Insurance Journal
 
 

Today's Headlines

 
March 18, 2022
 
Today's Headline Sponsor: Risk Placement Services
 
 
 
adv
 
Hackers Gonna Hack
 
Be prepared with insights from the Cyber Market Outlook.
 
Learn More
 
Risk Placement Services
 
 
 
 

National

 

Western Companies Wrestle With Russia 'Half-Exits'

Western companies that maintain a presence in Russia to provide essential goods such as food and medicines are trying to strike a balance...
 

Ransomware Hackers Used AI Images, Microsoft Flaw in Campaign

A group of ransomware hackers used a variety of techniques to try breaching hundreds of companies last year, exploiting a vulnerability...
 

Zuckerberg Deposition Blocked by Judge in D.C. Privacy Case

A request to depose Mark Zuckerberg as part of Washington, D.C.'s data-privacy lawsuit against Facebook drew a blistering denial from the...
 

Fox News Appeals Defamation Ruling Over Election Claims, Countersues Smartmatic

Fox News on Thursday appealed a judge's decision to let voting systems company Smartmatic pursue a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit...
 

RWI Underwriters Denying, Tightening Coverage Terms in Russia, Ukraine Region

Broker CAC Specialty said the representations and warranties insurance (RWI) market has tightened significantly in Russia, Ukraine, and...
 

Moody's ESG Notes 'Death and Destruction' from Climate Change

A new report from Moody's ESG Solutions drives home the point that climate change is here and now, and it is already causing death and...
 

Farm & Ranch Market: Evolving to Mitigate the Risks of Today

While the farm and ranch insurance space faces different risks than other property lines, many challenges of insuring those risks are often...
 
More National News »
 
 
 
adv
 
Five Step Plan to Insurance Learning
 
We developed a five step plan to move your insurance learning adventure forward. All without spending days in the classroom, or reading page after page.
 
Get the Plan
 
Academy of Insurance
 
 
 
 

East

 

New Jersey High Court Says Public Has Right to See Internal Report on Police Director

New Jersey's Supreme Court has ruled the public has a right to see the internal affairs report from the case of the city of Elizabeth's...
 

Massachusetts Governor Wants to Expand Mental Health Services, Lower Drug Costs

Gov. Charlie Baker unveiled a bill Tuesday that he said would help expand access to primary care and mental health services and help...
 

New York Enacts Expanded Anti-Harassment Workplace Laws

New York expanded workplace harassment protection for all public employees and banned the release of anyone's employment records in...
 

Maine Farmers Seek $100M Plan to Tackle PFAS Contamination

Maine farmers and the state's agriculture commissioner have testified in favor of a proposal that would create a $100 million fund to...
 
More East News »
 
 
 
Advertisement
 
adv
 
Strategies to Modernize the Customer Experience in Insurance
 
See how Nationwide used Salesforce tech to centralize ownership of the customer
lifecycle for an extraordinarily seamless experience across departments.
 
Webinar Case Study
 
Salesforce
 
 
 

Midwest

 

No Changes to Michigan Auto Insurance Law This Term

Bills intended to fix a Michigan law that slashed auto insurance payments for crash survivors' post-acute care are dead for the term, a...
 

Midwest Chicken, Turkey Farmers Struggle to Keep Birds Safe From Bird Flu

Nearly 7 million chickens and turkeys in 13 states have been killed this year due to avian influenza, prompting officials and farmers to...
 

$2.4 Million to be Paid to Minnesota Man Shot in Eye During Floyd Protests

A Minneapolis man who lost an eye when he was hit by a projectile fired by police during protests that followed George Floyd's killing...
 
More Midwest News »
 
 
 
adv
 
OSHA-NIOSH Safety & Health Handbook
 
With the OSHA-NIOSH Small Business Safety and Health Webinar, business owners have access to self-inspection checklists to support safe practices.
 
Access Here
 
AmTrust Financial
 
 
 
 

Southeast

 

Georgia Insurance Commissioner Urges Insurers to Divest Their Russian Assets

The Georgia insurance commissioner has joined his California counterpart in calling on insurers to divest their Russian business...
 

Two North Carolina Insurance Agents Charged with Fraud

Two North Carolina insurance agents have been accused of submitting false insurance claims to collect more than $30,000, authorities...
 

Florida Bridgetender Arrested After Woman Fell to Her Death from Drawbridge

The operator of a drawbridge where a woman fell to her death last month was arrested Thursday, five weeks after the incident, according...
 

NSI Acquires Florida-based HoneyQuote.com

NSI Insurance Group, one of the largest privately owned brokerage firms, announced it has acquired Florida-based HoneyQuote.com, a...
 

DOJ Settles with Parkland Shooting Victims' Families for $128 Million

The U.S. government has agreed to pay almost $128 million to the families of the victims killed in the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory...
 

6th Circuit: Granite State's Hefty Penalty on Employer's Audit Non-Compliance Will Stand

A workers' compensation insurance company's hefty penalty against its non-compliant insured will likely stand, after a federal appeals...
 
More Southeast News »
 
 
 
adv
 
The 5 Keys to Agency Growth
 
Want to experience real growth? You might need to reconsider where you are focusing your attention.
Find out what other agency owners have done right...
 
Watch the Webinar
 
Smart Choice
 
 
 
 

South Central

 

8th Circuit: Arkansas Law Allows Malpractice Action to Proceed Before Underlying Suit is Resolved

Legal malpractice claims usually aren't filed until after somebody loses a lawsuit. But what happens when the underlying dispute hasn't...
 

