Gene Therapy Drugs That Cost Millions Have Employers and Health Plans Worried September 13, 2019 By John Tozzi Employers and health plans fear they could be swamped financially by a coming wave of expensive new genetic therapies for...
Climate Change Tops List of World’s ‘Extreme Risks’ September 12, 2019 By Don Jergler Global temperature change, global trade collapse and cyber warfare are the top three “extreme risks” identified in a study from...
On Second Thought, Insurtech Next Insurance Thinks Agents Have a Role After All September 12, 2019 Next Insurance has begun formally marketing a portal designed to help independent agents quickly quote and sell its policies. Next...
Insurance Marketing Group Taps Berkley’s Foster as Chair; Elects 10 New Directors September 12, 2019 Valerie Foster of Berkley Alliance Managers has been chosen as the executive chair by the Insurance Marketing & Communications Association...
Another Hard Market Harbinger: U.S. Commercial Lines Prices Up 4% in Q2 September 12, 2019 In yet another sign of a hardening market, U.S. commercial insurance prices grew at an accelerated rate compared to a...
Reuters: How Court Lets Merck Hide Baldness Drug Propecia’s Risks September 12, 2019 By Dan Levine By the time Kelly Pfaff got home from driving her son to school that morning, it was too late. Her...
States Split Over Purdue’s $12 Billion Opioid Epidemic Settlement Plan September 12, 2019 By Erik Larson and Katherine Doherty Purdue Pharma LP, maker of the highly addictive Oxycontin painkiller, is pitting state against state with its offer of about...
Hometown Jury Says J&J Must Pay $37.2 Million for Cancers Linked to Baby Powder September 12, 2019 By Jef Feeley Johnson & Johnson must pay at least $37.2 million to four consumers who blamed asbestos-tainted talc for their cancers in...
AXA XL Partners with Insurtech Neptune Flood to Expand Private Flood Insurance September 12, 2019 AXA XL is partnering with digital private flood insurance program manager Neptune Flood in a strategic underwriting partnership that will...
Liberty Mutual Appoints Perez as Chief Underwriting Officer, North America September 11, 2019 Liberty Mutual Insurance has appointed David Perez to the post of chief underwriting officer, North America, for its Global Risk...