National News for January 2018
- Risk Theory Launches Auto Service, Repair Garage Program
- Alfa Names Chancey P/C Insurance Operations Chief
- Court Upholds Consumer Financial Bureau Structure Over Trump, Business Complaints
- Allianz Acquires Liberty International’s U.S. Product Recall Business Renewals
- Chubb Records Solid Q4 and Year Despite Catastrophe Losses
- Casualty Catastrophe Modeler Praedicat Raises $6 Million
- 5 Simple Risk Management Tips for Super Bowl LII
- Puerto Rico Bondholders Suffer Setback as Lawsuit Dismissed
- Business Risk Partners Expands Into Financial Services Sector
- Number of Securities Class Actions Up But Settlement Values Down
- SEC Inquires About MetLife’s Missed Pension Payments
- 3 Giants – Berkshire, Amazon, JPMorgan- to Form Joint Employee Health Venture
- No, Thank You, I Don’t Want to Insure My Pizza: Viewpoint
- Share Your Story: Sexual Harassment and the Workplace
- Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Enters Personal Lines Segment
- Trump’s SEC Considering Shielding Companies from Investor Class Action Suits
- After Catastrophes, ‘Pricing Complacency,’ P/C Insurers Face Real Test in 2018: S&P
- Americans’ Fear of Driverless Cars Subsiding: AAA Survey
- Jury Finds AbbVie Not Liable in AndroGel Injury Suit
- Hartford Steam Boiler Launches HSB Cyber Suite for Mid-Sized Businesses
- Workplace Wellness Programs Are an Exercise in Futility, Latest Research Finds
- Justice Department Seeks Dismissals of ‘Meritless’ Whistleblower Suits
- CNA Makes 3 Commercial Insurance Appointments
- Top 10 Employment Discrimination Charges in 2017
- Satisfied Independent Agents Are Growth Engines for P/C Carriers: J.D. Power
- Insurance Industry Making ‘Significant Contributions’ in Climate Change Battle, Report Shows
- Startup Neptune Offering Digital Private Flood Product to Agents, Carriers in Nationwide Expansion
- Participate in Insurance Journal’s Annual Agency Salary Survey
- January Renewals Saw Rate Hikes of Up to 5%, with More Expected: S&P
- 2017’s Natural Hazards and the Destruction They Brought: CoreLogic
- Senate Committee Hopes to Restart Bill to Ease Entry of Driverless Cars
- Keeping Flood Insurance Above Water: Commentary
- P/C Insurers’ Bottom Line Should Benefit from Trump Tax Cut
- Google Parent Alphabet Enters Cyber Security Market with Chronicle
- Insured Natural Disaster Losses in 2017 Were 38% of Economic Costs of $353B: Aon
- Lockton Promotes Goldstine to Lead U.S. Casualty Practice
- Beazley Adds Post-Breach Services to Cyber Coverage for Small, Mid-Sized Policyholders
- In 2017, Labor Lawyers Raced to Settle Class Actions Before Trump Effect
- With $25 Million in New Funding, Home Insurtech Hippo to Expand
- Express Scripts Fight Over Cyber Disclosure Reaches SEC
- $19 Billion in Potential Losses from Cloud Services Failure Mostly Uninsured: Lloyd’s, AIR
- Travelers Manages Q4 Profit Despite Wildfires, Tax Hit
- Liberty Mutual Sells Off Life Insurance Unit, Realigns U.S., Global P/C Business
- Khan Promoted to CEO, President at ThinkRisk and CorPro
- SpaceX Lost Satellite on U.S. Mission Was Uninsured
- AIG’s Dealmaker CEO Duperreault Says Validus ‘Fits Like a Glove’
- If They Try It, They’ll Like It: How Ridesharing, Autonomous Cars Will Win Over the Public
- Good2Go Auto Insurance to Offer Distracted Driving App Through LifeSaver
