All the headlines from our Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 6 2021 // Roughly three dozen pieces of California legislation are directly related to wildfire, and while those bills should hold much interest for the insurance community, there are other bills making their rounds that should draw...
Apr 5 2021 // A pair of companion bills have been introduced in the Texas House and Senate that proponents say are aimed at providing consistency and uniformity in civil actions involving commercial vehicle accidents. Opponents, on the...
Apr 5 2021 // Uber Technologies Inc. lost the first round in a lawsuit filed by the relatives of a university student who was run over and killed on a San Diego freeway after one of the company’s drivers allegedly ordered her out...
Apr 5 2021 // See a need and then fill it. That’s the secret of most successful businesses — and that was the driving motivator of insurtech Thimble, which is currently working on coverage for small business customers during...
Apr 5 2021 // In some recent Academy of Insurance classes, I’ve been asking people about their working situation. Most of the people I’ve been talking to transitioned for a while to the work from home space, and many are...
Apr 1 2021 // Kentucky lawmakers voted to shield businesses and health care facilities from coronavirus-related lawsuits as they hurried to finish work Tuesday before ending this year’s session.Beshear’s office said the...
Mar 31 2021 // The Arizona House voted this week to give businesses, nursing homes and others a broad shield from lawsuits related to COVID-19.Republicans approved the measure in a 31-29 party-line vote, saying businesses struggled...
Mar 31 2021 // 360 Coverage Pros has launched a professional liability insurance program for tax preparers with an online application.The program features liability limits of up to $1 million and is designed for professionals providing...
Mar 31 2021 // Florida businesses, governments and healthcare providers will be protected from coronavirus lawsuits if they made a good effort to follow guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19 under a bill signed by Republican Gov....
Mar 31 2021 // Hong Kong is expected to have its own blank check company listing framework ready in June for public feedback and targets allowing deals to start by the end of this year, according to people familiar with the matter.The...
Mar 30 2021 // E&S wholesale broker and managing general agency Risk Placement Services (RPS) has launched an insurance product for home-based businesses with AXIS Insurance that is available to purchase online.The quote-bind-issue...
Mar 30 2021 // Insurtechs focused on consumer management of insurance policies and commercial fleet analytics are expanding their reach following funding rounds.Also, a new platform for offering management liability insurance to small...
Mar 30 2021 // Rockwood Programs Inc., a full-service managing general agency, has appointed Carol Cole to chief marketing officer.In this role, Cole is responsible for marketing employment practices liability, insurance agents errors...
Mar 29 2021 // Florida businesses, governments and healthcare providers will be protected from coronavirus lawsuits if they made a good effort to follow guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19 under a bill the House sent to...
Mar 29 2021 // The lawsuit from a 2017 crash of an airplane on 1900 West in Roy lingers on, more than three years after it was filed.The pilot, apparently, was not insured, leaving Samantha Sandoval – hit in her car in the Sept. 12,...
Mar 26 2021 // Marsh and Hamilton announced several professional appointments this week.Hamilton Insurance Group, Ltd. has appointed Jamie Secor as head of Professional Liability Insurance at its U.S. managing general agency, Hamilton...
Mar 26 2021 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled against Ford Motor Co. in a case in which the second-largest U.S. automaker had sought to bar two state courts from hearing product liability suits involving a pair of...
Mar 25 2021 // A battle is brewing between trucking and insurance industry interests and trial lawyers in Texas over a pair of companion bills introduced in the Texas House and Senate that proponents say are aimed at providing...
Mar 25 2021 // West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has signed a bill that protects employers, health care providers and others from being sued due to the coronavirus pandemic.The bill offers protection from COVID-19 lawsuits even if public...
Mar 24 2021 // Analysts at Assured Research delivered some surprises in a report on property/casualty insurance industry loss reserves Monday, finding that reserves are $28 billion redundant and predicting that some hard market pricing...