Digital or Plastic? Or Both? States Experiment with Driver’s Licenses April 17, 2019 By Jenni Bergal, Stateline Millions of people may be able to show their smartphones rather than a plastic card to prove they’re legit to...
FDA Halts Sales of Surgical Mesh by 2 Firms Over Injury Claims April 17, 2019 By Michelle Fay Cortez U.S. health regulators ordered two medical device companies to stop selling a surgical mesh used in pelvic repair surgeries, after...
Hanover Offers Agents Small Business Platform Using CoverWallet Technology April 17, 2019 The Hanover Insurance Group is debuting a digital platform to help independent agents acquire new small business customers including freelancers,...
Amenity Analytics Raises $18 Million from Starr, Allstate, Others for Text Analysis Tool April 16, 2019 Starr Companies and Allstate have contributed to an $18 million financing round for Amenity Analytics, a startup developing cloud-based analytics...
Ruling on Stabbing Prompts Calls for National Workplace Violence Prevention Standard April 16, 2019 By Jim Sams A federal commission decision that an employer had a duty to protect a social services worker who was stabbed to...
Farmers Grow to Like Crop of Technologies Helping Them Manage Weather Risk April 16, 2019 By Lydia Mulvany and Brian K. Sullivan When surprise hailstorms hit the 6,000 acres Trevor Scherman plants each year with peas, wheat, canola and lentils, his first...
Supreme Court Denies Drug Maker’s Use of Native American Tribe to Shield Patents April 16, 2019 By Lawrence Hurley The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday cast aside pharmaceutical company Allergan Plc’s unorthodox bid to shield patents from a federal...
Liberty Mutual to Acquire AmTrust’s Surety, Credit Reinsurance Business April 15, 2019 Liberty Mutual Insurance said it has agreed to acquire the global surety and credit reinsurance operations of property/casualty insurer AmTrust...
Contaminated Oil Linked to U.S. Reserves Raises Safety Concerns April 15, 2019 By Catherine Ngai Exxon Mobil Corp. is the latest company to raise concerns that a stockpile of U.S. government crude is tainted with...
Markel Internal Review Finds ‘No Bad Faith’ Related to Loss Reserves Under Investigation April 15, 2019 By Andrew G. Simpson Markel Corp. said that an internal review conducted by outside counsel found “no evidence that personnel of its CATCo unit...