Special Coverage: COVID-19
Posted: Mar 25, 2020
Idea is to ensure the company's business and its clients' claims are processed amid the pandemic
Posted: Mar 25, 2020
Lawsuits place focus on 'all risk' policies
Posted: Mar 25, 2020
With the emergence of COVID-19, the risks of business travel have taken center stage as employees traveling to other countries or even just national conferences brought the risk of disease back into their offices. Advertisement Outside of a global pandemic, traveling workers still carry many mo...
Posted: Mar 25, 2020
I am writing this column in the midst of our global COVID-19 nightmare. By now, your pre-designed continuity plans have gone live and are operational to varying degrees of success. But honestly, many of us never imagined requiring a continuity plan for something this pernicious. And many of us have...
Posted: Mar 25, 2020
The Colombian Mining Association has said that local mining firms plan to reduce operations to slow the spread of coronavirus.
Posted: Mar 25, 2020
UK banks are stepping up fraud prevention measures to protect customers from scammers eager to exploit the coronavirus pandemic with a whole range of new tricks, including fake sales of medical supplies and bogus government relief schemes. With British households …
Posted: Mar 25, 2020
In a blink of an eye, the world – society and all of humanity – are being stressed at every level imaginable due to the rapid spread of COVID-19. No one could ever have imagined or planned what this could really be like … including our industry. But since the beginnings of insurance, we have had a...
Posted: Mar 25, 2020
The amount of vim, vigor and rigor brought to decision-making will determine the extent to which the insurance industry will harness the insights provided from enhanced analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and cognitive computing. The topic of operational decision management (ODM) i...
Posted: Mar 25, 2020
The company has donated masks, gloves and hazmat suits for use in combatting COVID-19
Posted: Mar 25, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on across the globe, the airline industry continues to be the most devastated sector thus far.
Posted: Mar 25, 2020
As state insurance regulators monitor and respond to the coronavirus impact on insurance, property/casualty insurers are calling on them to coordinate their requests for data and ease up on some requirements. David A. Sampson, president and CEO of the American …
Posted: Mar 25, 2020
As state insurance regulators monitor and respond to the coronavirus impact on insurance, property/casualty insurers are calling on them to coordinate their requests for data and ease up on some requirements. David A. Sampson, president and CEO of the American …
Posted: Mar 24, 2020
A Native American tribe on Tuesday sued a group of insurance companies, asking a court to declare that losses it is incurring from shutting down its casinos during the coronavirus pandemic are covered by insurance. Among the defendants named in …
Posted: Mar 24, 2020
Insurers Know They’re Essential, and Coronavirus Business Shutdowns Prove It Insurance industry professionals might take some pride in knowing that they are considered essential. In states where only essential businesses are allowed to keep operations going during the ...
Posted: Mar 24, 2020
Over the past two weeks, the VU has received countless questions concerning COVID-19 (the coronavirus) and the business income policy. As authorities require businesses to limit activities or shut down completely, the fear and reality of the loss of income …
Posted: Mar 24, 2020
Over the last several days the VU has fielded several auto insurance related questions. These questions cannot be classed simply as personal auto or business auto questions because the most common question involves both polices. As of this writing, 21 …
Posted: Mar 24, 2020
The COVID-19 outbreak is expected to hit the workers’ compensation insurance market hard. After a long stretch of declining costs that saw rates fall nationwide from 2015 to 2019, claims for workers infected by the virus while on the job …
Posted: Mar 24, 2020
As insurance agents manage workplace issues and maintain guidance for clients during the evolving coronavirus pandemic, here are three best practices for developing and activating a crisis management plan.
Posted: Mar 24, 2020
The new feature available with Willis Towers Watson’s Global Peril Diagnostic tool lets risk managers can assess their COVID-19 property exposure in real time.
Posted: Mar 24, 2020
Migration to cloud allows insurance and financial companies to focus on their core business and innovation during the good times, and weather the storms during major challenges, rather than investing in costly infrastructure and then spending hard-earned money on IT and application support.
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