National News for October 2019
- Bain, Vista Said to Be Weighing Sale of Software Firm Vertafore. Could It Bring $5 Billion?
- Report: Cannabis Dispensaries May Become ‘Most Profitable’ Specialty Stores
- Industry Applauds House Panel Backing of Terrorism Reinsurance Renewal
- States Eye Private Flood Insurance Model Law Industry Thinks Is Unnecessary
- Court Orders Replay of Song Copyright Case Against Taylor Swift
- Selective Insurance Taps Marchioni to Succeed Murphy in 2020 as CEO
- Insurance Cost Strategy Key to Lyft’s Path to Profitability
- Automakers Face Independents in Battle Over Car Tech Repair Aftermarket
- Miami Specialty Risk Launches Lloyd’s-Backed Cyber, Technology E&O Facility
- Markel Adds Cybersecurity Risk Management Tool to Cyber Products
- Chubb Continued Performing at ‘High Level’ in Q3
- Study Shows Need for Drug Programs for Construction Workers at Risk
- How Specialty Carriers Approach Product Innovation: Research, Repeat and Reuse
- Blending Generations: Why Millennials, and the Industry, Must Bridge the Gap
- Hemp and CBD Remain Risky Businesses in Uncertain Legal and Gig Climate
- SEC Investigating Valic, AIG’s Teacher Retirement Plan Unit, Reports WSJ
- Ransomware Attacks Rise 37% in Q3, Targeting IT Vendors, Their Clients: Beazley
- Beazley Beefs Up U.S. Large Property Team with Berkshire’s Westhoff, Ironshore’s Irwin
- Lowsley Joins Hanover from Navigators as Chief Human Resources Officer
- Vehicles’ Pedestrian Warning Systems Need Improvement, Says IIHS
- Markel Adds Cyber Security Tool WhiteHaX for Cyber Insurance Customers
- Study Finds El Niños Getting Stronger
- Officials Warn Vaping Illness Hasn’t Peaked, Cause of Illnesses Still Unknown
- Autonomous Deliveries Will Likely Catch on Before Taxis, Says Waymo CEO
- Give Technology Some Credit for Happier Auto Insurance Customers
- Students Sue Colleges for Saying No to Medical Cannabis
- Moody’s Upgrades AmWINS Ratings
- Poll Shows #MeToo Movement Is Changing Workplace Conversations, Behavior
- Senators Introduce Safety Legislation to Address Boeing 737 Issues
- Walmart, CVS and Rite Aid Yank Recalled J&J Baby Powder Off Shelves
- AIG Expanding at Lloyd’s With New Unit for U.S. High-Net Worth Market
- Insurtech Funding Reaches $4.4 Billion to Date in 2019, Blowing Past Full-Year 2018
- Profit Lessons in Commercial Auto, Workers Comp and Other Business
- How Exxon’s Climate Change Trial Ended Up Being About Numbers
- A.M. Best Won’t Publish Its Carrier Innovation Scores At First
- Sompo International Adds Email Security Review Services to Cyber Policies
- New Mexico Explains Role in Enabling Applied Underwriters Sale
- IBHS Chief Continues to Ask Congress to Embrace Tax Credits for Climate Resilience
- Several States Have Doubts About $48 Billion Opioid Settlement Offer
- Start-Up Constellation Holdings Has $500M from Canadian Investors to Invest in Insurers
- Google Denies Claims It Developed Tool to Spy on Its Employees
- Employers Taking Proactive Health Steps to Prevent Costly Employee Injuries
- Ex-DuPont CEO Claims No Intent to Burden Chemours with Unlimited Liabilities
- Insurance Agency BRP Group’s IPO Starts Today at $14 a Share
- Applied Underwriters Responds to California Department of Insurance Effort to Halt Sale
- Marketing, Innovation Chief Williams Leaving Nationwide; Jones, Mahaffey to Assume Roles
- Last Chance to Participate in Insurance Journal’s Agency E&O Survey
- Newer Cars with Safety Features Cited for Reduction in Highway Crash Deaths
- Supreme Court Allows City, State Claims Against Energy Firms Over Climate Costs
- It’s Not Just Factories Turning to Automation to Stem Wage Growth, Boost Earnings
- Tesla’s Futuristic Door Handles Blamed for Death in Crash
- Exxon, New York AG Face Off Over Climate Change Accounting
- Risk Strategies to Offer Cyber Risk Management Platform Underwritten by Berkley
- Companies in Polluting Industries Slow to Disclose Climate Change Risks: Moody’s
