Walmart Sales Soared, Essential Workers Got Scant Protection COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Sandra Kunz had been worried for her safety while working as a cashier at a... Read More
Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5 Million in Ransom Colonial Pipeline Co. paid nearly $5 million to Eastern European hackers on Friday, contradicting reports earlier this week that the... Read More
Fitch Says Sharp Drop in Claims Frequency Helped Commercial Auto Break Even, Almost A sharp decline in claim frequency helped the commercial auto line achieve its best underwriting performance in a decade last... Read More
Scramble on for New Fuel Routes After Colonial Pipeline Hack After a six-day outage, the top U.S. fuel pipeline on Thursday moved some of the first millions of gallons of... Read More
Cloudy D&O Policy Language May Force Insurer to Pay for Defense of Investor Suit Because of “ambiguous” policy language in a complicated insurance contract, a directors and officers insurer may be liable for more... Read More
DarkSide Hackers Mint Money With Ransomware Franchise When a new ransomware group popped up on the scene last year, the hackers did what’s in vogue for digital... Read More
With $2,300 Phone Calls, Purdue Runs Up Huge Bankruptcy Tab One phone call with the Department of Justice: $2,300. Two days at the Ritz-Carlton: $830. Oh, and a lengthy cab... Read More
Waymo, Cruise Seek Permits to Charge for Self-Driving Car Rides in San Francisco Alphabet Inc’s Waymo and rival Cruise have applied for permits needed to start charging for rides and delivery using autonomous... Read More
NCCI: Workers’ Comp Line Thrives Despite COVID-19 The workers’ compensation line powered through the COVID-19 pandemic last year, generating an average profit of 24% while carriers built... Read More
Insurer of Ship That Blocked Suez Canal Says Reduced Claim Still High CAIRO — UK Club, an insurer of the container ship that blocked the Suez Canal in March, said on Monday... Read More