National News for January 2020
- Moore to Lead New Epic National Farm & Ranch Practice
- Insurance Pros: Predict Super Bowl Winner Now. Last Chance.
- W.R. Berkley Reports Underwriting Income Up, Catastrophe Losses Down
- Insurtech Investments and Valuations Soar Even As Some Startups Fail Fast
- Airlines Under Pressure to Halt Flights to China; Update on Cancellations
- EPA Again Declares Weedkiller Glyphosate Is Not Carcinogenic
- Jury Orders Apple, Broadcom to Pay $1.1 Billion for Infringing CalTech Wi-Fi Patent
- Justice Department Sets Meeting on Internet Liability
- P/C Insurance Pros: Predict Super Bowl Winner Now!
- Musk Holds Out As Other Tesla Directors Settle Investors’ SolarCity Claims for $60M
- Facebook to Pay $550M to Settle Biometric Privacy Violation Claims
- Where Purdue Pharma-Sackler Legal Maters Stand Now
- With Premiums Up Due to Accidents, Chemical, Refinery Plants Cut Back on Insurance
- ProSight Expands Into Captive Market; Founder Beneducci Resigns to Form Agency
- Climate-Friendly Battery Boom Presents Growing Fire Safety Challenge
- Opioid Victims Can Now File Injury Claims in Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Case
- Opioid Kickback Probe Cites OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma: Reuters
- Many Global Firms Face High Coronavirus Costs Due to Insurance Exclusions
- Key House Member Eyes Internet Liability Changes Before Election
- Everest Offers Small Law Firm Liability Program Via Digital Broker Embroker
- Electricity Can’t Hold Candle to Artificial Intelligence in Significance: Alphabet CEO
- Top Workplace Discrimination Claims
- Cause of Kobe Bryant Copter Crash Unclear; Flight Approval Under Review
- Hiring Momentum May Be Slowing Overall But Not in Insurance
- 9 States Criticize Google’s Street View $13M Privacy Settlement
- J&J CEO Testifies in Baby Powder Trial He Relied on Experts on Asbestos Risk
- Commercial Air Travel Passenger Death Rate Continues to Decline: MIT Study
- Zurich North America Appoints Harper as Head of Corporate Sustainability
- How China’s Coronavirus Will Test the U.S., Too: Opinion
- Blues Health Insurers Back Venture to Lower Generic Drug Prices
- Internet Firms’ Liability Shield on Justice Department Meeting Agenda
- McKesson Board Settles with Investors for $175M Over Distributor’s Role in Opioid Crisis
- U.S. Confirms 5 Cases of Coronavirus; 100 More Possible But Risk in U.S. Deemed Low
- California Clears Way for Those with Cannabis Convictions to Get Insurance Licenses
- Workers’ Compensation Is Doing Well. Is It Time to Worry?
- Making Big Oil Pay for Climate Change May Be Impossible
- 2020 Agency Salary Survey: Tell Us What You Think
- Entering and Exiting Digital: What’s Up with Multi-Brand Strategies of P/C Insurers?
- New Laws Spur Insurers to Reserve for Potential Child Sex-Abuse Claims
- Liberty Global Transaction Solutions Launches Contingent Legal Risk Insurance Product
- Roundup Plaintiffs, Bayer in Talks to Settle Claims For $10 Billion
- Nukes, Cyber, Climate Change: World Now at 100 Seconds to Midnight
- Lyft Hopes New Expert Council Improves Safety for Riders, Drivers
- How Broker Specialization Will Revolutionize Customer Experience: Viewpoint
- Travelers Reports Strong Q4, Full Year Results on Lower Catastrophe Losses
- State of Insurance Agency E&O Insurance Market: Managing Rates and Risks
- Environmental Group Warns ‘Forever Chemicals’ Widespread in U.S. Drinking Water
- Strap on the Goggles. Employee Training Is Entering Virtual Reality.
- Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Put Obamacare Appeals on Fast Track
- Trump Says U.S. Has Plan to Contain Coronavirus
- Ransomware Exposure Driving Up Cyber Insurance Costs
- Natural Disasters in Past Decade Broke Records for Economic, Insured Losses: Aon
- Toyota to Recall 3.4 Million Vehicles Over Defect in Air Bags
- IBM Calls For Rules to Curb Bias in Artificial Intelligence
- Wolf Promoted to President of Big I Advantage, Replacing Departing Buse
- Tort Reformers Proclaim Top 10 ‘Judicial Hellholes’ for 2020
- New Minority-Led Broker Protecdiv Shoots for $100M Within 5 Years, Record Diversity
- Tesla Pushes Back on Call for Probe; Denies Unintended Acceleration in Vehicles
- Judge Cuts Johnson & Johnson Damages in Risperdal Case From $8 Billion to $6.8 Million
- Airbnb Stresses Safety, Accountability in Governance Changes
- Court Dashes Teens’ Hopes, Says Suit Can’t Force Climate Action by Government
- Boeing Employees’ Emails on Pilot Training Could Boost Crash Victim Claims
- Aon’s Quintal Jumps to Marsh’s Financial Institutions Practice
- P/C Insurers Boosted Underwriting Profit, Surplus in 2019’s First 9 Months
- Supreme Court Says State Universities Not Immune to Patent Challenges
- Reuters Report: How Secrecy in Courts Stymies Safety Regulators
- Liberty Mutual Surety Launches Product Line for Small, Mid-Size Contractors
- Global Cannabis Revenue Pushed by Sales Doubling in Some U.S. States
- Recreational Cannabis Impairs Driving Even When Driver Not High: Harvard Research
- Citing Safety Concerns, 16 States Oppose Trump Plan to Ship Natural Gas by Rail
- Virtual Auto Insurance Agency Insurify Raises $23M; Will Expand Into Home, Renters, Life
- Panel Urges Mandatory Safety Systems for Aircraft Manufacturers
- Gemini, Seeing Insurance As Key to Future of Virtual Currency, Starts Own Captive
- Finance, Insurance Sector ‘Wins’ in U.S.-China Trade Deal Seem Familiar
- What the New U.S.-China Trade Agreement Says on Insurance
- Brownyard Group Expands Cemetery, Crematory, Library Programs into New States
- Judge Orders Opioid Distributor to Turn Over Corporate Records to Shareholders
- Philadelphia Insurance Names Doyle Co-Chief Underwriting Officer; Adds 3 Senior VPs
- Using Game Theory to Determine Who’s Liable: Autonomous Vehicle or Human Driver?
- Critics Say Puerto Rico Needs a Proactive Emergency Plan
- Ben & Jerry’s Says No Depositions Possible in Claims Against ‘Happy Cows’
- Captive Insurance Agents Turning Independent: How to Choose New Software
- Cyber Ranks as Top Peril for Companies Globally for 1st Time: Allianz Survey
- Supreme Court Declines to Hear Bonds Dispute in Puerto Rico Bankruptcy
- Brit Global Specialty Names AIG’s Ruhlman to U.S. Cyber Team
- Nonprofit Opening Flood Risk Model to Researchers and Public
- Harvard Professor Takes Aim at ‘Clickbait’ With Defamation Suit Against New York Times
- P. Barrett Brown Named President of Brown & Brown Retail Business
- FDA Report Cites Health Complaints About Juul E-Cigarettes
- Supreme Court Shows Interest in Child Slavery Appeals by Nestle, Cargill
- Kemper Gains $142 Million Arbitration Award Against Computer Firm
- Trump Administration Issues New Rule on Joint Employer Liability
- U.S. Panel Backs Tougher Asbestos Testing Standards for Cosmetics
- Jury Orders Wells Fargo to Pay $102.8 Million in USAA Mobile Deposit Patent Case
- Lawsuits Over Missing Malaysia Plane Belong in Malaysia, Not U.S., Court Affirms
