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Posted: Nov 23, 2020

How Insurers Are Underwriting Higher Education During the Worst Financial Crisis It’s Ever Faced

The hardening insurance market in the U.S. is expected to continue into 2021, generating hardships for insurers and policyholders alike. Advertisement

Posted: Nov 23, 2020

Medicare Set-Asides: A Wish List

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Posted: Nov 20, 2020

Can Business Continuity Planning Stave Off Higher Ed’s COVID-19 Revenue Nightmare?

In the midst of a crisis in higher education in the United States, we might ask a question using the old reliable multiple-choice format. Advertisement

Posted: Nov 20, 2020

The Use of Blockchain in Insurance Is $1 Billion Worth of Good News

Accenture reports that the global market for blockchain in insurance is expected to grow to $1.39 billion by 2023...

Posted: Nov 19, 2020

Workers’ Comp’s Advocacy Approach May Be Its Talent Attraction Holy Grail

As the industry tries to fend off a looming talent crisis, workers’ comp payers might be asking themselves how can they attract more frontline claims professionals to the industry. One session during the National Workers’ Compensation and D...

Posted: Nov 19, 2020

The Advocacy Approach in Workers’ Comp May be its Talent Attraction Holy Grail

As the industry tries to fend off a looming talent crisis, workers’ comp payers might be asking themselves how can they attract more frontline claims professionals to the industry. Advertisement

Posted: Nov 19, 2020

Emerging Risks: Silent Cyber

As cyber attacks continue to present a daunting risk for businesses, so too will cyber insurance products become more common. But what’s known as silent cyber, where cyber risk and cover are not specifically mentioned in the policy, continu...

Posted: Nov 19, 2020

Legal Roundup: Astros Cheating Scandal, Judge Refuses to Apply COVID Exclusion and More

Astros General Manager Fired in Cheating Scandal Sues Team For $22 Million The Case: In October 2017, Jeff Luhnow was riding high. The Houston Astros club he built as general manager had just won the Worl...

Posted: Nov 19, 2020

Risk & Insurance News and Notes: Lloyds Bank Partners with Previsico, New Genetic Disease Coverage A...

Lloyds’ Bank Partners with Previsico to Boost Flood Risk Resilience Insurtech Previsico recently announced a partnership with Lloyds’ Bank Partners to collectively combat the risks of extreme weather conditions Lloyds’ cu...

Posted: Nov 18, 2020

The Other 2020 Election Story: Which States Legalized Marijuana and How It Could Affect Workers’ Com...

As people patiently waited for the presidential election results the week of November 3, another wave quietly swept across the country: the green wave.  In the 2020 election,

Posted: Nov 17, 2020

From English Degree to Power Broker: Willis Towers Watson’s Clare McCarrick Shares Her Insurance Sto...

When Clare McCarrick, senior associate at Willis Towers Watson, graduated with a degree in English literature from Georgetown University, she had envisioned pursuing a career in journalism. But after experiencing her first internship in insurance,...

Posted: Nov 16, 2020

Legal Roundup: Drug Companies Near Opioid Case Settlement, TikTok Ban Suspended and More

Influencers Successfully Stop TikTok Ban The case: Three TikTok influencers sued to reverse a Trump administration order that would have effectively banned the popular app in the United States. ...

Posted: Nov 16, 2020

Opinion | In Spite of COVID, Schools Reopened. Why We Must Do More to Protect Teachers

My sister is an elementary school teacher in Ontario, Canada. Returning to work this past September was not like any other September. She would know. She has been a teacher for 30 years. Advertisement

Posted: Nov 13, 2020

Why Insurers Must Remain Flexible When It Comes to Supply Chain Risk Management

Managing global supply chain risk requires a certain level of flexibility, because you never truly know what might happen next. Take, for example, a global pandemic. “This is a true Black Swan event,” said Kevin Strong, Head of Multi...

Posted: Nov 12, 2020

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Posted: Nov 12, 2020

How Class Action Litigation Can Be the Death of Your Big M&A Deal

M&A transactions have been booming over the past decade resulting in a lot of buyers chasing a limited pool of opportunities.  This increase in competition for deals has resulted in shorter diligence periods and

Posted: Nov 12, 2020

Field Nurse Case Management in the Age of Telehealth

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Posted: Nov 11, 2020

Directors and Officers Facing Liability for Lack of Diversity

2020 will be remembered for many things, including as the year when corporations

Posted: Nov 11, 2020

4 Critical COVID-19 Risks to the Aviation Sector

COVID-19 devastated revenues and the balance sheets of commercial airlines with quarterly losses for some running from the hundreds of millions into the billions.  But from a claims-made perspective, of the sectors affected by the COVID-19 pandemi...

Posted: Nov 11, 2020

The Institutes and the III Join Forces: Get Ready for an Insurance Resource Powerhouse

The joining together of two long-standing insurance education organizations this month represents a leap forward in the way the associations will be able to fulfill their missions, according to the leaders of both groups. Advertisem...

Posted: Nov 11, 2020

Opinion | Empathic Curiosity Needs to Be at the Center of Workers’ Comp Claims. Here’s How to Do Tha...

For much of the past decade, the workers’ compensation industry has shown great enthusiasm for advocacy-based claims models. Advertisement

Posted: Nov 11, 2020