National News for June 2022
- Survey: Broad Support for Renewables, Gap in Climate Change Awareness
- Gunmakers Face New Legal Threat From Families of Mass Shooting Victims
- More Insurers to Offer Better D&O Coverage to Businesses With Robust ESG Frameworks: Marsh
- Over 20 New E&S Entrants Reshaping Marketplace: RPS
- Getting the Measure of Inflation for the (Re)insurance Industry
- Whole Foods Workers Lose Appeal Over ‘Black Lives Matter’ Masks
- P/C Industry to Finish 2022 in the Red With Combined Ratio Over 100: S&P
- US Farmers Battle Floods, Heat in Bid to Replenish Food Supplies
- Mass Shooting Insurance Rates Jump as Incidents Rise
- ‘It’s Not Been Fun’: Cyber Insurance Brokers Seek Consistency as Hard Market Settles
- U.S. Power Companies Face Supply-Chain Crisis This Summer
- Don’t Count Out Insurtech Disrupters, Carrier CEOs Say
- U.S. Vehicle Quality Hits 36-Year Low as Supply, Labor Woes Continue: J.D. Power
- How Addressing Socioeconomic Inequality Is Key to Building Flood Resilience
- Today Is National Insurance Awareness Day
- Juul and Its Courtroom Foes Stare Down FDA Ban as Youth Marketing Trial Nears
- Cyber Pirates Prowling Ship Controls Threaten Another Big Shock
- Judge Orders New Trial in Tesla Worker’s Race Bias Lawsuit
- U.S. Supreme Court Sides With Doctors Challenging Opioid Convictions
- Hertz Makes Settlement Offers to End False Arrest Lawsuits
- People Moves: CoreLogic Names Dodd CEO; CAC Specialty Adds 4 to Senior Living Team; McCann Joins Lockton Re; Canopius Appoints Lee General Counsel
- Supreme Court Backs Football Coach Fired After Praying on the Field
- U.S. Supreme Court Again Nixes Bayer Challenge to Weedkiller Suits
- NYC, Miami, Tampa, New Orleans Tops Among Storm-Surge Exposed Cities
- SMBs Are Struggling to Get Cyber Insurance: Here’s How to Stay Protected
- Wall Street Banks Quietly Test Cyber Defenses at Treasury’s Direction
- Legal Clashes Await U.S. Companies Covering Workers’ Abortion Costs
- Cyber Insurtechs and Insurers ‘In This Together,’ Not in Competition
- Walgreens Reaches $105 Million Settlement With Shareholders
- Marijuana Banking Overhaul Removed from China Competition Bill
- People Moves: MMC Names Jones, Hageman to Senior Posts; Lockton Welcomes Marsh’s Millett for Innovation; Applied Financial Builds Cyber Risk Team
- Hackers Steal $100 Million by Exploiting Crypto’s Weak Link
- How to Lower Home Insurance Premiums and Wildfire Risks
- How a Bankruptcy ‘Innovation’ Halted Thousands of Lawsuits from Sick Plaintiffs
- Supreme Court Voids New York Gun Permit Law, Establishes Right to Carry Outside Home
- Markets/Coverages: Skyward, InShare Offer Gig Accident Cover; London Underwriters Adds Slice; Hippo Grows Mortgage Channel
- New Research Reveals U.S. Gas Pipeline Leaks Have Not Improved
- People Moves: Safety National Shuffles Management, Names Hercules New CEO
- What Factors Could Drive Northern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone Risk This Season?
