All the headlines from our Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 16 2020 // Property/casualty insurance for senior living facilities has taken a hit this year. The insurance market has been hardening for the last year or two, and the COVID-19 pandemic brought on a wave of new challenges that has...
Nov 13 2020 // The COVID-19 pandemic is creating varying levels of disruption for writers in the U.S. professional liability insurance market, with many expecting a sizable increase in claims, according to a new AM Best report.With its...
Nov 12 2020 // Houston International Insurance Group, Ltd., has expanded its management liability coverage offerings to include an excess public D&O (Directors and Officers) product. As part of this expansion, the company hired...
Nov 12 2020 // Frank Winston Crum Insurance (FWCI) has launched general liability and excess liability insurance programs in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee to coincide with its previously available worker’s...
Nov 12 2020 // QBE North America has appointed Dan Fortin as president and Todd Greeley as chief operating officer for Financial Lines.Both executives joined QBE NA from Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance. With the hires, QBE NA said...
Nov 5 2020 // Tesla recently made headlines with the beta launch of its Full Self-Driving system. That system comes with a disclaimer saying, “It may do the wrong thing at the worst time, so you must always keep your hands on the...
Nov 5 2020 // The U.S. property/casualty industry saw 13 new insurance company impairments in 2019, two more than in 2018, involving entities operating in a mix of lines of business and a variety of states, according to a new AM Best...
Nov 5 2020 // The Allstate Corp. reported a 26.7% increase in its third quarter net income, primarily due to higher auto insurance underwriting income and net realized capital gains.Allstate’s third quarter net income able to...
Nov 5 2020 // The outcome of the U.S. general election is not yet clear. What’s been obvious for months is that climate change was on the ballot, and the U.S. election matters for global climate action. And one thing is certain:...
Nov 4 2020 // Specialty insurer RLI Corp., based in Peoria, Ill., has promoted Blake A. Ahrens to vice president, Inland Marine, and Bob W. Hartje to vice president, Excess Liability.Ahrens previously served as assistant vice president,...
Nov 4 2020 // Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) announced the appointment of Luke Baker as the new regional head of Liability for Regional Unit London and Nordics.He will join AGCS, Allianz’s entity for large-scale...
Nov 2 2020 // Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies has expanded the list of states the company offers its architects and engineers professional liability product to include Colorado, Kansas, and Wisconsin. With these three...
Nov 2 2020 // The reform of Michigan’s auto insurance market, which went into effect on July 1, 2020, brought the promise of much-needed premium relief for Michigan drivers.An April 2019 study by the Insurance Research Council...
Oct 30 2020 // Integrated Specialty Coverages (ISC), a program administrator developing insurance products utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) technology and analytics, has launched its Investor Property Program designed to address...
Oct 30 2020 // Nexus Specialty has hired Katie Schneider as assistant vice president, Management & Professional Liability, in the group’s Chicago, Ill., office. The company also named William K. Fayette, senior underwriter,...
Oct 30 2020 // Big Tech’s decisions to block some posts and videos while letting other content viewed as inflammatory proliferate have drawn the ire of Republicans and Democrats alike, raising the prospect that a 24-year-old U.S....
Oct 29 2020 // BRUSSELS – A vaccine scheme co-led by the World Health Organization is setting up a compensation fund for people in poor nations who might suffer any side-effects from COVID-19 vaccines, aiming to allay fears that could...
Oct 29 2020 // Boston Insurance Brokerage (BIB) has announced an expansion of its specialty offerings to include Programs & Compliance. The new division at BIB will be led by Senior Vice President Christopher Fell.BIB has a history...
Oct 28 2020 // The chief executives of Twitter Inc., Facebook and Alphabet Inc. will tell U.S. lawmakers at a hearing on Wednesday that a federal law protecting internet companies is crucial to free expression on the internet, according...
Oct 27 2020 // CFC has launched a new product designed to address intellectual property (IP) infringement risks facing buyers undertaking a merger or acquisition. The product offers protection to buyers for IP infringement risks...