Insurance Journal
A cyberattack that has disrupted Change Healthcare’s computer networks for nearly a week is creating a growing administrative problem for pharmacies and health-care providers around the nation. Change Healthcare, a division of UnitedHealth Grou...
Posted: Feb 28, 2024
OpenAI has asked a federal judge to dismiss parts of the New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against it, arguing that the newspaper “hacked” its chatbot ChatGPT and other artificial-intelligence systems to generate misleading evidence...
Posted: Feb 28, 2024
Legal & Contingency Ltd. (L&C), the London-based MGA that specializes in underwriting legal indemnities and title risks, announced the launch of an insurance policy which will cover the installation of electric vehicle charging points in Engl...
Posted: Feb 28, 2024
Two state insurance departments have named new people to high-level positions. North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey this week announced that Amy Funderburk, a longtime attorney for a number of state government agencies and a credit union...
Posted: Feb 28, 2024
A Florida Senate committee on Tuesday approved an amended bill that could potentially reduce workers’ compensation costs for first responders in the state, people who are at increasing risk of exposure to accidental fentanyl overdoses. Senate B...
Posted: Feb 28, 2024
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is suing a Boston property management firm for allegedly violating federal law by failing to provide a reasonable accommodation to a new hire with a disability and subsequently withdrawing her job of...
Posted: Feb 28, 2024
Snow was expected to pick up across portions of Oregon, Northern California and northwestern Nevada by Wednesday night, according to AccuWeather meteorologists, who are forecasting heavy snow to expand through the northern and central Sierra on Thurs...
Posted: Feb 28, 2024
An earthquake of 4.9 magnitude struck north of Boise, Idaho, reportedly causing no major damage or injuries, authorities confirmed. The quake happened at 10:25 a.m. on Monday and was centered about 6.2 miles north of Smiths Ferry, according to the &#...
Posted: Feb 28, 2024
A review of 14 horse deaths at Saratoga Race Course last summer found no definitive cause of why they happened, saying rainfall “could not be overlooked” as a factor. The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, in a report released Mo...
Posted: Feb 28, 2024
A review of 14 horse deaths at Saratoga Race Course last summer found no definitive cause of why they happened, saying rainfall “could not be overlooked” as a factor. The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, in a report released Mo...
Posted: Feb 28, 2024
A New Mexico judge has set a trial date for Alec Baldwin on an involuntary manslaughter charge stemming from the 2021 deadly shooting on the set of the Western movie “Rust.” The scheduling order calls for jury selection to begin …
Posted: Feb 28, 2024
Chris Hudnall has joined Alliant Insurance Services as vice president within its Alliant Americas division. Hudnall is based in Denver. Before joining Alliant, Hudnall was vice president at Moreton & Company and worked as an associate producer at...
Posted: Feb 28, 2024
This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. The insurance industry has been slow to adopt digital-first frameworks for doing business, and the part of the business that deals with compliance and regulation change management even more so. &#...
Posted: Feb 28, 2024
CRC Group, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, hired Vince Colosimo as executive vice president in the company’s New York City downtown office. Colosimo will assume the role of office president in mid-2025, with current Office President Fred...
Posted: Feb 27, 2024
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at the brokers Price Forbes and Marsh. A summary of these new hires follows here. Ardonagh’s Price Forbes Taps Horler From Lockton as Deputy CEO Sarah Horler has been appointed as...
Posted: Feb 27, 2024
Family Dollar agreed this week to pay $41.7 million for holding food, drugs, medical devices, and cosmetics under insanitary conditions at company’s West Memphis, Arkansas, distribution center. A criminal information unveiled Feb. 26 in federal...
Posted: Feb 27, 2024
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — U.S. authorities have accused another sanitation company of illegally hiring at least two dozen children to clean dangerous meat processing facilities, the latest example of illegal child labor that officials say is increasing...
Posted: Feb 27, 2024
The owner of a suburban Chicago insurance agency has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for swindling more than $1 million from clients by collecting annuity premiums for policies that he never purchased, the U.S. Attorney’s Office...
Posted: Feb 27, 2024
Six people have been indicted in connection with the alleged filing of fraudulent insurance claims through their auto body repair business in Everett, Massachusetts. Four of the defendants were arraigned this week in Middlesex Superior Court, while t...
Posted: Feb 27, 2024
Signers National, the New York-based parent of several insurance companies, said it has acquired Ballantyne Insurance Group in Charlotte, North Carolina. Ballantyne specializes in coverage for human service organizations. It is own by William Bradley...
Posted: Feb 27, 2024
Southern California Edison agreed to pay the United States $80 million to cover costs and damages incurred by the U.S. Forest Service from the 2017 Thomas wildfire in California’s Los Padres National Forecast, the Department of Justice said on...
Posted: Feb 27, 2024
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Lawmakers began scrambling for ways to protect Alabama in vitro fertilization services after multiple providers paused treatment in the wake of a state Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos could be considered children unde...
Posted: Feb 27, 2024
The European Parliament on Tuesday approved tougher penalties for environmental crimes such as illegal timber trade, with offenses punishable by up to 10 years in prison and company directors prosecuted for corporate wrongdoing. “It is about ti...
Posted: Feb 27, 2024
(Bloomberg) — When Chris Malachowsky, a billionaire founder of chip giant Nvidia Corp., bankrolled one of the world’s biggest supercomputers at the University of Florida, Ron DeSantis predicted the machine would be a magnet for artificial...
Posted: Feb 27, 2024
An exception to the workers’ compensation “coming-and-going” rule applies where the employer provides the transportation even if the employer says there was no explicit agreement that he would supply rides. The exception can apply w...
Posted: Feb 27, 2024