National News for June 2022
- Survey: Broad Support for Renewables, Gap in Climate Change Awareness
 - Gunmakers Face New Legal Threat From Families of Mass Shooting Victims
 - More Insurers to Offer Better D&O Coverage to Businesses With Robust ESG Frameworks: Marsh
 - Over 20 New E&S Entrants Reshaping Marketplace: RPS
 - Getting the Measure of Inflation for the (Re)insurance Industry
 - Whole Foods Workers Lose Appeal Over ‘Black Lives Matter’ Masks
 - P/C Industry to Finish 2022 in the Red With Combined Ratio Over 100: S&P
 - US Farmers Battle Floods, Heat in Bid to Replenish Food Supplies
 - Mass Shooting Insurance Rates Jump as Incidents Rise
 - ‘It’s Not Been Fun’: Cyber Insurance Brokers Seek Consistency as Hard Market Settles
 - U.S. Power Companies Face Supply-Chain Crisis This Summer
 - Don’t Count Out Insurtech Disrupters, Carrier CEOs Say
 - U.S. Vehicle Quality Hits 36-Year Low as Supply, Labor Woes Continue: J.D. Power
 - How Addressing Socioeconomic Inequality Is Key to Building Flood Resilience
 - Today Is National Insurance Awareness Day
 - Juul and Its Courtroom Foes Stare Down FDA Ban as Youth Marketing Trial Nears
 - Cyber Pirates Prowling Ship Controls Threaten Another Big Shock
 - Judge Orders New Trial in Tesla Worker’s Race Bias Lawsuit
 - U.S. Supreme Court Sides With Doctors Challenging Opioid Convictions
 - Hertz Makes Settlement Offers to End False Arrest Lawsuits
 - People Moves: CoreLogic Names Dodd CEO; CAC Specialty Adds 4 to Senior Living Team; McCann Joins Lockton Re; Canopius Appoints Lee General Counsel
 - Supreme Court Backs Football Coach Fired After Praying on the Field
 - U.S. Supreme Court Again Nixes Bayer Challenge to Weedkiller Suits
 - NYC, Miami, Tampa, New Orleans Tops Among Storm-Surge Exposed Cities
 - SMBs Are Struggling to Get Cyber Insurance: Here’s How to Stay Protected
 - Wall Street Banks Quietly Test Cyber Defenses at Treasury’s Direction
 - Legal Clashes Await U.S. Companies Covering Workers’ Abortion Costs
 - Cyber Insurtechs and Insurers ‘In This Together,’ Not in Competition
 - Walgreens Reaches $105 Million Settlement With Shareholders
 - Marijuana Banking Overhaul Removed from China Competition Bill
 - People Moves: MMC Names Jones, Hageman to Senior Posts; Lockton Welcomes Marsh’s Millett for Innovation; Applied Financial Builds Cyber Risk Team
 - Hackers Steal $100 Million by Exploiting Crypto’s Weak Link
 - How to Lower Home Insurance Premiums and Wildfire Risks
 - How a Bankruptcy ‘Innovation’ Halted Thousands of Lawsuits from Sick Plaintiffs
 - Supreme Court Voids New York Gun Permit Law, Establishes Right to Carry Outside Home
 - Markets/Coverages: Skyward, InShare Offer Gig Accident Cover; London Underwriters Adds Slice; Hippo Grows Mortgage Channel
 - New Research Reveals U.S. Gas Pipeline Leaks Have Not Improved
 - People Moves: Safety National Shuffles Management, Names Hercules New CEO
 - What Factors Could Drive Northern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone Risk This Season?
