Kaufman, Burns & Wilcox Promote 16 Including Heckman to New Positions December 9, 2020 H.W. Kaufman Group and its wholesale insurance broker subsidiary Burns & Wilcox announced promotions of 16 associates across nine locations...
Middle Market Firms May Be Untapped Telematics Opportunity December 9, 2020 Middle market business owners may be more interested in vehicle telematics insurance products than their agents realize. Approximately 14 percent...
How to Address the Next Uninsurable Pandemic — A Black Swan Event December 9, 2020 By Lucca de Paoli, Katherine Chiglinsky and Benjamin Robertson There aren’t many contexts where $2 trillion seems like a paltry sum. Then a pandemic comes along. The economic fallout...
New Sirius U.S. Excess & Surplus Unit Begins Writing Environmental Business December 9, 2020 Sirius International Insurance Group Ltd. announced its new U.S.-based excess & surplus lines (E&S) platform, called Sirius Specialty Insurance Co....
States Grapple With Determining Who’s Essential, Who’s Not for COVID Vaccine December 9, 2020 By Tina Bellon and Richa Naidu Companies and industry groups lobbying to get their U.S. workers to the front of the line for COVID vaccination are...
FireEye, Major Cybersecurity Firm for Business and Government, Is Hacked December 9, 2020 By Christopher Bing and Joseph Menn FireEye, one of the largest cybersecurity companies in the United States, said on Tuesday that it had been hacked, likely...
Tracking Odors in Dangerous Places. The Smellicopter Flies to the Rescue. December 8, 2020 One huge advantage of drones is that these little robots can go places where people can’t, including areas that might...
U.S. Commercial Insurance Rates Rise Again in Q3 But Show Signs of Stabilizing December 8, 2020 For the second quarter in a row, U.S. commercial lines insurers enjoyed average rate hikes that neared 10 percent but...
Battery Rivals Duracell, Energizer Agree to End Lawsuits Over False Advertising Claims December 8, 2020 By Jonathan Stempel The makers of Energizer and Duracell batteries have ended two lawsuits accusing each other of advertising false claims to consumers...
As They Focus on COVID-19 Surge, Hospitals Become Targets for Cyber Attacks December 8, 2020 By Wilson Ring and Marion Renault By late morning on Oct. 28, staff at the University of Vermont Medical Center noticed the hospital’s phone system wasn’t...