California Judges Target Class Actions That Benefit Lawyers Over Consumers March 26, 2019 By Edvard Pettersson Federal judges in California are cracking down on warped incentives in class-action lawsuits, exerting tighter oversight of settlements that provide...
Purdue to Settle Oklahoma’s Opioids Lawsuit Weeks Before Trial to Open March 26, 2019 By Nate Raymond Purdue Pharma LP has agreed to settle a lawsuit by the state of Oklahoma accusing the OxyContin painkiller maker of...
Employers Using Robots to Catch Fraud in Expense Reports March 26, 2019 By Beth Pinsker It sounds like it should have been impossible to miss, but it took more than a year for an industrial...
Supreme Court Rejects Copyright Claim Against Nike’s Michael Jordan Image March 26, 2019 By Greg Stohr The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from a photographer who said Nike Inc. stole key aspects of his iconic...
How to Turn Today’s Confusion Into a Sustainable Cyber Insurance Market March 26, 2019 By Elizabeth Blosfield There has been plenty of talk about how cyber continues to evolve in an ever-changing technology landscape, how cyber risks...
Cohen & Co. Insurance Acquisition Corp. Raises $150 Million in IPO March 26, 2019 Insurance Acquisition Corp., company sponsored by Cohen & Co. and formed for the purpose of acquiring or merging with insurance...
Florida Insurtech HoneyQuote Rolls Out Real-Time Rating Engine, Adds Heritage to Platform March 26, 2019 HoneyQuote.com has added a new carrier partner and launched its real-time rating engine, which lets Florida homeowners compare multiple home...
Western Growers in California Names Floyd Employee Benefits Director March 25, 2019 Western Growers has promoted Darcie Floyd to the insurance services team as the director of employee benefits. Floyd will be...
West Virginia to Receive $14.6M in Federal Funds to Fight Opioid Addiction March 25, 2019 West Virginia will receive $14.6 million in federal funds to fight opioid addiction. U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore...
Arkansas Plant Board Bans Older Dicamba Formulas After Mid-April March 25, 2019 A state panel has voted to ban use of older versions of an herbicide, clarifying rules it previously agreed upon...