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Assessing Options for Managing the Risks and Insuring Communicable Diseases

Within weeks, it had all changed. As a pandemic spread and took root in an unprepared world, many organizations were finding out that their insurance policies would not cover the one event that had brought global business to a standstill …

South Carolina Liquidating Commercial Auto Insurer First Keystone

The South Carolina Department of Insurance last week declared an insurer that specialized in providing commercial auto insurance to be insolvent and the insurer is now being liquidated. The First Keystone Risk Retention Group Inc. wrote taxis and other commercial …

Nevada Commissioner Blocks Fee on Risk Retention Groups

Nevada Insurance Commissioner Brett Barratt has rejected a proposal to impose fees on risk retention groups (RRGs) that the National Risk Retention Association said would violate the federal Liability Risk Retention Act of 1986 (LRRA). The LRRA, a federal law, …

Risk Retention Group Seeks Court Order in Nevada Auto Liability Case

The National Risk Retention Association has filed an amicus (friend of the court) brief protesting the Nevada Department of Insurance’s efforts stop a risk retention group from issuing automobile liability first dollar coverage. In July 2010, the DOI issued a …