Most Firms Neglected Pandemics in Annual Risk Assessments: Study April 28, 2020 The risk of a pandemic was known prior to the current health crisis, yet in disclosing their risk factors to...
Unico in California Offering Covid-19 Suspended Operations Insurance April 17, 2020 Calabasas, Calif.-based Unico American Corp. announced that in response to the forced closure of so many small businesses due to...
Mass. Attorney General Calls on Division of Insurance to Lower Auto Premiums April 17, 2020 By Elizabeth Blosfield Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s office has called on the Massachusetts Division of Insurance (DOI) to direct all auto insurance...
4 Ways COVID-19 Will Change Cannabis and Insurance April 9, 2020 By Don Jergler One may not need to be able to read the cannabis leaves to divine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic...
How East Insurance Regulators Are Responding to the Coronavirus Pandemic March 25, 2020 By Elizabeth Blosfield As insurers continue to monitor the spread and impact of COVID-19, insurance regulators across the East region of the U.S....
FEMA Tackles COVID-19 While Also Facing Past Disasters, Spring Flood Season March 23, 2020 By Leslie Kaufman and Brian K. Sullivan It wasn’t until Wednesday, five days after President Donald Trump declared a national emergency, that the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
Lloyd’s Closes London Underwriting Room in Response to Coronavirus Crisis March 19, 2020 By L.S. Howard After conducting a successful stress-test last week of its electronic trading system, Lloyd’s has made the decision to close its...
AIR Worldwide Estimates COVID-19 Global Deaths Could Rise 10K-30K by End of March March 18, 2020 AIR Worldwide, the Boston-based catastrophe risk modeling firm, projected the number of severe cases of COVID-19 could range between 200,000...
Catastrophe Bond Prices Signal Coronavirus Nearing Pandemic Status February 28, 2020 By Tasos Vossos The World Health Organization says the coronavirus isn’t yet a global pandemic. Bonds that insure against just such a catastrophe...
Cruise Ship Tests Coronavirus Containment as 300 Passengers Return to U.S. February 17, 2020 By Stephanie Nebehay and Stephen Lam TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif./GENEVA, Feb 17 —More than 300 American cruise liner passengers, including 14 who tested positive for...