- Travelers Q3 Profit Falls on Asbestos, Commercial Liability and Auto Claims
- Exxon Faces Trial Over Claim It Misled Investors About Climate Change Risks
- OSHA’s Top 25 Enforcement Cases Based on Total Penalty
- After Avoiding Ohio Trial, Drug Firms Turn to Local Government Opioid Lawsuits
- UPS Drone Service to Deliver CVS Health Prescriptions to Homes
- Chubb Upgrades Cyber Index, Adds International Data
- Settling Opioid Suits Probably Won’t End the Crisis: Viewpoint
- California Balks at Applied Underwriters Sale, Questions Subsidiary’s Move to New Mexico
- Update on Opioid Lawsuits Against Drugmakers, Distributors
- Financial, Legal Advisors Scamming Elderly Has Become Big Business
- Four Drugmakers Reach $260M Settlement, Ending Opioid Trial Set to Start Today
- Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Consumer Protection Bureau’s Structure
- FTC’s Chopra Tells House Antitrust Panel Big Tech’s Data Practices Threaten Competition
- States Vary Widely in How They Control Workers’ Comp Medical Costs: WCRI
- J&J Recalls Some Baby Powder After FDA Reports Traces of Asbestos
- Venture Insurance Programs Creates Small Business Online Platform
- Agency E&O Survey: Deadline to Participate Approaching
- Munich Re America Taps AXA XL’s Herrera for New Diversity and Inclusion Post
- U.S. to Update Crash Test Standards and Dummies
- James River Insurance Retains Rating After Dropping Its Biggest Customer, Uber
- U.S. Safety Board Wants to Learn Cause of Fatal Uber Autonomous Car Crash
- Judge Calls on Big 3 Drug CEOs to Discuss Opioid Settlement
- J&J Settles Claims by 41 States Over Risks of Vaginal Mesh for $117 Million
- Privacy Law Favored by Tech Firms Gains Support Among House Democrats
- Lyft, Uber Bypass House Panel Hearing on Transportation Safety and Labor Conditions
- Actuaries Estimate Four Years of Opioid Crisis Cost Economy $631 Billion
- Bipartisan Group Calls for Pulling Internet Firms’ Liability Immunity
- Applied Underwriters Sold to Founder in $920M Deal
- AIG Could Become Involved in Defamation Claim Against ‘Illiquid’ Elon Musk
- Why Big Internet Firms Think They Should Remain Shielded from Content Liability
- CNA Names James as Chief Risk Officer; Appoints Miralles President of Warranty
- Three Major Drug Distributors Negotiating to Settle Bellwether Opioid Case: WSJ
- Bayer Anticipates Jump in Cancer Claims Linked to Roundup’s Glyphosate
- Cannabis Banking Challenges in Legal States Go Far Beyond Pot
- Verifly, Now Thimble, Raises $22M to Fuel On-Demand Insurance Growth
- Private Flood Insurance Growth Could be Boon for Claims Professionals
- Great American Launches Admitted Cyber Product for Small, Medium-Sized Businesses
- Appeals Court Nixes J&J $110 Million Baby Powder Verdict
- Occupational Medical Group Warns Congress Legalized Cannabis Is Workplace Risk
- More Research Needed Into How Crash Risk Is Related to Roadway Design
- Price Forbes Launches U.S. Healthcare Practice Headed by JLT Hires
- Behind the Foggy Curtain: A Peek Into Secret U.S. Cybersecurity Operation
- Auto Insurance Customer Loyalty Is Declining. Here’s Why.
- Does the Cloud of Vaping-Related Injuries Portend a Storm of Litigation? – Cannabis Industry Alert
- Walmart Balks at $5.2 Million Damages Claim for Disability Bias Against Employee
- Facebook Loses Backers for Its Libra Digital Currency But Could Still Proceed
- J&J’s Legal Beating May Only Get Worse with Baby Powder, Opioid, Hip and Other Claims
- Critics Hit SEC Revamp of Wall Street Whistleblower Program
- Berkshire’s MedPro Acquires Swiss Re Corporate Health Care Liability Business
- Bankruptcy Judge Grants Purdue Pharma Time Out from Government Opioid Litigation
- Vaping-Related Illnesses Could be Due to Multiple Causes: U.S. Health Agencies
- What Agents Should Know Before Joining an Insurance Agency Network
- Cyber Insurance Will Reshape Cybersecurity
- How TRIA Would Handle Another 9/11: I.I.I.
