All the headlines from our Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 16 2020 // The frequency of hospital professional liability claims is holding steady, but the cost of those claims is expected to increase by 3% next year, according to an actuarial analysis by Aon and the American Society of Health...
Oct 16 2020 // Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai said Thursday the agency will move forward to set new rules to clarify the meaning of a key legal protection for social media companies.The announcement came as...
Oct 16 2020 // BRUSSELS – Who foots the bill if people in poor countries fall sick with unexpected side-effects from coronavirus vaccines? It’s not clear and that’s a big problem in the battle to beat COVID-19.The World...
Oct 15 2020 // Michigan’s Republican-led Legislature on Oct. 14 voted to keep intact longer-lasting unemployment benefits and other coronavirus-related orders issued by Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, while also striking a deal...
Oct 14 2020 // The Indiana Supreme Court has ruled that Allstate must pay $25,000 in uninsured motorist benefits to the estranged husband of a woman who died while riding as a passenger in a car crash after moving back in with her...
Oct 12 2020 // Munich Re Specialty Insurance has launched a lawyers professional liability (LPL) insurance product, an errors and omissions policy specially designed for mid-size law firms.The LPL policy provides up to $5 million in...
Oct 9 2020 // Independent specialty managing general agent Nexus has added a Brit Syndicate to its US roster of carriers, giving it the ability to now underwrite its miscellaneous professional liability product on an excess &...
Oct 8 2020 // A coalition of business advocacy and local government groups have renewed calls for reform to a New York law that has been on the books since the late 1800s.New York State Labor Law sections 240/241, known as the Scaffold...
Oct 8 2020 // The Federal Communications Commission has given no indication it will move quickly on an effort by President Donald Trump to narrow the ability of social media companies to remove objectionable content and require new...
Oct 8 2020 // AMS Professional Liability, a wholesale broker in the state of Florida, and Allsouth Professional Liability, a brokerage specializing in professional liability insurance in the southeastern United States, have been...
Oct 7 2020 // Specialty insurer AXIS Insurance has hired four experienced underwriters to its U.S. Management Liability team.Christina Segreti, Drew Kushnick, Matthew Holzinger and Sherry Alexakis have joined AXIS as senior underwriters...
Oct 7 2020 // The magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic as an economic loss events is unprecedented for companies and insurers alike and claims trends and risk exposures are likely to evolve in both the mid- and long-term as a result of...
Oct 5 2020 // Worldwide Facilities LLC, a national wholesale insurance broker, managing general agent and program underwriter, has acquired Hunt Jorgensen LLC, a managing general underwriter specializing in professional liability...
Oct 5 2020 // A court last week approved a settlement totaling $800 million from casino company MGM Resorts International and its insurers to more than 4,400 relatives and victims of the 2017 Las Vegas Strip shooting that was the...
Oct 5 2020 // In 2018, the Insurance Journal published an article titled “Lawnmower Injuries Remain Source of Serious Injury and High Costs.” A study cited in the article stated each day during the mowing season, about 30...
Oct 2 2020 // Boston Insurance Brokerage LLC (BIB) has promoted Casie Treen to vice president of Finance and Administration.Treen has been a member of the BIB team since 2011. She joined BIB as an intern while pursuing a degree in...
Oct 2 2020 // Before a U.S. federal judge on Thursday halted the work of a Trump administration law enforcement commission – saying it had violated public meetings laws – the panel had been warned about shutting out public...
Oct 1 2020 // Next Insurance has expanded its workers’ compensation offering into 24 additional states, including Arizona, Connecticut, South Carolina, Indiana and Virginia.The digital small business insurer said that the coverage...
Oct 1 2020 // The Vermont Department of Economic Development (DED) has hired Brittany Nevins as the new Captive Insurance Economic Development director. She replaces Ian Davis, Vermont’s former director of Financial...
Sep 30 2020 // Reinsurers and insurers for years have been worried about systemic risks – those uninsurable risks with the potential of surpassing the capital of the industry. The COVID-19 crisis has renewed attention on these risks,...