 - Russian Hackers Also Focused on US and NATO Since Invasion
 - Tesla Worker Rejects $15M Payout in Race Bias Lawsuit
 - Juul Soon to Be Ordered Off the Market by FDA, WSJ Reports
 - NFL Says Black Coaches’ Discrimination Case Should Be Resolved in Arbitration
 - Corporate America Looks for Leeway on U.S. Climate Disclosures
 - U.S. Solar Developers to Spend $6 Billion to Boost Domestic Supply Chain
 - Agent-Focused Home Insurer Openly Closes $75 Million Funding Round
 - Buffett’s Dairy Queen Loses Lawsuit Over ‘Blizzard’ Name
 - New Layer of Federal Oversight for Climate Disclosures Not Needed: Triple-I
 - Challenge to SEC ‘Gag’ Rule Turned Away by Supreme Court
 - Captives, MGAs, MGUs Contribute to Growing Cyber Insurance Market
 - Bayer Rejected by US Supreme Court in Bid to End Roundup Suits
 - Tesla Sued by Former Employees Over ‘Mass Layoff’
 - Preparing for InsurTech’s Second Act: Embedded Insurance
 - Miles Davis Photographer’s Suit Against Tattoo Artist Von D to Test Copyright ‘Fair Use’
 - Insurance Technology: eDriving Adds Safety App Without Telematics; Notion Offers Sensor Upgrade; HUB Debuts Personal Lines Platform VIU
 - Lyft Reaches $25 Million Settlement of Claims it Hid Safety Problems Before IPO
 - ‘Forever Chemicals’ Pose Risk Even at Very Low Levels: EPA
 - JAB to Acquire Fairfax’s Pet Insurance Stake in Crum & Forster, PetHealth
 - EPA Ordered to Reassess Glyphosate’s Impact on Health, Environment
 - Musk Appeals Ruling That Upheld Securities Fraud Settlement
 - U.S., Partners Dismantle Russian Hacking ‘Botnet,’ Justice Dept Says
 - People Moves: Amica Names Shallcross as CEO to Succeed DiMuccio
 - Porsche to Pay $80 Million to Resolve Fuel Economy Claims on U.S. Vehicles
 - FTC Fires Warning Shot at Drug Middlemen Over Rebates, Fees
 - Appeals Court First to Rule in Favor of Coverage for COVID Shutdown
 - Nasdaq Urges SEC Not to Move Ahead with Climate Disclosure Plan
 - Elon Musk Sued for $258 Billion Over Alleged Dogecoin Pyramid Scheme
 - People Moves: Liberty Mutual Promotes Foley, Ughetta; Ex-Regulator Joins Lemonade
 - Buffett Donates $4 Billion to Charity
 - Gunmaker Sig Sauer Sued by Veteran Claiming Pistol Goes Off by Itself
 - Tesla Leads in Driver-Assisted Technology Crashes: NHTSA
 - Ford Recalls 3.3 Million Vehicles Over Rollaway Concerns
 - Markets/Coverages: Beazley Starts D&O for Crypto Companies; Notion PRO New 24/7 Professional Home Monitoring
 - From Pandemic to Cyber War, Clear Policy Wording Is Key for Insurers
 - The SEC War on Greenwashing Has Begun
 - Rudolph Giuliani Sues Smartmatic to Recoup Legal Fees in Fox News Lawsuit
 - Financial Firms to SEC Over Proposal to Regulate SPACs: ‘Don’t Kill the Industry’
 - Umpire Hernandez Appeals Dismissal of Bias Complaint Against Major League Baseball
 - Markets/Coverages: BTIS and RLI Cater to Home-Based Businesses; Cover Genius Targets Midsize Retailers with Warranty App
 - Keeping Up With Demand for Cybersecurity Professionals
 - Deutsche Bank Investors Can Sue in U.S. Over Epstein, Russian Oligarch Ties
 - Oracle Corp. Women Stumble in Pay Bias Suit While Google Cuts a Deal
 - Many Business Leaders Feel Unprepared for Growing Geopolitical Risks, Inflation
 - Medical Professional Liability Insurance Market Improves but Still Unprofitable
 - Sterling Jewelers Reaches $125 Million Settlement in Long-Running Sex Bias Case
 - Binance U.S. Exchange Sued by Crypto Investor Over Stablecoin Collapse
 - ESG Fund Bosses Hit by ‘Reckoning’ as Goldman, DWS in Crosshairs
 - Markets/Coverages: Skyward Specialty’s Renewable Energy Cover; IMA, Parametrix Downtime Policy; Contractor Safety Discounts From Procure, Shepherd
 - Charles Schwab Subsidiaries to Pay $187 Million to Settle SEC Charges
 - Supreme Court Takes No Action on Bayer Bid to Nix Weedkiller Suits
 - UniFi Group to Acquire Controlling Stake in National Flood Services
 - Report Casts Doubt on Net-Zero Emissions Pledges by Big Global Companies
