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Florida Approves New WC Rule: Carriers Must Verify Subcontractor Employees

Feb 1 2023 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance has laid down the law, requiring Florida workers’ compensation insurers to verify employees before arbitrarily charging premium for subcontractors’ exempt...

Connecticut Supreme Court Upholds Insurers in Two Covid-19 Business Loss Appeals

Jan 31 2023 // The Connecticut Supreme Court has upheld insurers in two cases where claims for business interruption losses blamed on Covid-19 were denied because there was no direct physical damage.One case involved healthcare...

Coalition Launches Full-Stack Cyber Insurer for SMBs

Jan 31 2023 // Insurtech Coalition on Jan. 30 announced the launch of a full-stack cyber insurance carrier.Coalition Insurance Company (CIC), what Coalition called the “the first full-stack, active cyber insurance carrier,”...

Insurers Hit With Thousands of Claims Following Storms and Floods in New Zealand

Jan 30 2023 // Major insurers operating in New Zealand including Insurance Australia Group and Suncorp Group have cumulatively received over 9,000 claims so far following severe storms and flooding in and around the biggest city,...

British Motor Insurer Direct Line’s CEO James Steps Down

Jan 27 2023 // Direct Line Insurance Group’s chief executive of nearly four years, Penny James, will step down with immediate effect after the British motor and home insurer faced “significant headwinds” in recent...

Tesla, Insurers Address Expensive Repairs in Sharply Different Ways

Jan 27 2023 // Tesla Inc.’s electric vehicles are expensive to repair – so much so that the automaker and insurers are addressing the issue in sharply different ways.Chief Executive Elon Musk says Tesla is making design and...

Few Florida Carriers Filed for Arbitration in 2022, But It’s Coming, Attorneys Say

Jan 26 2023 // After American Integrity Insurance Co. filed for a binding arbitration endorsement on homeowner policies one year ago, many in the industry expected a wave of other insurers to follow suit as claims litigation costs...

Attorney for La. Insurer Says Firm Working with Contractors to Find New Hurricane Claimants

Jan 25 2023 // An insurance defense attorney accuses the McClenny Moseley & Associates law firm of teaming up with restoration contractors to illegally acquire clients, which sometimes resulted in duplicate lawsuits being filed...

Jan. 1 Renewals: ‘They Got Done’; Carrier Overreliance on Reinsurers Corrected

Jan 24 2023 // When an AM Best analyst said, “Apparently, things didn’t go that bad” to describe 1/1 reinsurance renewals, he wasn’t actually saying anything unique.Carlos Wong-Fupuy, a senior director for AM...

How Agentsync Helps Insurance Producers and Adjusters Manage Carrier Requirements for Paper Licensing

Jan 24 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.Insurance agents want to get paid for the products they sell. They’ll ultimately choose to partner with the insurance carriers that get commissions paid quickly...

UK Insurers Fear That Promised Brexit Capital Reforms Will Be Derailed

Jan 23 2023 // Insurers loved the UK government’s long-awaited plans to free up billions of pounds of their capital. But after the celebrations have come fears that regulators could nudge the changes in a more cautious...

Insurer Finds No Foundation Problems in Connecticut Public Buildings

Jan 23 2023 // A review of concrete foundations of public buildings in northeastern Connecticut, including schools and fire stations, has found no widespread deterioration problems like what’s plagued hundreds of residential...

Florida Adjusters Say No Action on Charges of Insurers Doctoring Their Reports

Jan 20 2023 // Five weeks after three independent adjusters told Florida lawmakers that insurance carriers have frequently doctored their damage assessment reports, the men said they’ve had no contact from state agencies about the...

Washington Commissioner Fines Insurers, Producers

Jan 20 2023 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler issued fines in December totaling $55,500 against insurance companies, producers, brokers, and individuals who violated state insurance laws and regulations.Following is a...

Insurers Agree to Extend ALE Coverage for Colorado Wildfire Survivors

Jan 19 2023 // Insurers agreed to a request from the Colorado Division of Insurance to extend additional living expenses coverage for Marshall Fire survivors.Homeowners’ insurance companies have agreed to extend coverage for up to...

Major Aviation Insurer AXA Pulls Back on War Coverage After Ukraine Losses: Reuters

Jan 19 2023 // The commercial arm of French insurer AXA is reducing cover offered to aviation companies as it seeks to protect the multibillion-euro business after heavy Ukraine-related losses, two underwriting and broking sources told...

Insurers Do Not Have to Defend in Opioid Litigation, Federal Appeals Court Finds

Jan 18 2023 // Two insurance carriers have no duty to defend or to indemnify Quest Pharmaceuticals in lawsuits brought over the drug distributor’s role in the opioid crisis, a federal appeals court decided last week. The opinion...

Banker’s Heirs Sue Japanese Insurer Over Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’

Jan 18 2023 // Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting should be returned to the family of its former owner by Sompo Holdings Inc., the Japanese insurer that bought the famous artwork despite its tainted Nazi-era past, according to...

Pennsylvania Mail Carrier Case Tests ‘Reasonable Accommodation’ for Religion

Jan 18 2023 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear an appeal by an evangelical Christian former mail carrier in Pennsylvania who accused the U.S. Postal Service of religious bias after being reprimanded for refusing to...

Appeals Court Rules Insurers Not Obligated to Defend Distributor of Opioids

Jan 17 2023 // Westfield National Insurance Co. and Motorists Mutual Insurance Co. are not required by their insurance contracts to defend generic drug distributor Quest Pharmaceuticals against dozens of opioid-related lawsuits.According...