Can Insurance-Related Firms Compel Employees to Get COVID-19 Vaccination? December 28, 2020 By Bryan Johnson and Samuel Licker The long-awaited and highly anticipated COVID-19 vaccine is here. The first to arrive on the scene, from Pfizer-BioNTech, received emergency...
Insuring Cannabis Summit: Talking to Clients About Risk Starts with Education December 28, 2020 By Don Jergler Editor’s note: This is part of a series of articles based on panels and presentations during Insurance Journal’s 2020 Insuring...
Drug Firms Win Court Bid Halting White House Rule Aimed at Lowering Drug Prices December 28, 2020 By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar A late-term maneuver by President Donald Trump to use lower drug prices paid overseas to limit some of Medicare’s own...
Smaller Websites Nervous Over Giant Facebook’s Support for Liability Reform December 24, 2020 By Todd Shields and Ben Brody Facebook Inc. says it’s time to rethink the legal immunity that protects it from lawsuits over what users post online,...
Social Inflation Lesson: Not Settling Cost Insurer Millions in Suit by Excess Insurer December 23, 2020 By Jim Sams The defense team for Chubb Group’s Ace American Insurance Co. was confident that no jury would award more than $2...
Google Adds Extra Scrutiny of Its Scientists’ Research on ‘Sensitive Topics’ December 23, 2020 By Paresh Dave and Jeffrey Dastin Alphabet Inc.’s Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists’ papers by launching a “sensitive topics” review, and...
Masks Help Curb COVID-19’s Spread But May Not be Enough at Close Distances December 23, 2020 Simply wearing a face mask may not be enough to prevent the spread of COVID-19 without social distancing. In a...
Insuring Cannabis Summit: Legal Cannabis Space Moving at Light Speed December 23, 2020 By Don Jergler Editor’s note: This is part of a series of articles based on panels and presentations during Insurance Journal’s 2020 Insuring...
Challenges Facing Healthcare Pros on COVID Vaccine Frontlines: Q&A with Aon Experts December 23, 2020 Is the U.S. healthcare industry prepared to shoulder the massive responsibility of administering an estimated 300 million COVID-19 vaccinations? Healthcare...
Walmart Denies U.S. Charges It Fueled Opioid Crisis by Filling ‘Illegitimate Prescriptions’ December 23, 2020 By David Shepardson and Mark Hosenball The U.S. Justice Department sued Walmart Inc. on Tuesday, accusing the world’s biggest retailer of fueling the opioid crisis in...