 - Google Agrees to Pay $118 Million to Settle Pay Equity Suit
 - Simone Biles, Other Women Seek $1 Billion-Plus From FBI Over Nassar
 - Chubb Not Declaring Itself Net Zero, CEO Greenberg Says
 - Supreme Court to Soon Decide Whether to Hear Bayer’s Weedkiller Case
 - U.S. Agency Upgrades Tesla Autopilot Safety Probe, Step Before Possible Recall
 - Concerned Scientists: Climate Ties U.S. Wildfires and Water Together in Many Ways
 - Alleghany Stockholders Approve Sale to Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway
 - Howden Group to Acquire TigerRisk Partners to Create ‘Much-Needed’ Fourth Reinsurance Broker
 - Liberty Mutual Chairman and CEO Long to Retire; Sweeney Named Successor
 - Workers Compensation Catastrophes: Past, Present, and Future
 - Hurricane Chief to Take Over as Weather Service Director
 - Insurance Bundler Branch Raises $147M, Touts Unicorn Status
 - FTC Says $1 Billion Lost in Cryptocurrency Scams Since 2021
 - Cybersecurity Groups Push US to Boost Collaboration on Hacks
 - House Committee to Hold Hearing on Soaring U.S. Traffic Deaths
 - U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear COVID Business Interruption Case
 - Pressure Growing to Remove PFAS from Fast Food Wrappers
 - A Look at OSHA’s Top 10 Safety Violations
 - U.S. Senators Unveil Bill to Regulate Cryptocurrency
 - People Moves: Hippo Names McCathron as CEO; M&A Insurance Platform io.insure Adds Staff for U.S.
 - J.M. Smucker to Take $125 Million Hit From Jif Peanut Butter Recall
 - Hospitals Confront Their Climate Achilles Heel: Supply Chains
 - CEO-Worker Pay Gap Jumps in 2021 at Low-Wage Companies
 - U.S. Supreme Court Rules Southwest Airlines Cannot Force Wage Suit Into Arbitration
 - Under Strain From Sex Abuse Claims, Boy Scouts Selling Off Camp Properties
 - ‘Top Gun’ Heirs Sue Paramount Over ‘Top Gun: Maverick’
 - People Moves: Mourad Named President of Verisk Claims; Marsh’s Evans Joins Risk Strategies Entertainment; Roamly Hires Root, Good Sam Execs
 - Mariah Carey Sued for Copyright Infringement Over Iconic Christmas Song
 - Musk Says He May Drop Twitter Deal if Fake-Account Data Not Provided
 - Cyber Continues as Outlier in Otherwise Stabilizing Commercial P/C Market: USI
 - Self-Fulfilling Rankings Boost Rating Agency Power: Researcher
 - Tesla Faces Increase in Complaints Over ‘Phantom Braking’
 - Uvalde Parents and Teacher Seek Documents From Gun Maker After School Shooting
 - Colorado St. Hurricane Team Now Forecasts ‘Well Above-Average’ Hurricane Season
 - LexisNexis Acquires Home Inspection Tech Firm Flyreel
 - Amazon Accused of Obstructing House Probe of Deadly Tornado
 - Federal Investigators to Review FDA Response to Baby Formula Recall
 - Jury Sides With Johnny Depp in Libel Case, Awards Him $10M
 - FEMA Pushing for Stronger Building Codes Nationwide
 - ‘Pay-As-You-Go’ Workers’ Compensation MGA Hourly Raises $27 Million
 - Insurance Technology: Flood Data From Arturo and ICEYE; Weather Intelligence From Verisk; Home Valuations from CAPE Analytics
 - FEMA Fund of Recovery Firms Debuts as Disasters Grow More Damaging, Costly
 - U.S. Nuclear Power Regulator Backs NuScale Design After Quake Safety Review
 - Gunmaker Shareholders Back Human Rights Impact Reporting Resolution
 - Weather’s Unwanted Guest: Nasty La Nina Keeps Showing Up
 - Dry Winter, Wet Spring Shrink U.S. Wheat Crop, Adding to Global Woes From War
 - North Atlantic Hurricane Season Begins With Ripe Conditions for Above-Average Activity
 - ‘The Phones Started Ringing Right Away’: Cat Modeling Pioneer Karen Clark Recalls Hurricane Andrew
 - U.S. Product Recalls Reach 10-Year High in Q1
 - Small Nuclear Power Projects May Have Big Waste Problems
 - Sarah Palin Loses Bid to Disqualify Judge from NY Times Defamation Trial
 - Insurance Broker Acrisure Touches $23 Billion in Valuation After Latest Funding
 
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