All the headlines from our Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 5 2025 // The 2025 presidential administration is likely to lead to changes for the healthcare liability landscape.Potential deregulation initiatives could ease administrative burdens on providers and improve efficiency; however,...
May 1 2025 // Over the last decade, scientists have rapidly developed the field of climate attribution research, teasing out the role played by global warming in individual natural disasters. Meanwhile, their ways of tracking a single...
Apr 28 2025 // A Vermont Superior Court has approved a state takeover and rehabilitation plan for a medical professional liability insurer for 1,300 physicians that the state says is in hazardous financial condition as a result of a...
Apr 28 2025 // Dog and other pet owners and insurers in New York are now exposed to increased risk of liability in the wake of a Court of Appeals ruling that allows an injured party to bring an ordinary negligence claim against a...
Apr 22 2025 // Laura Coppola Falcon Risk Services, an MGA majority owned by HDI Global Specialty, a wholly owned subsidiary of HDI Global SE, announced the appointment of Laura Coppola as executive vice president, head of management...
Apr 22 2025 // Transatlantic Underwriters, a specialized wholesale brokerage for trucking and transportation insurance, is making a limited move into broader property-casualty coverage. The Marietta, Georgia-based firm, founded in 1989,...
Apr 21 2025 // India is planning to ease its nuclear liability laws to cap accident-related penalties on equipment suppliers, three government sources said, in a move mainly to attract U.S. firms that have been holding back due to the...
Apr 11 2025 // Willis, a WTW business headquartered in New York City, appointed Dom Spinelli as head of transactional insurance claims for North America. He leads the claims function within Willis’ Alternative Asset Insurance...
Apr 10 2025 // A 911 dispatch center is not necessarily part of a county’s emergency services department and is not covered by a secondary liability insurance policy, a federal appeals court found this week in a decision that will...
Apr 4 2025 // The Travelers Companies launched Travelers Cyber Risk Services, a suite of capabilities added to all cyber liability policies designed to help lower the risk of a cyberattack and the cost to recover from one.In addition to...
Apr 1 2025 // The fate of a bill that would modify South Carolina’s joint-and-several liability law now rests with the state House of Representatives after the state Senate last week approved the measure following weeks of heated...
Mar 25 2025 // QBE North America Introduces Media Liability EndorsementQBE North America announced a new media liability endorsement for media organizations facing legal actions brought under consumer protection laws. This endorsement...
Mar 7 2025 // The South Carolina House of Representatives voted 109-0 Thursday in favor of a bill that would end joint-and-several liability for bars and restaurants and would incentivize additional alcohol-server training, an effort to...
Mar 6 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Tokio Marine HCC International and the broker Miller.A summary of these new hires follows here. Tokio Marine HCC Int’l Promotes Gower as Head of...
Feb 27 2025 // Templar Specialty announced that it is now expanding its executive and professional liability insurance offerings to include excess and A-side Directors & Officers coverage to public companies. This follows the success...
Feb 19 2025 // CFC Launches Cyber Portfolio Quoting for American BrokersCFC said it has launched a new service to automate quoting for up to thousands of policies. Initially available for CFC’s cyber products, US brokers can now...
Feb 19 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Hamilton Global Specialty and QBE European Operations.A summary of these new hires follows here. Hamilton Global Specialty Promotes Thorp as Head of Space,...
Feb 19 2025 // Apollo, the London-based insurance group, announced they have expanded their offering into drone product liability.Apollo is providing the capacity for this product liability offering as part of an existing binder with...
Feb 14 2025 // Mosaic Insurance has launched a combined environmental product that merges primary commercial general liability with a suite of added pollution and professional coverages.The company’s new Site Pollution &...
Feb 12 2025 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group.The post-pandemic workplace has brought significant changes to the employment liability landscape. Disability discrimination and retaliation claims have...