Supreme Court Justices Signal Flexibility in Patent Infringement Damages February 25, 2016 By Andrew Chung The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday signaled a willingness to give federal judges more discretion to boost penalties for patent...
U.S. Says Coal Mine Companies Should Cover Full Cleanup February 25, 2016 By Patrick Rucker The ailing coal industry must face the costs of cleaning up spent mines even as companies get pushed toward bankruptcy,...
BB&T to Buy Swett & Crawford for $500M February 24, 2016 By Andrew G. Simpson Three months after it announced it would sell its North American operations, U.K.-based wholesale and reinsurance broker Cooper Gay Swett...
IronPro Enhances Cyber Policy Risk Management Services February 24, 2016 IronPro, the professional liability unit of Ironshore Inc., is introducing a suite of enhanced risk management services for cyber policyholders....
Startup Lemonade Bets Behavioral Science Can Help Insurance Not Suck February 24, 2016 By Andrew G. Simpson A company that openly berates the current insurance industry as one that sucks believes that adding behavioral science to the...
Kalteux, Deich Head New Great American Executive Liability Offices in Atlanta, Denver February 24, 2016 Great American Insurance Group’s Executive Liability Division has opened regional offices in Atlanta and Denver. The Atlanta regional office is...
Investors Shunning Once-Hot Cybersecurity Startups February 24, 2016 By Heather Somerville and Jim Finkle The U.S. cyber security industry, once one of the hottest targets for venture capitalists, is now grappling with a funding...
Health Insurance Startup Oscar Narrows Hospital Networks to Compete February 24, 2016 By Zachary Tracer Oscar Health Insurance Corp. CEO Mario Schlosser has found the strategy he says will build his startup into a million-customer...
Berkley FinSecure Partners with Law Firm to Offer EPL Risk Management Tools February 24, 2016 Berkley FinSecure, a W. R. Berkley Company, has partnered with Jackson Lewis P.C. to offer employment practices risk management assistance...
Insurance Industry Analyzes Google’s Failed Online Insurance Experiment February 23, 2016 By Don Jergler The insurance industry had a lot to say about what Google did wrong a day after the search engine giant...