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...
Barnes & Noble Calls Fired CEO’s Defamation Claims ‘Lies and Mischaracterizations’ August 29, 2018 By Jonathan Stempel Barnes & Noble Inc. was sued on Tuesday by a former chief executive officer who said the largest U.S. bookstore...