2020 Hurricane Season Set Multiple Records December 3, 2020 A record-setting Atlantic hurricane season that saw the highest number of named storms officially came to a close Monday. The...
U.S. Employers Have Right to Mandate COVID-19 Vaccine. But Will They? December 3, 2020 By Tina Bellon Private U.S. companies have the right under the law to require employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19, but are unlikely...
Insuring Cannabis Summit: Newly Legal States Could Yield $6B in Next 5 Years December 2, 2020 By Don Jergler Editor’s note: This is part of a series of articles based on panels and presentations during Insurance Journal’s 2020 Insuring...
China Renews OK of Oceanwide’s Stalled $2.7 Billion Purchase of Genworth December 2, 2020 U.S.-based Genworth Financial Inc. reported that Chinese officials have renewed their approval of China Oceanwide Holdings Group’s acquisition of Genworth’s...
Crum & Forster Acquires Aspen’s Food and Beverage Product Recall Business December 2, 2020 Specialty insurer Crum & Forster (C&F) has acquired the renewal rights of Aspen’s U.S. food and beverage product recall insurance...
Lockton Adds 3 Managing Directors from Aon to Its Transaction Liability Practice December 2, 2020 Global insurance broker Lockton reports that three transaction liability advisors from Aon — Joshua Halpern, Gaurav Sud and Eric Ziff...
Former Tesla Employee Settles Over Theft of Trade Secrets, False Claims to Media December 2, 2020 By Jonathan Stempel A former Tesla Inc. factory employee will pay Elon Musk’s electric car maker $400,000 after it accused him of tipping...
Trumps Want Court to Approve Arbitration for Marketing Fraud Lawsuit December 2, 2020 By Jonathan Stempel A lawyer for Donald Trump on Tuesday urged a federal appeals court to halt a lawsuit accusing the U.S. president...
Health Workers, Nursing Homes Should Get First COVID Vaccines, Says CDC December 2, 2020 By Julie Steenhuysen and Manojna Maddipatla A panel of advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday voted 13 to 1...
Supreme Court Justices Tackle Company Liability for Human Rights Abuses December 2, 2020 By Lawrence Hurley U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared wary of barring lawsuits against American companies over alleged human rights abuses abroad...