Lawsuit Alleging Anti-Conservative Bias at Google Ends Quietly May 12, 2020 By Robert Burnson A lawsuit that made a big bang in Silicon Valley two years ago with allegations of mistreatment of politically conservative...
Willis Towers Watson Forms Risk Services Group for Distressed Organizations May 12, 2020 Willis Towers Watson has formed a new unit serving companies facing bankruptcy or restructuring. The new unit, Strategic Solutions Group...
Axon Launches Cyber Insurance Program for SMEs May 11, 2020 Axon Underwriting Services, a specialty lines program administrator, has added CyberAdvantage to its suite of specialized insurance products for small...
U.S. Businesses, Patients Sue China Seeking Damages From Coronavirus Outbreak May 11, 2020 By Curt Anderson Before the coronavirus outbreak, Saundra Andringa-Meuer was a healthy 61-year-old mother of six who never smoked or drank alcohol. Then...
For Global Insurers, Pandemic Likely to Erase Profits Until 2021 Second Half: Fitch May 11, 2020 While insurance rates have risen for nine consecutive quarters due to large catastrophe losses and accelerating claims inflation, Fitch Ratings...
Companies Need Safety From Lawsuits If They Protect Workers: Opinion May 11, 2020 By Michael R. Bloomberg, Bloomberg Opinion States that are reopening their economies even as cases of Covid-19 are still rising are threatening their own residents and...
70,000 Crew Members Remain Quarantined on Ships in U.S. Waters May 11, 2020 By Adriana Gomez Licon and Guillermo Garat Carolina Vasquez lost track of days and nights, unable to see the sunlight while stuck for two weeks in a...
COVID-19 Hits Already-Troubled Nursing Home Insurance Market; Brokers Try to Help May 10, 2020 By Amy O'Connor Nursing homes are right in the middle of the deadly coronavirus pandemic hitting the U.S, with more than 28%, or...
As Deaths Rise to 20,000, Nursing Homes Seek Immunity from Lawsuits May 10, 2020 By Bernard Condon, Jim Mustian and Jennifer Peltz Faced with 20,000 coronavirus deaths and counting, the nation’s nursing homes are pushing back against a potential flood of lawsuits...
Q1 Insurtech Fundraising Drops 54% on COVID-19 Disruption: Willis Towers Watson May 8, 2020 Overall funding for insurtech investments decreased by 54% during the first quarter as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, compared...