- Russian Hackers Also Focused on US and NATO Since Invasion
- Tesla Worker Rejects $15M Payout in Race Bias Lawsuit
- Juul Soon to Be Ordered Off the Market by FDA, WSJ Reports
- NFL Says Black Coaches’ Discrimination Case Should Be Resolved in Arbitration
- Corporate America Looks for Leeway on U.S. Climate Disclosures
- U.S. Solar Developers to Spend $6 Billion to Boost Domestic Supply Chain
- Agent-Focused Home Insurer Openly Closes $75 Million Funding Round
- Buffett’s Dairy Queen Loses Lawsuit Over ‘Blizzard’ Name
- New Layer of Federal Oversight for Climate Disclosures Not Needed: Triple-I
- Challenge to SEC ‘Gag’ Rule Turned Away by Supreme Court
- Captives, MGAs, MGUs Contribute to Growing Cyber Insurance Market
- Bayer Rejected by US Supreme Court in Bid to End Roundup Suits
- Tesla Sued by Former Employees Over ‘Mass Layoff’
- Preparing for InsurTech’s Second Act: Embedded Insurance
- Miles Davis Photographer’s Suit Against Tattoo Artist Von D to Test Copyright ‘Fair Use’
- Insurance Technology: eDriving Adds Safety App Without Telematics; Notion Offers Sensor Upgrade; HUB Debuts Personal Lines Platform VIU
- Lyft Reaches $25 Million Settlement of Claims it Hid Safety Problems Before IPO
- ‘Forever Chemicals’ Pose Risk Even at Very Low Levels: EPA
- JAB to Acquire Fairfax’s Pet Insurance Stake in Crum & Forster, PetHealth
- EPA Ordered to Reassess Glyphosate’s Impact on Health, Environment
- Musk Appeals Ruling That Upheld Securities Fraud Settlement
- U.S., Partners Dismantle Russian Hacking ‘Botnet,’ Justice Dept Says
- People Moves: Amica Names Shallcross as CEO to Succeed DiMuccio
- Porsche to Pay $80 Million to Resolve Fuel Economy Claims on U.S. Vehicles
- FTC Fires Warning Shot at Drug Middlemen Over Rebates, Fees
- Appeals Court First to Rule in Favor of Coverage for COVID Shutdown
- Nasdaq Urges SEC Not to Move Ahead with Climate Disclosure Plan
- Elon Musk Sued for $258 Billion Over Alleged Dogecoin Pyramid Scheme
- People Moves: Liberty Mutual Promotes Foley, Ughetta; Ex-Regulator Joins Lemonade
- Buffett Donates $4 Billion to Charity
- Gunmaker Sig Sauer Sued by Veteran Claiming Pistol Goes Off by Itself
- Tesla Leads in Driver-Assisted Technology Crashes: NHTSA
- Ford Recalls 3.3 Million Vehicles Over Rollaway Concerns
- Markets/Coverages: Beazley Starts D&O for Crypto Companies; Notion PRO New 24/7 Professional Home Monitoring
- From Pandemic to Cyber War, Clear Policy Wording Is Key for Insurers
- The SEC War on Greenwashing Has Begun
- Rudolph Giuliani Sues Smartmatic to Recoup Legal Fees in Fox News Lawsuit
- Financial Firms to SEC Over Proposal to Regulate SPACs: ‘Don’t Kill the Industry’
- Umpire Hernandez Appeals Dismissal of Bias Complaint Against Major League Baseball
- Markets/Coverages: BTIS and RLI Cater to Home-Based Businesses; Cover Genius Targets Midsize Retailers with Warranty App
- Keeping Up With Demand for Cybersecurity Professionals
- Deutsche Bank Investors Can Sue in U.S. Over Epstein, Russian Oligarch Ties
- Oracle Corp. Women Stumble in Pay Bias Suit While Google Cuts a Deal
- Many Business Leaders Feel Unprepared for Growing Geopolitical Risks, Inflation
- Medical Professional Liability Insurance Market Improves but Still Unprofitable
- Sterling Jewelers Reaches $125 Million Settlement in Long-Running Sex Bias Case
- Binance U.S. Exchange Sued by Crypto Investor Over Stablecoin Collapse
- ESG Fund Bosses Hit by ‘Reckoning’ as Goldman, DWS in Crosshairs
- Markets/Coverages: Skyward Specialty’s Renewable Energy Cover; IMA, Parametrix Downtime Policy; Contractor Safety Discounts From Procure, Shepherd
- Charles Schwab Subsidiaries to Pay $187 Million to Settle SEC Charges
- Supreme Court Takes No Action on Bayer Bid to Nix Weedkiller Suits
- UniFi Group to Acquire Controlling Stake in National Flood Services
- Report Casts Doubt on Net-Zero Emissions Pledges by Big Global Companies
