Recent Insurance Industry News

U.S. Labor Judge Nixes McDonald’s Deal to Avoid Joint Employer Tag

• MGM Files Suit to Limit Liability for Las Vegas Shooting

• Doctors Sue Anthem Over Denial of Emergency Room Charges

• Ford to Pay Consumers $299 Million to Settle Takata Airbag Lawsuit

• ISO Grows Fire Hydrant Database by 700K

• Court Finds Travelers Crime Policy Covers Money Transfer Loss Due to Email Spoofing

Reinsurers, Insurtech Startups Increasingly Seek Mutually Beneficial Partnerships

• MGAs Working with Insurtech Firms to Bolster Customer Centricity: Survey

• Some Recreational Cannabis Products to Remain Banned Under New Canada Law

• Lindeboom Retires as Co-Managing Director of THB Europe, Succeeded by Borges

• Industry Needs to ‘Question and Call Out’ Rogue MGAs, Says Chilton of Gallagher

• Loss Estimate for Europe’s Storm Friederike (aka DAVID) Rises to €1.7B ($2.0B): PERILS

First Driverless Shuttle Demonstration Held in NYC by COAST Autonomous

• Fired Worker in Massachusetts Argues Pot Use Didn’t Violate Company Policy

• Massachusetts’ Arbella Insurance Appoints O’Donoghue as VP of Sales, Marketing

• Risk Strategies Acquires Maryland’s Oxford Risk Management Group

• Business Council Touts Workers’ Comp Savings in New York

• KBW Hires Sarkar to Its Insurance Investment Banking Group in New York

State Farm Not Liable for Wisconsin Hunter’s Injuries

• Police Close to Decision on Charges in Fatal Wisconsin Blast

• Feds Investigating Crane Vs. Power Line Worker Death at Ohio Home

• Legal Experts See Obstacles for J&J Appeal of $4.7 Billion Talc Verdict

• Minnesota Lawsuit Takes on Involuntary Sedations

• Michigan Governor Wants to Sue 3M for Costs of Contamination

SCM Acquires Affirmative Risk Management in Arkansas

• Oklahoma Attorney General Assembles Team of Lawyers over Marijuana Rules

• Oklahoma City Spending to Improve Traffic Issues, Prepping for Self-Driving Cars

• Baylor in Texas Settles Suit with Woman Who Accused Players of Rape

• New Orleans Won’t Have to Return $2B in Hurricane Katrina Grants

• Conservative States Like Oklahoma Balk at Voter-Approved Medical Marijuana

Worker Killed at North Carolina Campbell’s Soup Plant

• Alabama Farmer Pleads Guilty in $919K Crop Insurance Scam

• Fire Sparked by Air Conditioning Unit at Tennessee Assisted Living Facility Injures 1

• EPIC Insurance Brokers Adds Close to Energy Construction Practice in Alabama

• Health Officials Investigating Tennessee Zipline Sickness Outbreak

• 5 Southeast States Participate in Speed Enforcement Operation

Uber Said to be Facing Probe into Alleged Gender Discrimination

• Monsoon Brings 100-Year Flooding Event to Arizona

• Passenger Bus Crash in New Mexico Kills 3, Injures 24

• Washington Asbestos Removal Company Fined $229K for Unsafe Conditions

• Mueller Industries Settles Disability Discrimination Suit in California for $1M

• The Dentists Insurance Co. in California Names Spinelli CEO