All the headlines from our Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 23 2023 // Texas Medical Liability Trust (TMLT) provided notice that the company and its affiliates may have been affected by a recent data privacy event.On Oct. 12, 2022, TMLT identified suspicious activity within its environment...
Mar 23 2023 // Mosaic Insurance has launched litigation liability coverage, offering critical financial protection to policyholders against the risk of adverse legal costs when pursuing litigation or arbitration.Experienced litigation...
Mar 22 2023 // South Floridians may remember the case of a patient at Westchester General Hospital in Miami, who said she was sexually assaulted by a hospital worker on New Year’s Eve in 2019 while she was sedated. The...
Mar 21 2023 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at two London brokers: McGill and Partners and Howden Broking.A summary of these new hires follows here. McGill and Partners Hires Gallagher Re’s Turner...
Mar 21 2023 // Injured workers in Pennsylvania are entitled to be reimbursed for medical marijuana costs under the state’s workers’ compensation law.The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has ruled that while the Medical...
Mar 20 2023 // The Vermont Senate on Friday passed a bill that aims to protect health care workers from disciplinary action for providing abortions and gender-affirming health care, and change insurance premium charges related to such...
Mar 20 2023 // A landlord decides to lease a space in a retail strip center to a sports bar. The landlord’s commercial real estate representative sends the lease to the new prospective tenant to sign — it is a standard...
Mar 20 2023 // I initiated this column in 2019 with a 12-month series of articles summarizing the key points in my book “When Words Collide: Resolving Insurance Coverage and Claims Disputes.” In my June 2019 column, I wrote...
Mar 20 2023 // The restaurant and bar industry continues to serve up new ways to deliver their goods and services following the turbulent times experienced throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. While the most troublesome times have subsided,...
Mar 20 2023 // If you’ve sold a cyber liability insurance policy lately, you know how quickly the market has evolved. Policies that were once inexpensive and universally available are now high-priced and hard to find.Just a few...
Mar 20 2023 // As the costs and consequences of education escalate, educational institutions at all levels face a rapidly growing slate of property and liability risks, including increasing sports liabilities and coverage for...
Mar 17 2023 // An act of physical abuse is not excluded by an abuse and molestation exclusion in a homeowners insurance policy unless the act involves “an imbalance or misuse of power in addition to being physically harmful,”...
Mar 14 2023 // U.S. commercial insurance prices grew in the fourth quarter of 2022 by an average of 4.8%, down from the rate of 5.2% in the previous quarter (Q3 2022), according to WTW’s most recent Commercial Lines Insurance...
Mar 13 2023 // Mosaic Insurance has opened an office in Singapore and hired two specialty underwriters to build its transactional liability business across the Asia-Pacific region.Benn Wilson will serve as regional CEO, and head of Asia...
Mar 10 2023 // A Pennsylvania Superior Court three-judge panel has slashed $1.2 million from a $2.7 million jury award in a medical malpractice case alleging two cancer misdiagnoses, finding that one of the claims was not brought until...
Mar 8 2023 // A New York federal judge has refused to lower the curtain on a Covid-19 business loss claim by the owner of five Broadway theaters because the entertainment insurance policy language is ambiguous as to whether the theater...
Mar 6 2023 // A Kentucky House committee advanced a bill Tuesday to bolster disclosure requirements meant to reveal past misconduct allegations when teachers seek jobs in other school districts.Republican Rep. James Tipton said his bill...
Mar 6 2023 // The national combined average premium increased by 10.31%, and average liability premiums increased by 10.36% over the 2016-2020 period. The national combined average premium per insured vehicle was $1,176, a 2.4% decrease...
Mar 6 2023 // “Our thoughts remain with the people affected by the Fairview fire. We are reviewing this action and will respond to it through the proper legal channels.” — Southern California Edison spokesperson Reggie...
Mar 2 2023 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Chubb Tempest Re, Argenta Syndicate Management Ltd., and Mosaic Insurance.A summary of these new hires follows here. Ashley Promoted to Division President...