Coronavirus Raises Insurance Questions But Catastrophe-Tested Insurers Are Prepared February 20, 2020 By Elizabeth Blosfield As the coronavirus outbreak continues to cause concern around the globe, the insurance industry is facing a potentially far-reaching impact...
Insurers Finding It Increasingly Difficult to Fill Vacant Positions February 20, 2020 By Mark Hollmer Most insurance companies plan to either maintain current staffing or add new employees over the next 12 months, The Jacobson...
4Q Earnings Briefs: Trupanion, United Fire, FNF February 19, 2020 Trupanion Trupanion Inc. (TRUP) reported fourth-quarter net income of $636,000, after reporting a loss in the same period a year...
Everest Insurance Adds 4 Underwriters to E&S Casualty Excess Group February 19, 2020 Everest Insurance has added four underwriters within its Excess & Surplus Casualty Excess group. The new members of the group...
Homeland Security Reports Ransomware Attack Shut Gas Pipeline Facility for Two Days February 19, 2020 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has alerted energy and other infrastructure firms to review their cybersecurity after a ransomware...
Justice Department Targets Internet Firms’ Liability Shield February 19, 2020 By Ben Brody Attorney General William Barr is taking aim at a legal shield enjoyed by companies such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google and...
RLI to Offer Samsara IoT Loss Control Services to Trucking, Commercial Auto Clients February 19, 2020 RLI Transportation, a division of RLI Insurance Company, has partnered with Samsara, an industrial IoT company that provides sensors and...
The State of Autonomous Driving: Shuttles vs. Moonshots in Big Stakes Race February 19, 2020 By David Welch May Mobility Inc.’s boxy white-and-green self-driving shuttle pulls up to a damp corner in downtown Detroit. Its big doors swing...
Employment Liability Insurers See Plenty to Worry About, From Biometrics to Harassment February 19, 2020 By Elizabeth Blosfield After Back to the Future 2 was released in 1989, moviegoers could observe Marty McFly as he traveled to his...
Facing Hundreds of Abuse Claims, Boy Scouts of America Files for Bankruptcy February 18, 2020 By Tom Hals The Boy Scouts of America said on Tuesday it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy amid a flood of lawsuits...