COVID Lawsuits by State and Key Trends in Workplace Litigation for 2021: Seyfarth January 7, 2021 The coronavirus pandemic contributed to a spike in workplace lawsuits in 2020 and the number is only expected to grow...
Final Insured Losses for Australian Bushfires of 2019/2020 Estimated at A$1.866B January 6, 2021 Insured losses for the Australian bushfires of 2019/2020 rose to A$1.866 billion (US$1.441 billion), according to estimates issued by PERILS,...
January Renewals Saw Some of Sharpest Price Hikes in Recent Years: Howden January 6, 2021 Lower investment yields, adverse catastrophe loss development, higher loss cost trends, concerns over climate change, and, of course, the pandemic...
Riskiest Counties for Natural Disasters Are Not Always Where People Think January 5, 2021 By Seth Borenstein Spending her life in Los Angeles, Morgan Andersen knows natural disasters all too well. In college, an earthquake shook her...
World’s Largest Insurers 2020: AM Best Ranks UnitedHealth, Allianz on Top January 5, 2021 UnitedHealth Group Inc. takes the top spot in AM Best’s ranking of the world’s 25 largest insurance companies for a...
Global Aviation Deaths Rose in 2020, Although Number of Crashes Fell January 4, 2021 By David Shepardson The number of people killed in large commercial airplane crashes rose in 2020 to 299 worldwide, even as the number...
Cyber Attacks Cost Russian Companies and Citizens $49B in 2020: Sberbank December 29, 2020 By Tatiana Voronova MOSCOW – Cyber attacks have cost Russian companies and citizens up to 3.6 trillion roubles ($49 billion) this year, the...
Google Adds Extra Scrutiny of Its Scientists’ Research on ‘Sensitive Topics’ December 23, 2020 By Paresh Dave and Jeffrey Dastin Alphabet Inc.’s Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists’ papers by launching a “sensitive topics” review, and...
Masks Help Curb COVID-19’s Spread But May Not be Enough at Close Distances December 23, 2020 Simply wearing a face mask may not be enough to prevent the spread of COVID-19 without social distancing. In a...
COVID-19 Fuels Abandonment of Ships – and Their Cargoes and Crews December 18, 2020 By K. Oanh Ha and Bruce Stanley From the deck of their tanker, Captain Samig Nabiyev and his crew could see the smoke and fire rising over...