers
- In a First, State Farm to Acquire Texas Nonstandard Auto Insurer GAINSCO
- NBIS Adds SCOR Companies as Market for Specialized Transport, Heavy Haul Industry
- Orloff to Replace Kelly as Head of Liberty Mutual Field Operations for Commercial Lines
- Ryan Specialty Group Names Cortezi, Nichols to Lead RSG Underwriting Managers
- Bayer Settles More U.S. Claims Over Weedkiller Roundup
- Sompo’s Davis Named President of Canopius USA as It Eyes Expansion
- Slowness, Not Speed, of Hurricanes Like Sally Becoming Major Concern
- U.S. Prosecutors Charge 7 in Alleged Multi-Target Chinese Hacking Scheme
- Businesses Need to Rethink Cyber Risks for Work-from-Home Employees
- What Is the No. 1 Emerging Litigation Risk? ‘Forever Chemicals,’ Says Praedicat
- House Democrats Ask Why Auto Safety Rules Are Delayed
- House Report Slams FAA, Boeing for ‘Horrific Culmination’ of Failures in 737 Crashes
- Why Does California Keep Burning? These Scientists Are Studying Answers.
- Appeals Court Weighs Harvard University Use of Race as Factor in Admissions
- Casualty Reinsurance Demand Rises in N. America Despite Hardening Primary Rates
- Two Hole-in-One Insurance Programs to Become One
- Boeing Crash Victims’ Families Want Congress to Lift Shield on Planemakers’ Liability
- The Hanover Targets Home-Based Businesses with New Coverage Suite
- Tracking Tool Spotlights Repetitive Flood Loss Homes Receiving U.S. Taxpayer Funds
- OneBeacon Acquires International Bond & Marine Brokerage
- U.S. Court Upholds State Tax on Drugmakers to Defray Opioid Crisis Costs
- Coronavirus Pandemic Will Have Severe Impact on Social Inflation: Fitch’s Mazzuoli
- COVID-19 Crisis Reveals Contract Clarity Lessons, Digital Opportunities: Flandro
- Neptune Flood Expands Coverage to Include All NFIP Classes
- Daimler to Pay $2.2 Billion for Clean Air Violations Over Diesel Emissions
- Reinsurance Sector ‘Stable’ Despite Major Headwinds: AM Best
- Why the Coronavirus Recession Is Not Like the Last Recession
- Lloyd’s Names AIG/Blackboard’s Schoberth to New U.S. Market Development Position
- Reinsurers Enter January Renewals, Focusing on Underwriting Discipline: Carpenter, Aon
- Senators Back Tighter Aircraft Oversight, Quicker Plane Crash Data Disclosure
- Triple Threat: Carrier-Insurtech-Agency Partnerships Can Transform Commercial Lines
- Signs of Heart Damage After Covid Lead to Recommendation to Screen College Athletes
- Does An Employer Have to Say If Coworker Has Coronavirus?
- Meteorologists Tracking Potential Storm Threats Across Atlantic
- New Ransomware Strains Being Unleashed on Businesses During Pandemic
- Munich Re to Stop Selling Pandemic Business Coverage
- Inside Big Pharma’s Stealth War on Drug Price Watchdog: Reuters Special Report
- OSHA Cites Smithfield Foods For Lax Coronavirus Safety for Meat Plant Workers
- Report Urges Urgent Action from Financial Regulators to Address Climate Change
- Ascot Starts E&S Casualty Unit for U.S.; Welcomes AXA’s Roy as Senior VP
- Hospitals, Nursing Homes Fail to Separate COVID Patients, Putting Others at Risk
- Insurance Agencies Get No Break When It Comes to Cyber Liability
- Department Store Blames Insurers As It Files Bankruptcy and Shuts Down
- Marsh’s Klisura Is Moving to Guy Carpenter to Be President
- Schools Find Lessons About Insurance Liability and COVID-19 Are Complicated
- SIS Insure Increases Capacity for Contractors Program Through AF Group
- American Impressionist Painting Missing Since 1995 Turns Up at Museum Exhibit
- Buffett’s Duracell Countersues Energizer, Alleging False Ads Over Battery Life Claims
- Social Inflation, Low Interest Rates, Rising Catastrophes: Recipe for a Hard Market
- Republican Senators Eye Law Shielding Internet Firms From Liability for Postings
- Trump Labor Rule That Narrows ‘Joint Employer’ Standard Struck Down by Judge
- COVID-19 Cast as a Catalyst for Change. Now What?
- Simply Business, AXIS Launch Coverage for Home-Based Small Businesses
- Pullback by Wary Credit Insurers Leaves Suppliers, Retailers in Bind
- 4 Republican Attorneys General Back Trump Social Media Liability Move
- Is It Covered? The Unimpeachable Case of What ‘Are’ Is
- U.S. Commercial Insurance Prices Rose Almost 10% in Q2: WTW
- U.S. Safety Agency Investigating Boeing 787 Dreamliners for Flaws
- Trump Administration Eyes Pilot Program for 18-Year Old Interstate Truck Drivers
- Elephant Insurance Discounts Auto Coverage for Work From Home Customers
- 9 Coronavirus Vaccine Developers Pledge to Uphold Scientific Safety Standards
- Insurance Group Says Safety Technologies Could Stop 40% of Big Truck Rear Crashes
- Tyson Foods to Pilot Medical Clinics for Workers at Some Meat Plants Next Year
- Cyber Attacks Are Seen Pushing Up Risk Premiums for Stocks
- Insurers, Covid-Hit Businesses May Be at Odds Over Interruption Claims for Disasters
- Even If Only Few Use Them, Contact Tracing Apps May Help Curb COVID
- Carlyle Group Leads $150 Million Investment in Alera Group to Fund Acquisitions
- New Commercial Trucking Coverage from Hudson Targets Independent Contractors
- States Told COVID-19 Vaccine Could Be Ready for High Risk Groups in Late October
- How One Hospital Addresses Sexual Harassment Claims and Culture
- Pay-Per-Mile Car Insurer Metromile Signs Deal with Ford
- Internet Companies Urge FCC to Reject Trump Rules on Social Media Liability
- Advisor Drops Opposition to Tesla Director After Change in D&O Insurance
- Accusers Oppose $35M Weinstein Insurance Settlement of Sexual Misconduct Claims
- Ryan Specialty Group and All Risks Finalize Merger
- Insurers Say They’re Having Trouble Recruiting New Employees
- Bayer Appeals $20.5 Million Roundup Damages Award to California Supreme Court
- Insurance Plays Key Role in Civil Rights Settlements Against Law Enforcement
- Lawsuit by Former Black Franchisees Accuses McDonald’s of Racial Discrimination
- Insurer Travelers Reports ‘Mini-Tender’ Offer by TRC Capital; Advises Shareholders Reject
- VP Pence Advisor Troye Joins Insurance Crime Bureau
- Van Kley Joins Willis Towers Watson’s Insurance Consulting Practice
- Why Some Organizations Are Managing Coronavirus Risk Better Than Others
- Home Insurance MGA Hippo Completes Acquisition of Spinnaker Insurance Co.
- Amazon’s Worker Surveillance for Productivity, Safety May Also Curb Unions
- QBE CEO Regan Exits After Investigation Into Female Employee’s Complaint
- Employers Must Pay Employees for All Hours Worked, Including Work at Home
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