Professional Sports Leagues Keeping Close Track of Coronavirus March 2, 2020 By Stephen Whyno Major North American professional sports leagues are talking to health officials and informing teams about the coronavirus outbreak that has...
Agency M&As: Private Equity Still in Driver’s Seat; Digital Agencies Attract Attention March 2, 2020 By Andrew G. Simpson The private equity bandwagon continued to roll through the insurance agency and brokerage mergers and acquisitions territory in 2019. As...
Trucking Can Be Deadly. And Not Just For Truckers.: Viewpoint February 28, 2020 By Justin Fox, Bloomberg Opinion Of the major industries for which the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported workplace fatality rates for 2018, truck transportation was...
Update on Puerto Rico Disaster Recovery February 28, 2020 By Danica Coto The newly appointed U.S. official charged with overseeing disaster recovery in Puerto Rico said this week that while the pace...
Q4 Earnings Briefs: State Auto, National General, Donegal, Safety, Protective February 28, 2020 State Auto Financial State Auto Financial Corp. (STFC) reported fourth-quarter net income of $32.7 million, after reporting a loss in...
Opioid Firms Warn Lawyers’ Bid for 7% Fee Jeopardizes Settlement February 28, 2020 By Tom Hals and Nate Raymond Johnson & Johnson and other drug companies facing thousands of lawsuits over their role in the opioid epidemic have warned...
Global Insurers Face Hefty Claims If Coronavirus Forces Olympics Cancellation February 28, 2020 By Noor Zainab Hussain and Carolyn Cohn Global insurers face a hefty bill if the coronavirus forces the cancellation of the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, with estimates...
Nationwide, Generali Form Joint Venture N2G to Sell Multinational Commercial Lines February 27, 2020 Trieste, Italy meet Columbus, Ohio. Ciao! Hello! Two large insurers — Ohio’s Nationwide and Italy’s Generali — are teaming up...
Time Is Now for Agents to Address Privacy of Customer Data February 27, 2020 By Tom Wetzel New regulations, insurer pressure and growing consumer alarm about online security will force agents to act this year to protect...
IMA Group Acquires Behavioral Health Firm PsyBar February 27, 2020 Tarrytown, N.Y-based employment services firm The IMA Group (IMA) has acquired PsyBar, a specialty provider of behavioral health, independent medical...