Workers’ Compensation Remained Outlier as Commercial Prices Continued Rising in Q4 March 9, 2021 U.S. commercial insurance prices again grew significantly in the fourth quarter of 2020. Again, except for workers’ compensation. According to...
Auto Insurance Shopping Stabilizes, State-Level Competition Intensifies: J.D. Power March 9, 2021 By Tom Super As the country hits the one-year mark of the arrival of COVID-19, auto insurance industry trends are beginning to show...
EEOC Probes Facebook for ‘Systemic’ Racial Bias in Employment Practices: Reuters March 9, 2021 By Paresh Dave A U.S. agency investigating Facebook Inc. for racial bias in hiring and promotions has designated the probe as “systemic,” attorneys...
Insurers, Abuse Victims Blast Boy Scouts Reorganization Plan March 9, 2021 By Randall Chase The official committee representing child sex abuse victims in the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy has agreed to give the...
Fitch Sees 2020’s Personal Auto Insurer Profits as Unsustainable March 8, 2021 Highly profitable sub-90 personal auto combined ratios recorded by 10 publicly traded property/casualty insurers in 2020 don’t look anything like...
Demand for Travel Insurance Takes Off As More Destinations Require Coverage March 8, 2021 By Allison Lampert and Noor Zainab Hussain COVID-19 insurance policies are increasingly joining passports and sunscreen as vacation staples, creating opportunities for insurers as more countries require...
White House Warns of Hack of Microsoft’s Outlook Email Program March 8, 2021 By Jeff Mason The White House on Sunday urged computer network operators to take further steps to gauge whether their systems were targeted...
The 2021 Insurance Landscape for Surgeons in the Wake of COVID-19 March 8, 2021 By Max Schloemann This year is looking to be one of changes and big possibilities for surgeons. While 2020 brought declines in surgical...
Sierra Specialty Launches Nationwide Agribusiness Program March 8, 2021 Sierra Specialty has launched an agribusiness program now available in all 50 states. Sierra Specialty has sole authority to underwrite,...
Hacks of Microsoft Outlook Email Program Continue Despite Patch March 7, 2021 By Trevor Hunnicutt, Raphael Satter and Joseph Menn More than 20,000 U.S. organizations have been compromised through a back door installed via recently patched flaws in Microsoft Corp.’s...