- What Government Shutdown Means for P/C Insurance Industry
- AIG to Buy Bermuda Reinsurer Validus for $5.6B in Cash, Reversing Retrenchment
- Companies Across Globe Race to Comply with EU’s Data Protection Law
- Cyber Attacks on U.S. Power Grids Can Be Deterred With Password Changes
- McDonald’s, U.S. Labor Board Begin Talks to Settle ‘Joint Employment’ Trial
- Saudi Arabia Asks U.S. Judge to Throw Out 9/11 Lawsuits
- Women More Likely Than Men to Lose U.S. Jobs by Automation: WEF Report
- Commercial Automobile Remains Sore Spot in P/C: A.M. Best
- U.S. Regulator Pulls Back from MetLife’s ‘Too-Big-to-Fail’ Designation
- U.S. Banks Face Growing Threat from Cyber Attacks: New Bank Regulator
- Bankruptcy Judge Rules GM’s $1 Billion Stock Settlement Over Ignition Invalid
- Insurance Chief Jain’s Berkshire Hathaway Shares Top $100 Million
- Image System Promises to Identify Unsafe Traffic Intersections Before Accidents Happen
- Business, Political Leaders List Cyber Attacks, Geopolitical Tensions as Top Concerns: WEF Survey
- Insurance Agency M&As Soared 31% in 2017: OPTIS
- Insurtech Lemonade’s Co-Founder Accuses Amazon of Poaching Employees
- How the U.S. Can Improve Workplace Injury and Illness Data
- National Interstate Forms Captive for Towing & Recovery Industry
- Brit Global Specialty USA Adds Arch’s Hartman to Construction Practice
- Change at Top at AmWINS: Purviance to Take Over DeCarlo’s CEO Role
- Cyber Incidents Most Feared BI Trigger for Global Companies: Allianz Risk Report
- Ascent Launches Allied Health Professional Liability Product
- Number of Americans Without Health Insurance Rose by 3 Million in 2017: Gallup
- Backers Call for Restarting Stalled Bipartisan Bill to Speed Autonomous Vehicles
- Supreme Court Agrees to Weigh Damages for Overseas Patent Infringement
- EIURS Adds Marine Energy Unit to Energy Division
- E&S Exit: State Auto’s Rockhill Sells Environmental Insurance Renewals to CapSpecialty
- GE Still Grappling with Legacy Insurance Business
- BP Still Paying Gulf Oil Spill Claims as Court Battles Wind Down
- Supreme Court Case on SEC Judges Could Disrupt Administrative Proceedings
- Appeals Court Thwarts Goldman Shareholders’ Class Action Over Subprime Securities
- After Another Death by Airbag, Ford Warns Owners of Older Pickups to Stop Driving
- GM Seeks OK for Self-Driving Commercial Vehicle Without Steering Wheel for 2019
- Chances of La Niña Top 85%, Says National Weather Service
- Federal Disaster Mitigation Saves $6 for Every $1 Spent: Report
- Senators Propose Heavy Fines for Credit Agencies Over Privacy Data Breaches
- General Star, Norman-Spencer Partner on Online Program for Real Estate Appraisers
- Green Bonds Booming Despite Washington’s Animus, Report Shows
- Verisk’s ISO Personal Lines Program Targets $40 Billion Private Flood Insurance Market
- Ford Denies Truck Owners’ Claims of Diesel Cheating
- Most Commercial Insurance Rates Were Up Slightly in Q4: IVANS Index
- Federal Safety Agency Seeks to Remove Roadblocks to Autonomous Trucks, Buses
- Alternative Capital Responds to 2017 Catastrophes with ‘Show of Strength’: Aon Benfield
- Homeowners Insurtech Hippo Partners with Spinnaker to Expand into States
- AmTrust Weighs Going Private with Stone Point Capital, CEO Zyskind
- Judge Nixes $28 Million Xarelto Jury Award in Victory for Bayer, J&J
- Likely Buffett Successors Abel, Jain Promoted at Berkshire Hathaway