- Google Agrees to Pay $118 Million to Settle Pay Equity Suit
- Simone Biles, Other Women Seek $1 Billion-Plus From FBI Over Nassar
- Chubb Not Declaring Itself Net Zero, CEO Greenberg Says
- Supreme Court to Soon Decide Whether to Hear Bayer’s Weedkiller Case
- U.S. Agency Upgrades Tesla Autopilot Safety Probe, Step Before Possible Recall
- Concerned Scientists: Climate Ties U.S. Wildfires and Water Together in Many Ways
- Alleghany Stockholders Approve Sale to Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway
- Howden Group to Acquire TigerRisk Partners to Create ‘Much-Needed’ Fourth Reinsurance Broker
- Liberty Mutual Chairman and CEO Long to Retire; Sweeney Named Successor
- Workers Compensation Catastrophes: Past, Present, and Future
- Hurricane Chief to Take Over as Weather Service Director
- Insurance Bundler Branch Raises $147M, Touts Unicorn Status
- FTC Says $1 Billion Lost in Cryptocurrency Scams Since 2021
- Cybersecurity Groups Push US to Boost Collaboration on Hacks
- House Committee to Hold Hearing on Soaring U.S. Traffic Deaths
- U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear COVID Business Interruption Case
- Pressure Growing to Remove PFAS from Fast Food Wrappers
- A Look at OSHA’s Top 10 Safety Violations
- U.S. Senators Unveil Bill to Regulate Cryptocurrency
- People Moves: Hippo Names McCathron as CEO; M&A Insurance Platform io.insure Adds Staff for U.S.
- J.M. Smucker to Take $125 Million Hit From Jif Peanut Butter Recall
- Hospitals Confront Their Climate Achilles Heel: Supply Chains
- CEO-Worker Pay Gap Jumps in 2021 at Low-Wage Companies
- U.S. Supreme Court Rules Southwest Airlines Cannot Force Wage Suit Into Arbitration
- Under Strain From Sex Abuse Claims, Boy Scouts Selling Off Camp Properties
- ‘Top Gun’ Heirs Sue Paramount Over ‘Top Gun: Maverick’
- People Moves: Mourad Named President of Verisk Claims; Marsh’s Evans Joins Risk Strategies Entertainment; Roamly Hires Root, Good Sam Execs
- Mariah Carey Sued for Copyright Infringement Over Iconic Christmas Song
- Musk Says He May Drop Twitter Deal if Fake-Account Data Not Provided
- Cyber Continues as Outlier in Otherwise Stabilizing Commercial P/C Market: USI
- Self-Fulfilling Rankings Boost Rating Agency Power: Researcher
- Tesla Faces Increase in Complaints Over ‘Phantom Braking’
- Uvalde Parents and Teacher Seek Documents From Gun Maker After School Shooting
- Colorado St. Hurricane Team Now Forecasts ‘Well Above-Average’ Hurricane Season
- LexisNexis Acquires Home Inspection Tech Firm Flyreel
- Amazon Accused of Obstructing House Probe of Deadly Tornado
- Federal Investigators to Review FDA Response to Baby Formula Recall
- Jury Sides With Johnny Depp in Libel Case, Awards Him $10M
- FEMA Pushing for Stronger Building Codes Nationwide
- ‘Pay-As-You-Go’ Workers’ Compensation MGA Hourly Raises $27 Million
- Insurance Technology: Flood Data From Arturo and ICEYE; Weather Intelligence From Verisk; Home Valuations from CAPE Analytics
- FEMA Fund of Recovery Firms Debuts as Disasters Grow More Damaging, Costly
- U.S. Nuclear Power Regulator Backs NuScale Design After Quake Safety Review
- Gunmaker Shareholders Back Human Rights Impact Reporting Resolution
- Weather’s Unwanted Guest: Nasty La Nina Keeps Showing Up
- Dry Winter, Wet Spring Shrink U.S. Wheat Crop, Adding to Global Woes From War
- North Atlantic Hurricane Season Begins With Ripe Conditions for Above-Average Activity
- ‘The Phones Started Ringing Right Away’: Cat Modeling Pioneer Karen Clark Recalls Hurricane Andrew
- U.S. Product Recalls Reach 10-Year High in Q1
- Small Nuclear Power Projects May Have Big Waste Problems
- Sarah Palin Loses Bid to Disqualify Judge from NY Times Defamation Trial
- Insurance Broker Acrisure Touches $23 Billion in Valuation After Latest Funding
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