In U.S., 1 in 4 COVID-19 Deaths Are Residents of Nursing Homes June 22, 2020 By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Justin Myers Nursing home residents account for nearly 1 in 10 of all the coronavirus cases in the United States and more...
Online Used Car Retailer Shift Talking Merger With Insurance Acquisition June 22, 2020 By Gillian Tan, Crystal Tse and Katie Roof Shift Technologies Inc., an online retailer for used cars, is in talks to merge with blank-check company Insurance Acquisition Corp.,...
Colleges Asking Returning Athletes to Sign COVID-19 Risk Forms June 22, 2020 By Ralph D. Russo Ohio State calls it the Buckeye Acknowledgment and Pledge, a two-page document the school asked its athletes to sign before...
AmTrust Exec Launches Commercial Crime Product for Businesses June 22, 2020 AmTrust Exec, a division of AmTrust Financial Services, Inc., has introduced a commercial crime product designed to provide coverage for...
AI-Powered Supply Chain Software in Demand Amid Coronavirus Disruption June 19, 2020 By Rajesh Kumar Singh For the past seven years, a Munich-based firm called riskmethods has tried to interest companies in buying software that allows...
Supreme Court Rejects Appeals Over Police ‘Qualified Immunity’ June 19, 2020 By Greg Stohr The U.S. Supreme Court this week refused to take up a new test of “qualified immunity,” rejecting several appeals that...
Justice Department Outlines Proposed Overhaul of Social Media Immunity June 19, 2020 By Ben Brody and Chris Strohm The Justice Department on Wednesday outlined a broad overhaul of legal protections for online platforms such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google...
What It Takes for a New Insurance Agent to Succeed June 19, 2020 By Andrea Wells Developing young talent to become successful young agents is not easy. Chris Burand, president of Burand & Associates, an insurance...
Hotels’ Coronavirus Recovery Offerings Include Robots, Purifiers, Nonstop Elevators June 19, 2020 By Kathryn O'Shea-Evans Set in the kelly-green hills of Ireland’s County Clare, Dromoland Castle is the type of getaway that never sits empty....
Insurers Alert to Avoiding Legionnaire’s Disease Outbreaks as Buildings Reopen June 19, 2020 By Suzanne Barlyn Commercial insurers are scrutinizing building managers’ efforts to avoid outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease as they re-open movie theaters, gyms, schools...