U.S. Updates Guidance on COVID Vaccine Mandates, Incentives, Privacy in Workplace June 1, 2021 Federal employment laws do not prevent an employer from requiring all employees physically entering the workplace to be vaccinated for...
AssuredPartners Acquires Anchor Pardue Insurance of Alabama June 1, 2021 AssuredPartners has acquired Anchor Pardue Insurance of Mountain Brook, Ala. Anchor Pardue is the second acquisition in May for Assured...
FEMA Approves More Flood Aid for 22 Kentucky Counties June 1, 2021 Kentucky’s request for individual assistance for 22 additional counties hit by severe flooding has been approved by the Federal Emergency...
Generali Launches $1.4 Billion Bid to Buy Remaining Shares of Italy Rival Cattolica June 1, 2021 By Sonia Sirletti Italy’s largest insurer Assicurazioni Generali SpA launched a 1.2 billion-euro ($1.4 billion) bid to buy all the shares it doesn’t...
Employees Sue Texas Hospital Network to Halt Vaccine Mandate May 31, 2021 By Derek Francis A group of 117 healthcare workers at a Texas hospital filed a lawsuit in state court against their employer’s mandate...
5 More Plead Guilty in New Orleans Staged Truck Accident Cases May 28, 2021 By Stephanie K. Jones Five more individuals have pled guilty to their involvement in insurance fraud schemes arising out of staged automobile accidents with...
AM Best Withdraws Credit Ratings of First American Property & Casualty and First American Specialty May 28, 2021 AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of B++ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings of “bbb” (Good)...
CWCI: California Workers’ Comp Direct Written Premium Fell 11.4% in 2020 May 28, 2021 Total direct written premium in the California workers’ compensation system fell by 11.4% in 2020, dropping to an eight-year low...
Big Oil May Face More Climate Lawsuits After Shell Ruling, Say Lawyers, Activists May 28, 2021 By Shadia Nasralla and Tom Hals LONDON – A Dutch court’s decision to force Royal Dutch Shell to make deeper, faster cuts to its climate warming...
People Moves: WTW’s Hegelbach to Newly Created Renewable Energy Role at Howden; Browne Is Division President, Consumer Lines, APAC, for Chubb May 28, 2021 Howden Specialty announced the appointment of Severin Hegelbach as divisional director. In this newly created role, Hegelbach will lead a...