- Court Allows Judge Opposed by Drug Firms to Oversee Nationwide Opioid Trial
- Global Safety Regulators Fault U.S., ‘Undue Pressure’ from Boeing for 737 Max Approval
- Travelers Joins MIT Research Groups Focused on Autonomous Transportation
- How States, Cities Compare on Rates of Health Uninsured
- Holocaust Survivors Want Congress to Let Them Sue Insurers Over Nazi-Era Losses
- More States Now Mandate Employee Training to Prevent Sexual Harassment
- Replacing Car Mirrors With High-Tech Cameras May be Closer Than It Appears
- Government Has Bought 43,000 Flood-Prone Homes; Poor Often Left Behind
- Victor O. Schinnerer Increases Capacity for Architects & Engineers through Aspen
- J&J Hit with Year’s Largest Jury Award Over Marketing Risperdal Drug to Teens
- Activists Push Big Index Funds to Back Shareholder Votes on Climate Risk Disclosure
- Insurance Site, Other Businesses Battle Google Search Engine’s Escalating Costs
- Argo Group Under SEC Scrutiny Over Executives’ Compensation
- How Cyber Insurance Supports the Fight AGAINST Ransomware: Marsh
- Supreme Court Justices Appear Divided Over LGBT Workers’ Rights
- How The Hanover Is Investing in Digital Tools for Agents, Customers
- Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Time to Close the Cyber Coverage Gaps
- Food Workers Sue to Stop Trump Plan to Speed Up Pig Slaughterhouse Lines
- Believers in Climate Change No More Likely to Mitigate Than Non-Believers
- 25% of U.S. Health Care Spending Is Waste. Here’s Where to Find It.
- As Many as 40 States Eye Probe of Facebook Over Antitrust, Privacy Concerns
- Southwest Pilots Sue Boeing for Lost Pay, Legal Costs Over ‘Rush’ Sale of 737 Max
- Walgreens, Kroger Join Walmart in Halting Sales of E-Cigarettes
- Corvus Increases Cyber Risk Policy Limits for Insureds Utilizing Security Services
- Supreme Court Lets Stand Claim Applying Disabilities Act to Online Services
- How Drones Are Digitally Transforming Insurance Claims Inspections and Workflows
- Supreme Court Denies Amazon Bid to Skirt State-Based Wage Claims for Security Frisks
- Munich Re Backs Small Business Insurtech Next Insurance with $250 Million
- States Suing Purdue Pharma Claim Sacklers Drew $13 Billion Profit from OxyContin
- Supreme Court Session Opening This Week Faces Controversial Rights Issues
- Vintage Plane Safety Faces Review Following B-17 Bomber Crash That Killed 7
- Berkley DP to Offer $1M Per Project Primary Limits to Design Professional Insureds
- Regulators Looking Into Reports of Tesla ‘Smart Summon’ Parking Lot Incidents
- Carnival Cruise Line Under Renewed Pressure to Comply with Environmental Rules
- Tokio Marine Eyed PURE for Years. Yankees-Red Sox Finally Brought Them Together.
- Vaping-Related Death Count Rises to 18, Illnesses Surpass 1,000: CDC
- Insurers, Tech Firms Scramble to Keep Up With Cyber Risks
- FTC Orders E-Cigarette Makers to Relinquish Advertising, Sales Data
- Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Grows by Another State
- High Hopes, Higher Hurdles for Pro-Cannabis SAFE Banking Act
- Global Insurance Accelerator Boosts Its Funding for Insurtech Startups
- Study Points to Toxic Chemicals as Likely Cause of Vaping Lung Ailments
- Tokio Marine to Buy High Net Worth Insurer Pure for $3.1 Billion
- Investors Betting Against U.S. Mortgage Market Are Banking on Mispriced Flood Risk
- Workplace Quality, Not One Factor, Determines Worker Health, Job Safety: Study
- How the Future of Insurtech Innovation Is Tied to the Traditions of Regulation
- HSB to Offer Leak, Freeze Damage Sensor for Small Businesses
- Hines Joins Everest’s Specialty Insurance Group in Underwriting
- Growth Frenzy Around Middle-Market CLOs Expected to Continue
- New CEO Levinson on Rebuilding Lexington Insurance
- Imagine a World Without Insurance
- Judge Rules Harvard’s ‘Fine Admissions Policy’ Passes Constitutional Test
- UPS Approved to Operate First U.S. Drone Airline for Non-Residential Deliveries
- XPT Group, Watford Insurance Launch Trucking Program for Underserved Risks
- Euclid Insurance Services Taps CNA’s Elliott to Lead New Life Sciences Division
- Third Point Re’s Wilson Joins Hamilton to Head U.S. Casualty, Specialty Reinsurance Unit
- Cyber Tops All Other Risk Concerns for Businesses of All Sizes
- Fellow Drugmakers Eye Purdue’s Bankruptcy As Way to Settle Opioid Claims: WSJ
- Watch Out Insurtechs: Nationwide Readies Own Digital Auto Insurance Platform
- How Restaurant Employees Who Steal Learn From Their Peers
- At $20K a Year, Health Insurance Costs Undermine Job-Based Health Insurance
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