- AIG Reported to Have Held Talks to Acquire Voya
- Judge Overseeing Local Opioid Lawsuits Hopes for ‘Meaningful’ Settlement
- U.S. Reinsurance Outlook Remains Negative for 2018, Says A.M. Best
- ‘Super Underwriter’ Hoopingarner Wins Insurance Journal’s ‘Coolest Part of Your Job’ Contest
- eReinsure Adds Blockchain Services to Reinsurance Technology Platform
- AmTrust’s TapSafe Covers All of a Consumer’s Connected Devices with a Single App
- Ethos Specialty Names Liberty International’s Carr to Head Property Unit
- Drivers Aren’t Going Away Anytime Soon, Say Driverless Car Leaders
- Hiscox Names Micheals as Chief Underwriting Officer in U.S. as Goodwin Retires
- Blackstone Aims to Grow Insurance Asset Management to $100 Billion
- Fired Engineer Sues Google Alleging Anti-Conservative Political Bias
- Trump Promises Farmers He’ll Back Crop Insurance
- Appalachian Underwriters Launches Monoline Sewer Back-Up, Pump Overflow Coverage
- Wary Businesses Test Fixes for Chip Flaws Before Installing
- Judge Tosses ‘Underfilled Lattes’ Class Action Against Starbucks
- Commercial Lines Insurance Outlook Improves for 2018, Says A.M. Best
- FEMA Expands Flood Reinsurance Program with Private Reinsurers for 2018
- Takata Recalls 3.3 Million More Airbags
- QBE North America Appoints Franzetti as Chief Operating Officer
- Starr Companies Adds Crisis Coverage to Side ‘A’ D&O Endorsement
- FEMA Declares Church Centers Now Eligible for U.S. Disaster Aid
- Willis Towers Watson Appoints Pennington as Large Account Leader
- Catastrophe Bond Issuance Tops New Record of $10.5B in 2017: Verisk Report
- Intel Downplays Effect of Security Flaw as Investors Worry About Liability
- Trump Rule Permits Health Plans by Self-Employed, Small Businesses That Skirt Obamacare
- Telematics CEO: 5 Trends to Watch in 2018 in Auto Insurance
- 3 Changes at the Top at Allstate as Winter to Retire as President
- Beazley Names Moy to New U.S. Marine Insurance Underwriting Team
- What to Do About Newly-Discovered Computer Security Flaws
- Natural Catastrophe Claims in 2017 Reached a Record $135B: Munich Re
- How Takata Bankruptcy Could Affect Compensation for Car Owners
- Genworth Not Giving Up on Being Acquired by China’s Oceanwide
- CFC Underwriting Launches New Product for U.S. Nutraceutical Companies
- Outages, Flooding Expected as Giant Snow and Ice ‘Bomb’ Targets Eastern States
- Experts Warn of Security Flaws That Expose Most Computers, Phones to Hackers
- Disasters Affected 8% of U.S. Population in 2017, FEMA Notes in Review of Historic Year
- Citing National Security, U.S. Kills MoneyGram Sale to China’s Ant Financial
- Music Streaming Firm Spotify Faces $1.6 Billion Copyright Infringement Lawsuit
- Railroads Urged to Accelerate Installation of Safety System
- International Drone Racing Association Simplifies Drone Insurance Policy
- Property Reinsurance Rates Rise Less Than Expected in Jan. 1 Renewals
- XL Catlin Launches Coverage for Marine Contractors
- Aon Acquires Real Estate Investment Advisor Townsend Group
- 5 Ways to Make 2018 the Best Year Yet
- GM Court Win Could Narrow Ignition Switch Liability Litigation
- Netflix vs. HBO and the Race to the Insurance Customer
- 2017 Was Safest Year Ever for Airlines
- More Victims Learning About Available Recourse in Sexual Harassment Cases
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