Insurance Journal
To address the growing risks faced by middle market law firms, Berkley Select said it enhanced its lawyers professional liability (LPL) offerings, adding new coverages, more flexible policy forms and expanded capacity. Berkley Select’s lawyers...
Posted: Apr 06, 2023
The U.S. agency that enforces workplace discrimination laws has urged a federal appeals court to revive a lawsuit alleging that Uber Technologies Inc’s system allowing passengers to rate drivers is racially discriminatory. The U.S. Equal Employ...
Posted: Apr 06, 2023
The attorneys who beat the NCAA in the Supreme Court have filed a new class- action antitrust lawsuit against the association and the five wealthiest college sports conferences that seeks millions of dollars in damages for thousands of athletes. The...
Posted: Apr 06, 2023
Owners of 143,000 recalled Volkswagen Atlas vehicles should not let people sit in front passenger seats until the occupant-detection systems in these vehicles have been fixed, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Tu...
Posted: Apr 06, 2023
An insurance company is entitled to generous tax credits even if the carrier did not invest directly in renewable energy projects, a North Carolina court has decided, striking down a $24 million tax assessment by the state’s Department of Reven...
Posted: Apr 06, 2023
Embroker named Chris Spagnuolo as chief product officer. Spagnuolo has nearly 20 years of product management experience, most recently as CPO at Wander. Spagnuolo also founded two startups and spent seven years as a product consultant to organization...
Posted: Apr 06, 2023
A federal jury has awarded nearly $3.2 million in damages to a Black former worker at a Tesla factory in California that has been at the epicenter of racial discrimination allegations hanging over the automaker run by billionaire Elon Musk. …
Posted: Apr 06, 2023
Magic mushrooms are a class of drugs in a promising industry referred to broadly as psychedelics, a market that some believe will reach more than $8 billion in the next few years. Like cannabis, they are considered controlled substances. So, …
Posted: Apr 06, 2023
A new law passed by state lawmakers opened the door for Angelica Saupe to finally a pursue a claim against the school district where she says a high school basketball coach sexually abused her in the early 2000s. But that …
Posted: Apr 06, 2023
AUSTIN, Texas. April 5, 2023 – Today ePayPolicy announced the release of Payables Connect, the newest innovation in their suite of insurance payment and reconciliation products. Leveraging ePay’s existing integrations and machine learning...
Posted: Apr 05, 2023
Henningsen Appointed CEO of Lockton Texas P&C Business Lockton Companies has appointed Jeff Henningsen as chief executive officer (CEO) for the Texas P&C business, with teams in Dallas, Houston and Ft. Worth, Texas; New Orleans, Louisiana; an...
Posted: Apr 05, 2023
Beat Capital Partners, a long-duration venture-capital investor that specializes in the insurance industry, announced the launch of a specialist energy underwriter, Horace Agency Ltd. Led by industry veteran Chris Charlton, Horace will focus exclusiv...
Posted: Apr 05, 2023
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday it remains to be seen whether artificial intelligence (AI) is dangerous, but underscored that technology companies had a responsibility to ensure their products were safe before making them public. Biden told...
Posted: Apr 05, 2023
Global companies that form alliances to help them to tackle climate change need clear “safe harbor” guidelines from governments to allay fears they could be tripped up by antitrust rules, legal experts said. Hundreds of companies have ban...
Posted: Apr 05, 2023
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – While residents across parts of the South and Midwest pummeled by deadly storms and wildfires sifted through the wreckage of their homes Monday, forecasters warned of more severe weather and fire danger in the days ahead &#...
Posted: Apr 05, 2023
Indiana Department of Insurance Commissioner Amy L. Beard issued a bulletin directing insurance companies to implement a 60-day cancellation moratorium for any policyholder directly affected by the recent weather events in Allen, Benton, Cass, Clinto...
Posted: Apr 05, 2023
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of La Vista, Nebraska-based Quality First Insurance, LLC. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Quality First Insurance is an insurance agency serving health care and senior living facili...
Posted: Apr 05, 2023
Cowbell, the Pleasanton, Calif.-based provider of cyber insurance for small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has launched its UK operations and appointed cyber insurance expert Simon Hughes as general manager for Cowbell UK. Hughes joins Cowbell...
Posted: Apr 05, 2023
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has made two appointments to the California Insurance Guarantee Association Board of Governors. Both join the CIGA board in a member insurer seat with terms ending on December 31. Heather Pierce is assis...
Posted: Apr 05, 2023
Construction can proceed related to a major oil project on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope after a federal judge on Monday rejected requests to halt work until challenges to the Biden administration’s recent approval are resolved. The...
Posted: Apr 05, 2023
Applied Underwriters Introduces Applied Home National Underwriters Applied Underwriters said it has created Applied Home National Underwriters (“Home National”) to consolidate the company’s presence in select homeowners markets and...
Posted: Apr 05, 2023
The Biden administration has demanded that TikTok’s Chinese owners divest their stakes in the popular video app or face a possible U.S. ban, the company told Reuters this week. The move follows the introduction of a new U.S. legislation that &#...
Posted: Apr 05, 2023
Images captured by a robotic probe inside one of the three melted reactors at Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant showed exposed steel bars in the main supporting structure and parts of its thick external concrete wall missing, trigge...
Posted: Apr 05, 2023
An Australian government-backed service for victims of identity theft blasted a plan to toughen privacy laws amid an explosion of online data theft, saying it would spur compromised companies to pay ransom and invite more hacking. IDCare, a non-profi...
Posted: Apr 05, 2023
The pandemic kickstarted the new wave of accepting and using innovative systems and methods in the insurance industry. It opened eyes to the ways that innovations and technology could do more than just efficiently get the work done. While the …
Posted: Apr 05, 2023