All the headlines from our Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 24 2022 // Boston-based specialty insurance broker One80 Intermediaries reports that it has acquired wholesaler broker Agentic Insurance of Radnor, Pennsylvania.Agentic is a privately owned specialty operation providing professional...
Aug 22 2022 // Liberty Mutual Names Former CNA Exec as President, GRS North AmericaLiberty Mutual Insurance announced the appointment of Kevin Smith as president of Global Risk Solutions (GRS) North America. Reporting to GRS President...
Aug 19 2022 // Allstate announced August 18 that Glenn Shapiro, president, Property-Liability, has decided to retire at the end of September. He joined Allstate as chief claims officer in 2016 and has held his current position since...
Aug 19 2022 // The owners of one of the oldest insurance agencies in Texas must have felt pretty surprised when they were named in a federal lawsuit brought by an AIG company, alleging the agency was part of an elaborate fraud that...
Aug 16 2022 // As in many business and commercial liability disputes, it’s all about the wording of the contract, a Florida appeals court decided in a medical malpractice case that could affect hospitals’ relationships with...
Aug 16 2022 // The mother of a man killed on a Baltimore construction site who was barred by Maryland’s workers’ compensation law from suing the contractor hired by the city has lost a bid to hold the city and subcontractor...
Aug 15 2022 // The supply chain crisis has seared itself into popular imagination through empty shelves where toilet paper once stood and a desperate shortage of baby formula. But the ripple effects that emanate from globally disrupted...
Aug 11 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance, Apollo Syndicate Management, and specialist MGA Aqueous Underwriting.A summary of these new hires follows here....
Aug 11 2022 // RiverStone, the U.S. insurance runoff specialist of the Fairfax insurance group, announced a tentative agreement to acquire Western Property & Casualty Insurance Co. to be effective this month.The shareholders of...
Aug 9 2022 // When the going gets tough, the tough get going. That might be the most apropos slogan for Axe Insurance Group.The logging industry may be about as tough of a business as one will find. Not only is it well-known to be...
Aug 9 2022 // CNA Hardy, the specialist commercial insurer that writes business within the Lloyd’s and company markets, announced increased flexibility in the attachment points available from its online excess-of-loss platform.By...
Aug 8 2022 // A judge handling a trial over liability for lead contamination in Flint’s water sealed the transcript of a hearing with lawyers, a conference held this week while jurors were on an 11-day break from deliberations.A...
Aug 4 2022 // At-Bay Expands Insurance Offerings With Launch of Miscellaneous Professional LiabilityAt-Bay announced the launch of its Miscellaneous Professional Liability (MPL) product, becoming the first to offer an automatically...
Aug 3 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance and AM Best.A summary of these new hires follows here. BHSI Hires Liberty Specialty’s Ferrari as Head of...
Aug 2 2022 // Plaintiffs’ California dreamin’ became a reality when a Los Angeles jury went nuclear with a verdict of $464.6 million after an eight-week trial in June. The verdict included $24.6 million in compensatory...
Aug 1 2022 // Directors and officers insurance has been pricey and tough to obtain for cannabis companies since the industry started requiring coverage.D&O is difficult in most business sectors (For more on that check out:...
Aug 1 2022 // To paraphrase Mark Twain — reports of the demise of insurance agencies have been greatly exaggerated.The local agency has been the backbone of the industry and the target of outside forces that have been trying to...
Aug 1 2022 // The number of contingent business interruption claims more than tripled in 2021 as a deep freeze in Texas shut down much of the state’s power grid and a fire at a semi-conductor plant in Japan contributed to a global...
Jul 27 2022 // Jurors heard closing arguments last week in the only trial to arise thus far from the Flint water crisis, a dispute over whether two engineering firms should be held partially responsible for the city’s lead...
Jul 26 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at the broker Howden RE and the MGA Alta Signa Europe.A summary of these new hires follows here. Howden RE Hires Former Carpenter Exec Thienel to Launch...