Trump Administration Seeks Medical Privacy Changes December 14, 2020 By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Urged on by hospitals, doctors and patients, U.S. health officials are proposing changes to medical privacy rules that could ease...
Insuring Cannabis Summit: Capacity, Vaping Among Issues in Industry Going Forward December 14, 2020 Editor’s note: This is part of a series of articles based on panels and presentations during Insurance Journal’s 2020 Insuring...
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Goldman Stock Price Class Action December 14, 2020 By Jonathan Stempel The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s appeal in a securities fraud case that...
Bipartisan COVID Relief Plan Expected to Put State Aid, Liability Shield in Separate Bill December 13, 2020 By Laura Litvan Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi discussed developments on federal funding, including pandemic relief, during a roughly...
Record Return of Merger Activity Leads to Massive Growth in M&A Insurance Market December 11, 2020 By Carolyn Cohn LONDON – A record rebound in merger activity this year and a rise in litigation has brought with it an...
CRC Group Appoints Koehn and Tredway as Co-Presidents of Brokerage Division December 11, 2020 Nationwide wholesale insurance broker CRC Group reported that Garrett Koehn and Brent Tredway will be appointed co-presidents of the company’s...
Free Shots, Cash Bonus, Firing. Employers Weigh How to Get Employees Vaccinated December 11, 2020 By Erwin Seba and Jessica Resnick-Ault U.S. workers could soon face choices such as free COVID-19 shots and a cash bonus if all get immunized, or...
FDA Expected to Quickly Approve Pfizer’s COVID Vaccine December 11, 2020 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it was working rapidly to issue an emergency use authorization for...
New Capital Entering Market Unlikely to Quickly Soften Rates: Vantage Risk CEO December 11, 2020 By L.S. Howard Greg Hendrick, the CEO and co-founder of the new reinsurance and insurance company Vantage Risk isn’t too concerned about the...
Zurich and Farmers Agree to Buy MetLife’s U.S. P/C Business for $3.94 Billion December 11, 2020 Zurich Insurance and Farmers Exchanges have agreed to buy MetLife’s U.S. property and casualty business for $3.94 billion, the insurers...