A California Court of Appeals has upheld the state’s decision to exclude temporary staffing agencies from self-insuring for workers’ compensation, a ruling that upholds one of the provisions in the state’s sweeping workers’ comp reform law passed in 2012. The …
The Florida Department of Financial Services (DFS) will not appeal the recent jury decision that found Deloitte & Touche not liable in the insolvency of Tampa-based Poe Financial Group following the unprecedented series of hurricanes in 2004 and 2005. In …
A Los Angeles gym is facing a lawsuit from the three kids of a man who had a heart attack and died while working out. Marc Palotay’s son and two daughters filed the lawsuit in May seeking automatic defibrillator because …
North Carolina’s workers’ compensation system had the highest indemnity benefits per claim of 17 states in a recent Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) study, which serves as a baseline to observe the effects of the state’s 2011 workers’ comp reforms. …
The workers’ compensation industry must contend with a fast-growing on-demand economy where jobs are filled via apps and more employees are temporary contractors. “Technology is changing how we think about jobs,” Dr. Robert Hartwig, president of the Insurance Information Institute …
Pharmacies and doctors who negligently prescribe pain medication can be sued for enabling people’s addictions, the West Virginia Supreme Court ruled. The ruling last month involved 29 people who were patients of Mingo County, W. Va.’s Mountain Medical Center. Most …
A lower court was right to dismiss a man’s claim that his auto insurance company should pay his costs in a wrongful death case for a crash he caused because the insurer didn’t push him to have more coverage, the …
Cyber is one of the fastest growing risks for companies across the globe, and information technology assets are often as valuable as property assets, yet companies are only protecting 12 percent of those assets compared to 51 percent of tangible …
An insurance industry-backed crime watch group is warning about an organized auto sales scam involving the popular online marketplace, Craigslist. Working with law enforcement agencies in the Chicago area and across the Midwest, the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) says …
The use of drones could become common practice for almost 40 percent of businesses in fewer than five years, according to corporate risk managers. Those same risk managers say they will buy drone insurance even if it’s not mandated. Munich …