Court: Louisiana Port Owes Grain Terminal Owners $124.5 million

A Louisiana port owes $124.5 million to owners of a $50 million-plus grain export terminal because the port failed to get federal permits...
 

$75 Million For Louisiana Residents Whose Homes Were Built on Landfill

A group of New Orleans residents whose homes were built on a toxic landfill decades ago have won a $75 million court judgement against...
 
More South Central News »
 
 

Insurance Jobs

 

Excess Lines Underwriter - WH Greene & Associates Inc - East Aurora, NY

 

Director, Underwriting Operations - InsuraMatch - Travelers - Wall Township, NJ or Orlando, FL or Boston, MA

 

Content Marketing Manager - Vertafore - Denver, CO

 

Fellow, Insurance - R Street Institute - Remote

 

Business Systems Director - Security First - Ormond Beach, FL

 
 
 

West

 

Jury in California Awards $85M in Death of Man Following Arrest

A jury has awarded $85 million in the death of a man who was restrained by San Diego County sheriff's deputies in 2015. The federal jury...
 

Actuaries: Climate Change, WUI Building Led to Worsening Wildfires in U.S. and California

Increasingly large and dangerous wildfires are being driven by the effects of climate change and more building in the wildland-urban...
 

ALKEME Acquires VPIS Financial Services in California

ALKEME acquired VPIS Financial Services in Ladera Ranch, California. VPIS is a financial services firm that specializes in wealth...
 

California State Fund to Return $55M to Businesses

California's State Compensation Insurance Fund on Thursday announced plans to distribute a roughly $55 million dividend to its qualifying...
 
More West News »
 
 

International & Reinsurance

 

Aircraft Insurers Brace for Barrage of Russia Claims in Possibly Biggest Aviation Loss

Aircraft-leasing firms working to retrieve planes from Russia are set to collide with an aviation-insurance industry bracing for an...
 

Ping An Insurance Profit Falls 29%

Ping An Insurance Group Co of China Ltd., the country's largest insurer, on Friday reported its biggest annual profit fall since 2008 as...
 

Swiss Re to Reduce Cover for Oil, Gas Operations

Swiss Re, the world's second biggest reinsurer, said it would increase the number of oil and gas producers for which it refuses cover,...
 

India's Accidental Missile Launch Endangered Dozens of Passenger Jets

A missile that was accidentally launched out of India last week fired into the flight path of dozens of commercial jets flying in the...
 

China Vows to Roll Out Market-Friendly Policies, Boosting Battered Shares

Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, China's economic tsar, urged the roll-out of market-friendly policies to support the economy and caution in...
 

Mosaic Creates Cyber Underwriting Hub in Bermuda

Mosaic Insurance is building a cyber-security underwriting unit in Bermuda, to align its global business strategy around the fast-growing...
 

Miller Launches Online Platform for High-Net-Worth Clients

Miller, the London-based independent specialist re/insurance broker, announced the launch of its online Private Clients platform,...
 

People Moves: Swiss Re Names Gonzalez as CEO Reinsurance China, McGrath Becomes Regional CEO for Corporate Solutions in N. America

Swiss Re announced that Ivan Gonzalez has been appointed CEO Reinsurance China and China country president with effect from July 1, 2022....
 
More International & Reinsurance News »
 
 
 
 
 
More Sponsor Content »
 
Submit your article. Find out how. »
 
 

Insurance Journal Blogs and Columns

 

A Personal Claim Story - Part 1

I've been thinking about writing this and kind of going back and forth about how to do it or whether to do it. Since I can't be...
 
More Blogs »
 
 

Research and Webinars

 
research

Innovative Strategies & Processes to Personalize Customer Experience

Hear from Nationwide and Salesforce about innovative strategies and processes to personalize the customer experience. Owning...
 
research

Worried about the insurance producer talent gap?

Wasting time on repetitive producer management tasks is limiting your ability to grow quickly. Read this whitepaper from...
 
research

4 Agents Share Success Moving Out of Their Comfort Zones

Independent agents and dedicated agents looking to transition to an independent career have a lot to contemplate when...
 
research

The 5 Critical Things You Need to Know about Growing Your Agency

Want to experience real growth at your agency? You might need to reconsider where you are focusing your attention. Some agents...
 
research

Beyond Burnout: Redefining Benefits for a New Era of Work

In a new report, Beyond Burnout—Redefining a New Era in the Work Place, Cake & Arrow gets to the heart of how people's...
 
More research and webinars »
 
 

Insurance Journal TV

 
adv

EP. 44: Legal Expert Warning Obscure Law Could Cause Problems if Cannabis is Legalized

If Congress ever gets around to legalizing cannabis, the process of revoking federal...
 
adv

EP. 33: War in Ukraine Renews Questions Around Likelihood, Insurability of Cyber War

Since Russia launched a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine on February 24, questions have...
 
Watch more videos at InsuranceJournal.tv »
 
 
 
Contact us | Subscribe | Send to a Friend
 
This email was sent to newsletter@newslettercollector.com.
 
Don't want this anymore? Update your subscription or unsubscribe from all lists.
 
Insurance Journal
3570 Camino del Rio North, Suite 100
San Diego, CA 92108
(800) 897-9965
Insurance Journal | Claims Journal | MyNewMarkets | Academy Of Insurance | Carrier Management