Viewpoint: Keeping the Human Element in AI Claims Management Without a doubt, artificial intelligence (AI) is a valuable driver of innovation in today’s insurance industry. Unfortunately, the predominant attitude... Read More
Texas / South Central News Okla. Supreme Ct. Ruling Shows Policyholders Shouldn’t Depend on Agent’s Representations New Dominion LLC taps into oil and natural gas reserves that many production companies avoid. The Tulsa, Oklahoma company operates... Read More
Southeast News U.S. Court Vacates Qualified Immunity in Excessive Force Case of 5 Police Officers A federal appeals court has vacated part of a finding that cleared five West Virginia police officers on qualified immunity... Read More
Health Workers Dealing with Shock of Virus Fight, Uneasiness in Current Quiet Outside a back door to a hospital where the coronavirus hit like a hurricane, a half-dozen staffers gathered recently to... Read More
Rising Claims, Feared Covid-19 Surge, Push Firms to Seek D&O Insurance Alternatives When Elon Musk said in April he was dropping the insurance policy that protects Tesla Inc.’s board from shareholder lawsuits,... Read More
SUVs More Deadly to Pedestrians Than Passenger Cars, Says Insurance Safety Study SUVs are more likely than passenger cars to injure or kill pedestrians, according to a new U.S. insurance industry study... Read More
International News Edge Computing, Supply Chains, Deepfakes Among 2020’s Top Emerging Risks: Swiss Re Pandemic threats were once on the list of potential emerging risks facing the insurance industry and society. Now that this... Read More
Chief Risk Officers Believe U.S. Coronavirus Losses Could Top S&P’s $15-$30B Estimate Analysts for Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings shared a view that U.S. underwriting losses from COVID-19 would fall in the... Read More
More States Push COVID-19 Claims to Work Comp; Potential Cost Anyone’s Guess Regulators and lawmakers in more states are demanding that workers who claim they were sickened by COVID-19 get a fair... Read More
NCCI: COVID-19 Will Cost Billions Even With Modest Infection Rates If only 10 percent of health care workers contract COVID-19 and all of their claims are deemed compensable, workers’ compensation... Read More