AXA announced the death of Stefan Lippe, 65, who has been an AXA Director since 2012, and was the former chief executive officer of Swiss Re Group. Press reports reveal he died of complications from COVID-19. Lippe spent 30 years …
New emergency rules enacted by Illinois workers’ compensation regulators have drawn a lawsuit by a pair of trade associations representing retailers and manufacturers in the state. The Illinois Manufacturers’ Association (IMA) and the Illinois Retail Merchants Association (IRMA) allege in …
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he “disagreed strongly” with the decision by Georgia’s Republican governor to reopen salons, gyms and other nonessential businesses that had been shuttered to contain the coronavirus, saying, “It’s just too soon.” During the daily …
Michael J. Hall, founder of M.J. Hall & Co. and Golden Bear Insurance Co., was a well-respected leader in the admitted and surplus lines industries. Hall, who was 81, died on Tuesday. He established himself early on as an industry …
Florida’s tourism and hospitality industry should reopen from the coronavirus pandemic slowly, focusing first on getting residents to take in-state vacations before branching out to domestic and international travelers, a business subcommittee charged with making recommendations was told Tuesday. Florida’s …
An Illinois industrial device manufacturer will pay $275,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by federal officials. In its lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged IDEC Corporation, unlawfully discriminated when it terminated …
A 16-page set of recommendations for safely re-opening a Louisiana economy staggered by the fight against the new coronavirus was released on April 22 by state business interests as Gov. John Bel Edwards weighed his next move. Louisiana’s current stay-at-home …
Severe weather moved through the South on April 23 after killing at least seven people in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana, including a worker at a factory hit by an apparent tornado, a man whose car was blown off the road …
XPT Partners LLC has acquired Texas-based LP Risk Inc., a full service managing general agency (MGA) and surplus lines broker with a wide range of commercial property/casualty coverages distributed to retail agents through in-house and brokerage markets. Led by Landon …
Some of the world’s largest companies have advised against the use of Zoom Video Communications Inc.’s conferencing app, fueling a growing backlash against a service that shot to prominence during the Covid-19 pandemic. Daimler AG, Ericsson AB and NXP Semiconductors …
