Business Insurance
Zurich North America on Monday announced a new business travel accident insurance solution that can help employers protect their traveling employees in the event of a health emergency.
Posted: Oct 13, 2020
Energy brokerage IMA Financial Group Inc. on Tuesday named former Marsh LLC executive Ricky Bryan executive vice president and director of its newly opened practice in Houston.
Posted: Oct 13, 2020
Minnesota lawmakers with both chambers on Monday introduced identical legislation that would make COVID-19 an occupational disease arising out of and in the course of employment.
Posted: Oct 13, 2020
Former Lockton Cos. LLC broker Bill Kost has teamed with Jatin Sharma and Brandon Statton from Bechtel to form Nardac Risk and Insurance Services, a specialist insurance broker serving the renewable energy, conventional power, infrastructure and tran...
Posted: Oct 13, 2020
Nardac Risk and Insurance Services, a specialist broker focused on renewable energy, conventional power, infrastructure and transport, launched on Tuesday.
Posted: Oct 13, 2020
Average premium renewal rates increased across most commercial lines of business in the third quarter, according to insurance exchange Ivans Insurance Services, a division of Tampa-based Applied Systems Inc.
Posted: Oct 13, 2020
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Posted: Oct 13, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide whether more than 100 technology disputes must be reheard because judges were unconstitutionally appointed to a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office tribunal in a case arising from a medical device paten...
Posted: Oct 13, 2020
Insured losses to onshore properties from Hurricane Delta will be close to $1.25 billion, Boston-based catastrophe modeler Karen Clark & Co. said in a statement Tuesday.
Posted: Oct 13, 2020
Aon PLC's unit Impact Forecasting LLC said storm Alex that struck France and Italy recently caused more than $3 billion worth of damage, making it the costliest catastrophe to hit Europe so far this year.
Posted: Oct 13, 2020
Hackers have asked for a ransom of $23 million from Germany-based Software AG after stealing employee information and company documents.
Posted: Oct 13, 2020
The Association of the German Insurance Industry has warned of a wave of bankruptcies as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Posted: Oct 13, 2020
More than €85 million ($100.4 million) worth of products was stolen from air, road, sea and rail freight supply chains in 46 countries in the Europe, Middle East & Africa region in the first half of the year.
Posted: Oct 13, 2020
Australia's Bureau of Meteorology has issued a "severe weather outlook" from October to April for bushfires, heatwaves, floods, cyclones and storms.
Posted: Oct 13, 2020
A report by U.A.E.-based actuarial consulting firm Badri Management Consultancy said that Omani insurers' gross written premiums fell 4% year-over-year to 218 million Omani rial ($565 million) in the first half of 2020.
Posted: Oct 13, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is causing organizations to reevaluate how they manage enterprise risks, experts say.
Posted: Oct 13, 2020
The widow of a corrections officer failed to show that a workplace injury 12 years earlier was causally related to his heart failure and subsequent death.
Posted: Oct 12, 2020
Munich Re Specialty Insurance, the primary insurance unit of Munich Reinsurance Co., has named Elizabeth Kramer chief underwriting officer.
Posted: Oct 12, 2020
An Odyssey Group Holdings Inc. unit is not obligated to defend a courier service being sued for failing to reimburse its delivery drivers for employment-related expenses under the terms of its coverage, says a federal appeals court, in affirming a lo...
Posted: Oct 12, 2020
NFP Corp. acquired British broker Ernest R. Shaw Ltd. on Sept. 1, in a deal that expands its footprint in the European market, NFP said in a statement Monday.
Posted: Oct 12, 2020
Aspen Re taps former Axis Re exec for casualty role
Posted: Oct 12, 2020
A meter reader in Cathlamet, Washington, claimed she could not go back to work because of a dog bite and subsequent post-traumatic stress disorder was found to have six dogs at home and a different diagnosis — malingering — according to her doctor.
Posted: Oct 12, 2020
Lawmakers in New Jersey on Thursday introduced legislation that would make a COVID-19 infection compensable for workers in warehouses or distribution centers during a public health emergency declared by an executive order of the governor.
Posted: Oct 12, 2020
An insurer has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by McDonald’s Corp. and two of its franchisees over the insurer’s refusal to defend them in COVID-19 litigation filed by the fast-food chain’s employees.
Posted: Oct 12, 2020
A group of English pub and night club owners plans to mount a legal challenge if the British government announces that hospitality and entertainment venues in northern England need to shut down to tackle the spread of COVID-19.
Posted: Oct 12, 2020