Insureds May be Cooling to Digital Claims Experience November 22, 2021 By David French Policyholders are starting to pull back from digital channels as the COVID-19 pandemic eases and revert to in-person ways to...
California Commissioner Orders FAIR Plan to offer More Commercial Coverage November 19, 2021 California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Friday ordered the FAIR Plan to implement his mandated increases to its decades-old commercial...
AM Best: Credit Ratings of Golden Bear in California Under Review with Negative Implications November 19, 2021 AM Best placed under review with negative implications the Financial Strength Rating of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit...
Down Then Up: Florida Litigated Claims Climbed a Bit in October November 19, 2021 After two months of significant declines, litigated claims for Florida’s largest property and casualty insurers rose 5% in October, a...
Alabama DOI to Hold Hearing on Merger of ProAssurance and Noetic November 19, 2021 The Alabama Department of Insurance will hold a public hearing Dec. 6 on the proposed merger of Birmingham-based ProAssurance Specialty...
Kentucky Contractors’ Self-Insurers’ Fund Returns $27M Dividend November 19, 2021 The Kentucky Associated General Contractors’ Self-Insurers’ Fund will make a $27 million dividend payment to members next spring, the fund...
People Moves: Hiscox Hires Starr’s Buchanan as Casualty Dir.; Sharpe, Griffiths to Inver Re’s Exec Team; Plumptre, Fox Join Blenheim Underwriting’s Political Risk Team November 19, 2021 This edition of International People Moves details appointments at insurer Hiscox, the reinsurance broker Inver Re, and the Lloyd’s managing...
Florida Supreme Court Suspends Witness-Coaching Attorney for 91 Days November 19, 2021 By William Rabb The Florida Supreme Court has suspended a workers’ compensation defense lawyer for 91 days after he was caught coaching a...
$5M Settlement in Arizona Suit over Man’s Death During Arrest November 19, 2021 By Jacques Billeaud Phoenix, Arizona officials agreed to pay $5 million to settle a lawsuit over the January 2017 death of a Black...
Texas Crane Company to Pay $24,000 to Worker Who Refused to Violate Law November 19, 2021 A federal whistleblower investigation led the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to order a Houston mobile...