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#1 New Jersey Casino Workers Light Up in State House to Protest Smoking in Workplace

Dec 18 2023 // With prospects for a smoking ban in Atlantic City`s casinos looking hazier than ever, workers who want smoking banned took matters into their own hands, lips and lungs Thursday.Members of the United Auto Workers union...

#2 Commercial Lines Not at Top of Cycle; ‘Thieves’ Fuel Social Inflation: CEOs

Jul 9 2024 // It’s not waning market discipline but the scourge of social inflation that industry leaders of commercial lines insurance businesses see as a potential threat to future profits, a trio of property/casualty chief...

#3 Q3 2023 Signals Six Years of Premium Increases for Commercial Lines: CIAB

Nov 30 2023 // Overall commercial property/casualty premiums increased slightly more than 8% on average in the third quarter, marking six full years of steady increases.According to The Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers’ Q3...

#4 Probe Into Death of Nurse on Home Visit Alleges Employer Failed to Protect Workers

May 3 2024 // A home health care company failed to protect a visiting nurse who was killed during an appointment with a convicted rapist at a Connecticut halfway house and should be fined about $161,000, federal workplace safety...

#5 Activision Blizzard to Pay $54M to Settle California Workplace Claims

Dec 18 2023 // Activision Blizzard has agreed to pay about $54 million to settle discrimination claims brought by California’s civil rights agency on behalf of women employed by the video game maker.The settlement, which is subject...

#6 State Troopers Arrested for Alleged Commercial Driver’s License Bribery Scam

Jan 31 2024 // Two current and two former Massachusetts State Police troopers are among six charged in connection with an alleged conspiracy to give passing scores to certain Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) applicants, including...

#7 Aon-NFP Merger a Win-Win for Middle Market Segment, Aon Says

Dec 22 2023 // A merger between Aon and NFP will be a win-win for both brokers, creating a company that will be greater than the sum of its parts. While those weren’t the exact words used by Aon’s CEO Greg Case, they were...

#8 Viewpoint: Insurers Face Added Role in Curbing Workplace Violence With California Law

Apr 25 2024 // New legislation aimed at reducing workplace violence in California vastly increases employers’ responsibilities and hands workers’ compensation insurers an unprecedented oversight role that is likely to trigger...

#9 Commercial Auto Insurance Profit Struggles Continue

Jul 15 2024 // The commercial auto insurance segment maintained its place as a weaker-performing U.S. property/casualty insurance product line in 2023. Despite successive periods of pricing and underwriting actions, commercial auto has...

#10 Construction Defects Are Not Covered Property Damage in Commercial Liability Policy

Aug 16 2024 // A home builder is not covered under the property damage coverage in its commercial liability policy for construction defects for which it was responsible.A three-judge panel of the Massachusetts Appeals Court has held for...

#11 AM Best Maintains Stable Outlook for U.S. Property/Casualty Commercial Lines

Dec 6 2023 // Persistently strong underwriting performance during and after the global pandemic – despite substantial economic and capital markets volatility – has prompted AM Best to maintain its “stable” outlook for...

#12 ‘Dirty Dozen’ Unsafe Employers Putting Workers at Risk

May 1 2024 // A retail giant, a space launch operation, a major food processor, the nation’s two biggest rideshare providers and a large healthcare system are among those entities marked as being among the most unsafe...

#13 Soft Commercial Market Ahead: Prepare for Underwriter ‘Herd Behavior’

Oct 29 2024 // Executive Summary: During the period 2013 through 2018, the U.S. did not become less litigious nor did Atlantic sea surface temperatures get less warm. Yet rates for U.S. excess liability and Atlantic hurricane both...

#14 Philadelphia Eagles Seek to Extend Covid-19 Business Insurance Bid Into Overtime

Nov 19 2024 // The Philadelphia Eagles football organization wants to force its case for Covid-19 business interruption insurance against insurer Factory Mutual Insurance Co. into overtime, arguing that its situation is unlike any other...

#15 Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Workplace Safety Agency

Jul 2 2024 // The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to hear a challenge by an Ohio company to the power of the federal workplace safety regulator as the justices avoided another legal effort to pare back the authority of federal...

#16 Chubb Survey of Middle-Market Brokers Finds Lack of Awareness of Flood Risk

Nov 29 2023 // Though the risk of flooding is undeniable, a survey by Chubb of brokers with middle-market commercial clients revealed just 16% of them say more than half their clients buy flood insurance.Furthermore, 65% of the more than...

#17 Small Business Market: Rising Costs, Hard Market but Hope for New Opportunities

Mar 4 2024 // There are reasons to be optimistic about the small business insurance market. New businesses are opening their doors every day. Small business start-ups are booming with record-breaking new business applications reported...

#18 Workplace Flexibility Is Key to Employee Retention: Research

Oct 9 2024 // Less than a month after Amazon announced employees would need to give up their flexible work arrangements and return to the office full-time, new research has reinforced the value of a flexible work culture.The 2024...

#19 Economic, Social Inflation Influence Drop in Commercial Auto UW Profits: Triple-I/CAS

Oct 28 2024 // Commercial auto insurance has struggled to achieve underwriting profitability, even before inflationary conditions affected property/casualty lines in recent years. The trend has been accompanied by steady growth in net...

#20 California Workplace Violence Law a Best Practice No Matter What State You’re in

May 14 2024 // California Senate Bill 553 is groundbreaking legislation that aims to prevent workplace violence and enhance employee safety and security in California. The law elevates California’s commitment to protecting workers,...