- Puerto Rico Hit with Second Earthquake on Southern Coast; 4,000 People in Shelters
- Insurance Journal’s Top 10 Cyber Insurance Stories of 2019
- What’s Happening in Agency Compensation? Take This Year’s Salary Survey
- Insurity Acquires Geospatial Analytics Firm SpatialKey
- Accident Reports Now Ready Minutes After Crash on Smartphone, Says Telematics Firm
- Chamber of Commerce to Fight Corporate Breakups, Gig Worker Benefits
- Steelworkers Union Sues to Reverse EPA Weakening of Chemical Plant Rules
- New York Governor Lays out Aggressive Climate Change Plan
- Veteran Aon Executive Fitzgerald Joins QBE North America Specialty & Commercial
- Hundreds Left Homeless, Thousands Without Power from Puerto Rico Earthquake
- Trump Wants to Speed Infrastructure Projects by Dropping Climate Impact Assessment
- How Big Tech Hopes to Turn Cars into Connected Revenue Machines
- Parametric Insurance Fills Gaps Where Traditional Insurance Falls Short
- U.S. Had 14 Weather Disasters of $1 Billion or More in 2019
- U.S. Study Questions Baby Powder Link to Ovarian Cancer
- Ex-Lexington Insurance Exec Heads New National Specialty Broker One80
- Big I Education Director Boggs Takes on Expanded Role in Risk Management
- Lawyers Try Unusual Legal Path to Advance Sex Abuse Claims Against Boy Scouts
- Natural Catastrophes Cost $150B in 2019, with Insurers Paying $52B: Munich Re
- Teens Still Not Driving Like Teens Used To: Viewpoint
- Trump Administration Seeks to Limit ‘Overreach’ of Regulation of Artificial Intelligence
- O’Leary Succeeds Maguire as Philadelphia Insurance Chairman; Glomb Is President
- Insurance Journal’s Top 10 Cyber Risk Stories of 2019
- Everest Insurance Promotes Karmilowicz to President of North America P&C
- Look! Up in the Sky. Uber and Hyundai Unveil Air Taxi.
- Farmers Expands Program, Now Insuring Uber Drivers in 14 States and D.C.
- J&J Reported to Settle Baby Powder Claim for $2 Million
- Nexus Specialty to Offer Admitted Trade Credit Products through Crum & Forster
- FEMA Renews $1.3 Billion Reinsurance for Flood Program with 27 Carriers
- Chaucer Names 3 U.S. Property Executives
- Judge Triples Award for Hewlett Packard Against Quanta in Price-Fixing Scheme
- Digital MGA Clearcover Raises $50M; Plans on Entering More States, Becoming Carrier
- Insurance Market Shrinking as Senior Living Industry Grows
- Weinstein Criminal Trial on Rape Charge to Open 2 Years After #MeToo Movement Started
- 20 Democratic States Seek Supreme Court Ruling on Affordable Care Act
- Hanover Insurance Names Mitchell, Grieco to Key Commercial Lines Posts
- America Is Still Waiting for Trump’s ‘Much Better’ Replacement for Obamacare
- Trump Administration Issues Partial E-Cigarette Ban
- Homeland Security Balks at State Laws on Immigrant Drivers’ Licenses, Data Sharing
- Liberty Mutual to Insure Uber Drivers and Passengers in 7 States, Puerto Rico
- 2020 Predictions from Cannabis Industry Experts: More Insurance Business
- Employee Climate Group Claims Amazon Threatened Firings for Speaking Out
- Airbnb Insurance Leader Langone Becomes RIMS President for 2020
- Commercial Lines Insurtech Bold Penguin Acquires E&S Brokerage Tech Platform xagent
- Insurance Journal’s Top 10 National Stories of 2019
- Drugmakers Begin New Year by Raising Prices
- Appeals Court OKs Affordable Care Act’s Risk Payments to Insurers
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