Japan Post’s Insurance Unit Plans $2.9 Billion Buyback of Shares from Parent December 17, 2020 By Taro Fuse and Taiga Uranaka Japan Post Holdings Co.’s insurance unit plans to buy back about 300 billion yen ($2.9 billion) of shares from its...
Citizens to Delay Rate Increases, For Now December 17, 2020 Citing a flood of new policies entering Citizens Property Insurance Corp. and a growing disparity between its rates and rising...
North Carolina Labor Chief Faces Backlash Over Response to New COVID Rules December 17, 2020 North Carolina worker and civil rights advocates are unhappy with the outgoing state labor commissioner’s refusal to put more regulations...
Tyson Fires 7 Managers at Iowa Plant Over Betting on COVID-19 Cases December 17, 2020 By Uday Sampath Tyson Foods Inc. said on Wednesday it had fired seven managers at an Iowa pork plant after investigating allegations that...
Cannabis Broker Spotlight: Balian with Wood Gutmann Focuses on the Long-Term December 17, 2020 By Don Jergler Editor’s note: This part of a series of profiles on cannabis brokers, in which Insurance Journal explores why and how...
SCA Appraisal in California Promotes Bewley, Napier December 17, 2020 Burbank, Calif.-based SCA Appraisal has named Mark Bewley assistant vice president of field operations. SCA Appraisal has also named Nick...
Cyber Insurers Scale Back as Ransomware Attacks Rise December 17, 2020 By Noor Zainab Hussain and Carolyn Cohn Ransomware attacks increased in terms of both severity and costs this year, forcing insurers to become more selective and even...
New Everest Architects & Engineers Policy Offers PL, Pollution, Cyber Coverage December 17, 2020 Everest Insurance has released a new architects and engineers professional liability policy to provide design professionals with professional, pollution and...
Texas Workers’ Compensation System’s Path to Wellness December 16, 2020 Since 2003, insurance rates in the Texas workers’ compensation system have dropped by nearly 72 percent, according to a new...
Pfizer Vaccine Faces Some Storage, Production, Snowstorm Challenges December 16, 2020 By Rebecca Spalding and Carl O'Donnell The first days of Pfizer Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout have seen unexpected hitches including some vaccines being stored at excessively...