September 19, 2024
An environmental group is suing Tyson Foods for allegedly misleading consumers by saying it will reach net-zero emissions by 2050 and marketing climate-friendly beef without meaningful plans to achieve those goals. The suit was filed on Wednesday by the Washington-based …
September 16, 2024
It looks like the market for directors and officers insurance is shifting, according to Woodruff Sawyer, with the number of renewals seeing flat or price increases for the first time in 18 months. Though 83% of its clients continued to …
September 11, 2024
Norfolk Southern’s CEO Alan Shaw is under investigation for potential ethical lapses, the railroad confirmed Monday. A spokeswoman for the Atlanta-based railroad that is one of North America’s six largest declined to offer any additional details about the nature of …
August 1, 2024
CrowdStrike has been sued by shareholders who said the cybersecurity company defrauded them by concealing how its inadequate software testing could cause the July 19 global outage that crashed more than 8 million computers. In a proposed class action filed …
July 30, 2024
The average price for directors & officers liability insurance decreased 5.2% per $1 million in limits in the second quarter, according to Aon Commercial Risk Solutions. Aon said the decrease compared to the same quarter in 2023 was the ninth …
May 20, 2024
Overall commercial property/casualty premiums increased slightly for all account sizes to 7.7% on average in the first quarter 2024. According to The Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers’ Q1 Market Survey, the 7.7% average increase in Q1 compared to 7% …
April 25, 2024
According to Chubb CEO Evan G. Greenberg, the insurance industry’s underwriting practices for a number of financial lines are “simply dumb.” In a call with analysts to discuss Chubb’s earnings for the first quarter, Greenberg said rates for financial lines …
March 4, 2024
Rating agency AM Best has assigned a negative outlook to the U.S. directors and officers liability insurance segment as more market entrants increase capacity and drive down pricing in the face of some troubling potential risk exposures. “The current pricing …
January 31, 2024
At the height of the SPAC boom, liberated startups capitalized on the ability to tout lofty goals about the years ahead without much of a risk of legal fallout. Now, the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s new rules tightening SPACs’ …
January 31, 2024
The role drug distributor McKesson Corp. had in the opioid crisis was no accident, meaning the company is not entitled to defense costs related to litigation against it. McKesson Corp. appealed a district court’s ruling that subsidiaries of AIG and …