All the headlines from our Business Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 24 2022 // As COVID-19 cases surge in the United States, businesses say they fear a California court ruling has increased the likelihood that companies will be sued for infections, even by people who are not employees or...
Jan 18 2022 // A year of unprecedented cyber-attacks, business interruption and supply chain disruption, along with natural catastrophe activity has pushed these three perils to the top of the list of global business risks in this...
Jan 14 2022 // The Supreme Court yesterday blocked the Biden Administration from implementing an order requiring businesses with more than 100 employees to require COVID-19 vaccines or testing and masks for their employees.In National...
Jan 14 2022 // The cost of settling workplace class-action lawsuits reached a record high in 2021, defying expectations that the COVID-19 pandemic would decrease the size and reduce the number of payouts, according to a new report by the...
Jan 12 2022 // As COVID-19 cases surge in the United States, businesses say they fear a California court ruling has increased the likelihood that companies will be sued for infections, even by people who are not employees or...
Jan 12 2022 // Willis Towers Watson announced the formation of a new Crisis Management unit with the merger of Special Contingency Risks (SCR) and the Terror and Political Violence teams, which will sit within its Financial Solutions...
Jan 10 2022 // The Louisiana Supreme Court on Jan. 7 unanimously upheld a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for the state’s largest healthcare system.The ruling was handed down the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments about...
Jan 10 2022 // A lawsuit has been filed in federal court challenging New York City’s sweeping mandate requiring nearly all private-sector businesses to ban unvaccinated employees from the workplace, asserting that the city’s...
Jan 7 2022 // The National Safety Council (NSC) released survey findings showing that employer vaccine requirements are driving higher vaccination rates among workers.According to the survey, employer vaccine requirement led to a 20%...
Jan 6 2022 // San Francisco, California-based Coalition named Jennifer Livingstone head of strategic agency management.Livingstone has more than 25 years of leadership experience in broker management, business development, marketing,...
Jan 4 2022 // Businesses figured out how to work remotely on the fly when COVID-19 rapidly disrupted their ways of working. Those planning to adopt a hybrid work model when they return to the office still have time to prepare. But...
Dec 29 2021 // An October 21, 2021, decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ordered UHS of Fuller Inc. and UHS of Delaware Inc. to pay the U.S. Department of Labor $30, 515.63 in attorneys’ fees after...
Dec 28 2021 // In a more typical time, burnout is an exception. In the era of COVID, it almost feels like the norm.According to Jennifer Moss, organizations should take a hard look in the mirror for fostering cultures of overwork that...
Dec 27 2021 // During the pandemic, worker deaths decreased by 10.7% in 2020 compared to 2019, with 4,764 fatal workplace injuries, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its annual report on workplace fatalities for 2020. This...
Dec 22 2021 // A Kansas contractor faces $223,000 in penalties after a U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration found that the company exposes its workers to asbestos and other workplace hazards. The OSHA...
Dec 20 2021 // A knot saw operator suffered a partial amputation of an index finger in June 2021 when his hand came in contact with a rotating blade that lacked adequate machine guarding. A few weeks earlier, a similar saw at the Maxwell...
Dec 20 2021 // In a move criticized by business groups and hailed by labor advocates, California’s workplace regulators extended the state’s coronavirus pandemic regulations into next year with revisions that employers said...
Dec 20 2021 // Employers may be warming up to the idea that fighting some workers’ compensation claims and medical treatments can be counterproductive, and new emphasis should be placed on keeping injured workers happy — and...
Dec 19 2021 // A federal appeals court panel on Friday allowed President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for larger private employers to move ahead, reversing a previous decision on a requirement that could affect some 84...
Dec 19 2021 // Tens of millions of workers across the U.S. are in limbo as federal courts have issued different rulings related to President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates for larger private companies, certain health care...