SPAC Mania Anxiety Grows; Bankers, Regulators, Insurers Try to Keep Pace April 1, 2021 By Gillian Tan, Ben Bain, Heather Perlberg and Crystal Tse Anxiety is growing that the wellspring of special-purpose acquisition companies, a 2020s echo of the dot-com mania of the 1990s,...
360 Coverage Pros Launches Tax Preparer Professional Liability Program March 31, 2021 360 Coverage Pros has launched a professional liability insurance program for tax preparers with an online application. The program features...
Distracted Driving Behaviors Increased During Pandemic. Are Bosses to Blame? March 31, 2021 One in four drivers thinks that roads are safer today than they were before the pandemic, yet a growing number...
Supreme Court Could Use TransUnion ‘Terrorist List’ Case to Curb Class Actions March 31, 2021 By Lawrence Hurley The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday signaled it could narrow the scope of a class action lawsuit against TransUnion in...
Tech Firms Under More Scrutiny and Unhappy with Their D&O Insurance March 31, 2021 With premiums rising and carriers narrowing their terms and conditions, technology companies’ satisfaction with their directors and officers (D&O) liability...
It’s Time to Rewrite The Rules That Make U.S. Roads So Deadly: Viewpoint March 31, 2021 By Sara Bronin A 25-year-old Yale Law student. A crossing guard. A 78-year-old woman. A high-school teacher. These are but four of the...
Gen Xers Pass Boomers in Wealth; Inequality on Basis of Race Persists March 31, 2021 By Howard Schneider Crammed between the cultural extremes of the baby boomers and the millennials, members of Generation X saw their wealth jump...
2020’s P/C Insurance Industry Results and What They Mean for 2021 March 31, 2021 By Susanne Sclafane The most recent tallies of financial results by rating agency analysts reveal that the property/casualty insurance industry weathered the storms...
RPS, AXIS Insurance Launch Coverage for Home-Based Businesses March 30, 2021 E&S wholesale broker and managing general agency Risk Placement Services (RPS) has launched an insurance product for home-based businesses with...
Regulators, Watchdog at Odds With Insurance Actuaries Over Withdrawn Documents March 30, 2021 By Susanne Sclafane A task force of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners is asking the board of directors of the Casualty Actuarial...