Insurers Expect COVID-19 Liability Claims Against Employers as Employees Return August 6, 2021 By Carolyn Cohn, Noor Zainab Hussain and Kirstin Ridley Liability insurers on both sides of the Atlantic are scaling back the cover they offer companies ahead of an expected...
Alabama Beverage Firm Pays $800K to Settle Racial Discrimination Claims June 7, 2021 A beverage distributor that operates across Alabama and played a role in the state’s craft beer craze agreed to pay...
Cyber Attacks and Data Loss Are Top 2 Risks Facing Directors & Officers: WTW Survey April 23, 2021 By L.S. Howard Cyber attacks and data loss are the top two risks facing directors & officers, with pandemic-related changes in working practices...
Employment Liability Insurers See Plenty to Worry About, From Biometrics to Harassment February 19, 2020 By Elizabeth Blosfield After Back to the Future 2 was released in 1989, moviegoers could observe Marty McFly as he traveled to his...
Markel Launches Standalone EPLI Policy for PEOs July 12, 2019 Markel Corporation has added a standalone employment practices liability policy customized for professional employer organizations (PEOs) to its management liability...
Managing Sexual Harassment Risk in the #MeToo Era May 24, 2019 By Andrew G. Simpson Since October 2017 when the #MeToo era began and sexual harassment claims against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein were revealed, insurers...
Union Claims Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Employee March 21, 2019 By Josh Eidelson A union organizing Amazon.com Inc. employees in New York has filed a complaint accusing the company of illegally firing one...
Zurich to Shift $2B of UK Legacy Employers’ Liability Policies to Catalina December 17, 2018 Zurich Insurance plc has entered into an agreement with Catalina, a specialist acquirer of legacy insurance portfolios, to transfer its...
Conservative Ex-Google Engineer’s Bias Complaint Goes to Arbitration October 22, 2018 By Robert Burnson The engineer who sued Google after he was fired for blasting the company with allegations of anti-conservative bias won’t get...
Gender, Seniority Key Factors in Workplace Harassment: Hiscox Survey September 5, 2018 More than one-third (35 percent) of employees in the U.S. feel they’ve experienced workplace harassment, and half of them believe...