All the headlines from our Retail Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 5 2017 // Executives of retail and wholesale property/casualty brokers, who have heard predictions about disintermediation for years, are not worried about the latest wrinkle in the stories of their demise—the rise of insurtech...
May 16 2017 // Two former Wal-Mart Stores Inc. employees have filed a lawsuit accusing the retailer of treating thousands of pregnant workers as “second-class citizens” by rejecting their requests to limit heavy lifting,...
May 2 2017 // Baton Rouge, La.-based Retailers Casualty Insurance Co., a workers’ comp insurer managed by Summit, has declared a $1.7 million policyholder dividend for the 2015 policy year. Retailers Casualty policies are...
Mar 6 2017 // Workers’ compensation liability is one of the main commercial lines in the U.S. property/casualty market. In order to manage this loss exposure, employers have two choices: they can either buy market insurance or...
Feb 6 2017 // A Massachusetts appeals court used a recent case to warn auto insurers about the importance of taking retail book value into consideration early in the settlement process.While the court ruled in favor of defendant...
Jan 20 2017 // A Massachusetts appeals court used a recent case to warn auto insurers that it is important to take retail book value into consideration early in the settlement process.While the court ruled in favor of defendant...
Jan 17 2017 // Officials in Winston-Salem, N.C., say a kerosene and gasoline mix-up at a convenience store led to two fires, both at houses.The Winston-Salem Journal reports Winston-Salem Fire Department Division Chief Sandy Shepherd...
Jan 13 2017 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has been ordered by a federal judge to pay $16.08 million to a former New Hampshire pharmacist in a gender bias case, but the amount is only about half what a jury awarded and may fall substantially...
Dec 22 2016 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will pay a former employee $75,000 to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit filed over the company’s alleged actions in regard to an employee at a store Hodgkins, Ill.The lawsuit...
Dec 9 2016 // The Los Angeles city attorney’s office is suing four retailers for allegedly duping shoppers into believing they got bigger discounts than they actually did.The Los Angeles Times reported that the lawsuit alleging...
Dec 5 2016 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of discriminating against gay workers by failing to offer health insurance benefits to their spouses.The settlement covers employees...
Oct 13 2016 // After a notable 50-year insurance career that has included starting and leading two highly successful insurance brokers, 79-year-old Patrick Ryan didn’t mince words when asked if he will ever retire:“No.”...
Sep 30 2016 // Police are looking for an employee of a Massachusetts Wal-Mart they say set three fires inside the store, forcing the disposal of all the food on the sales floor.Police say they identified the suspect through security...
Sep 22 2016 // An Arkansas judge has ruled Wal-Mart Stores Inc. investors may bring fraud claims against the retailer as a group, clearing a hurdle in a lawsuit over bribes it allegedly paid to help open new stores in Mexico.The ruling...
Sep 6 2016 // Rebuilding Cyber Insurance in the Wake of P.F. Chang’s vs Chubb Ltd.If the cyber insurance landscape seems like a confusing mess, you are not alone. In fact, the recent case of P.F. Changs v. Federal Insurance Co....
Aug 19 2016 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will pay a former, long-term employee at a Wal-Mart location in Illinois, $90,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Aug 3 2016 // Witnesses say a dog was at the wheel of a car that slowly crashed into a West Virginia Wal-Mart. Shoppers told WSAZ-TV that two dogs were in the car – one in the driver’s seat and one in the passenger’s seat...
Jul 25 2016 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. executives and directors persuaded a federal appeals court on Friday to reject shareholder claims that they permitted and then covered up pervasive bribery by officials at the world’s largest...
Jul 22 2016 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is asking suppliers to remove formaldehyde, triclosan and six other substances from their products, part of an effort to eliminate controversial chemicals from household goods.The chemicals on the list...
Apr 21 2016 // Cyber-thieves see new credit card chip technology being adopted by U.S. retailers closing a lucrative window of opportunity to steal your data. So they want to move fast.“We’ve actually seen a number of...