Viewpoint: Insurers Face Added Role in Curbing Workplace Violence With California Law New legislation aimed at reducing workplace violence in California vastly increases employers’ responsibilities and hands workers’ compensation insurers an unprecedented... Read More
Florida’s Home Insurance Industry May Be Worse Than Anyone Realizes Seven property insurers in Florida went bankrupt in 2021 and 2022. The bankruptcies left thousands of homeowners scrambling to get... Read More
Jury Awards $80M to 3 Former Zurich NA Employees for Wrongful Termination Zurich North America was ordered by a California jury to pay three former employees a total of about $80.2 million... Read More
UnitedHealth Data Leak May Affect ‘Substantial’ Swath of U.S. UnitedHealth Group Inc. found files containing private information on a vast number of Americans whose data may have been compromised... Read More
FTC Issues Worker Non-Compete Ban as Chamber Lawsuit Looms The US Federal Trade Commission voted Tuesday to adopt a near-total ban on non-compete provisions that prohibit workers from switching... Read More
South Carolina Allows Out-of-State Adjusters After Massive Hail Storm In the wake of last week’s widespread hail storm that damaged homes and automobiles, the South Carolina director of insurance... Read More
Delaware High Court Hands Agency a New Shot at Malpractice Claim Against Law Firm A Delaware insurance agency has won another chance at proving a law firm was negligent in defending it in a... Read More
Gallagher: Global Insured Natural Disaster Claims Again Dominated by Severe U.S. Storms Global insured losses from natural catastrophes in the first quarter were estimated at $20 billion, with U.S. claims accounting for... Read More
AccuWeather: Record Warm Winter Costs Businesses Billions in Losses Unseasonably warm winter weather cost businesses and event planners in the northern Plains and upper Midwest billions of dollars in... Read More
Microsoft, Beset by Hacks, Grapples With Problem Years in the Making The world’s largest seller of cybersecurity products has a problem with its own cybersecurity. In recent years, Microsoft Corp. has... Read More