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D.C. Postpones All P/C Insurance Rate Increases During COVID Crisis

Dec 1 2020 // The Washington D.C. Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB) issued a new insurance bulletin to notify all property and casualty insurers that for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic, all filed rate...

Ames & Gough Promotes Four Executives in Washington D.C., Boston

Sep 10 2020 // Ames & Gough, an insurance broker and risk management consultant specializing in serving design professionals, law firms, associations/nonprofits and other professional service organizations, has appointed equity...

Coalition Expands Admitted Cyber Insurance Offering into Florida

Aug 17 2020 // Coalition, an online cyber insurance and security company, has expanded its admitted cyber insurance offering into Florida following approval from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation. Businesses and organizations...

Lockton Names Duffy President of Washington D.C., Northern Virginia Offices

Aug 12 2020 // Lockton has promoted Ryan Duffy to president of its Washington D.C. and Northern Virginia offices.Duffy is responsible for the ongoing stewardship of new and existing clients in the region. He oversees new business...

Kentucky Teen Settles Lawsuit Against Washington Post Over D.C. Encounter

Aug 10 2020 // A Kentucky teen and The Washington Post have settled a lawsuit over the newspaper’s coverage of his encounter with a Native American man at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington last year.The teen’s lawyers said...

D.C. Judge Rules For Insurer, Dismisses Restaurants’ Business Interruption Claims

Aug 7 2020 // The insurance industry has notched another victory in its defense of its commercial insurance policies against claims for business interruption due to the coronavirus.In a case brought by the owner of several restaurants...

Kentucky Teen Settles Lawsuit Against Washington Post Over D.C. Encounter

Jul 27 2020 // A Kentucky teen and The Washington Post have settled a lawsuit over the newspaper’s coverage of his encounter with a Native American man at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington last year.The teen’s lawyers said...

Mintz Adds Five to Insurance and Reinsurance Practice in Washington D.C., New York

Jul 20 2020 // Law firm Mintz has added a group of five practitioners to its Insurance and Reinsurance Practice.Deirdre G. Johnson, Paul W. Kalish, Suman Chakraborty and Ellen MacDonald Farrell joined as members, and Elaine Panagakos...

Climate Change Litigants Argue Human Rights, Consumer Harm in Suing Oil Firms

Jul 6 2020 // LONDON/WASHINGTON/GENEVA — Climate change may be having its day in court.With the slow pace of international climate negotiations, lawyers from Switzerland to San Francisco are increasingly filing lawsuits demanding...

District of Columbia Sues 4 Oil Majors for Misleading Consumers on Climate Change

Jun 26 2020 // The attorney general for the District of Columbia on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil Corp, BP Plc, Chevron Corp, and Royal Dutch Shell Plc for “systematically and intentionally misleading”...

Washington D.C.’s Incapsulate Hires Siegel to Insurance Industry Team

Jun 25 2020 // Incapsulate has hired insurance veteran Stephen Siegel to its insurance industry team. For more than 25 years, Siegel has worked with companies in all segments of insurance including life, property and casualty, group,...

Insurers Prepare for Claims as East States See Property Damage from Civil Unrest

Jun 4 2020 // Scenes that played out over the past few days in several East region states are serving as a stark reminder for the insurance industry of civil unrest that took place in New York and other U.S. states more than 50 years...

Maryland, Virginia, D.C. Intend to Sue EPA on Bay Pollution

May 20 2020 // Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia filed a notice of intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to require two other states to implement plans to cut pollution in the Chesapeake Bay,...

Haynes and Boone Hires Raptis as a Partner in Its Washington D.C. Office

Mar 6 2020 // Haynes and Boone LLP has hired Stephen Raptis as a partner in the Washington, D.C., office, bolstering the national expansion of the firm’s Insurance Recovery Practice Group.Over his 25-year career, Raptis has...

CBIZ Acquires Alliance Insurance Services of Washington D.C.

Feb 7 2020 // CBIZ Inc., a provider of financial, insurance and advisory services, has acquired substantially all of the assets of Alliance Insurance Services Inc. (AIS) of Washington, D.C., effective February 1, 2020. With roots dating...

Uber Goes to Washington. Autonomous Cars with Humans to Collect Data in D.C.

Jan 24 2020 // Uber Technologies Inc. will put self-driving vehicles on Washington, D.C. roads Friday with human drivers in control, the ride share company said on Thursday, as it seeks to collect data for future deployment of fully...

Farmers Expands Program, Now Insuring Uber Drivers in 14 States and D.C.

Jan 7 2020 // Farmers Insurance has expanded its relationship with Uber by providing commercial automobile insurance to its ridesharing drivers in 12 additional states and the District of Columbia.In addition to the District of...

Vape Crisis Prompts Calls for Greater Clarity in Cannabis Regulation

Dec 3 2019 // Cannabis industry lawyers are calling for greater clarity around regulation of the cannabis industry.Panelists at the 2019 Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) Conference in Washington D.C. this month said...

Two Workers Hurt in Crash Between Washington D.C. Commuter Trains

Oct 11 2019 // Authorities in Washington, D.C., say two regional transit agency workers were hurt when one commuter train rear-ended another. WTOP-FM reports D.C. Fire and EMS tweeted that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit...

Workers’ Compensation Premiums Up 2.2% in First Half of 2019

Oct 7 2019 // In the aggregate, workers’ compensation insurers reported a modest increase in direct written premiums in the U.S. for the first six months of 2019 versus the same period 2018, up 2.2%. However, the 25 carriers with...