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July 26, 2022
 
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National

 

Auto Claimants Waiting Longer for Collision Repairs

Auto claimants are waiting longer for collision repairs -- 4.5 days longer this spring compared to the same period last year, according...
 

Insurtech Funding Levels Hold Steady in Q2 vs. Q1: CB Insights

Funding for the insurtech sector held steady in the second-quarter of 2022, coming in at roughly $2.4 billion, the same as the overall...
 

U.S. Sues Chicken Producers, Alleging They Conspired to Keep Wages Down

US poultry producers Cargill Inc., Sanderson Farms Inc. and Wayne Farms LLC agreed to pay $84.8 million restitution for conspiring to...
 

Tesla's Phantom Brake Problem Exposes Need for Human Audits of Machine-Read Data

"Slamming on the brakes" is often a blaming moment. Someone most likely was not paying attention to conditions, but is that always the...
 

Uber Admits Covering Up 2016 Hacking, Avoids Prosecution in U.S. Settlement

Uber Technologies Inc. on Friday accepted responsibility for covering up a 2016 data breach that affected 57 million passengers and...
 

Markets/Coverages: Openly's New Homeowners Carrier; Neptune Flood, SIAA Partnership; MiKargo247 Launches for Per-Load Freight

Openly Starts Openly Insurance Company, a Licensed Homeowners Insurance Carrier Openly announced the launch of the Openly Insurance...
 

Becoming Truly Digital

Becoming truly digital is going to be a long, arduous, zigzag, stop-and-go journey for all companies involved with insurance commerce...
 

How Amazon Thinks About Auto Insurance for Delivery Service Partners

Amazon runs an auto insurance program for its delivery service providers, but if those DSPs choose to buy their...
 
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East

 

Court Agrees With Insurer: Amazon Can Be Sued Under New Jersey Product Liability Law

Online marketplace Amazon can be sued under New Jersey product liability law for defective products sold by third-party sellers on its...
 

Job Service Settles With Massachusetts Over Data Breach, Written Security Plan Violation

A Rhode Island-based job placement service company will pay $230,000 in penalties under a data security settlement reached with...
 

New York Begins $30M Program to Help Municipalities Boost Cybersecurity Efforts

New York State is beginning a $30 million shared services program designed to assist counties with cybersecurity for government systems...
 
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Midwest

 

Wisconsin Insurance Premiums for Worker's Comp Decline

Wisconsin companies will pay 8.47% less in worker's compensation insurance rates starting Oct. 1, the Wisconsin Department of Workforce...
 

Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services Issues Cease and Desist Order Against Company

The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services issued a cease and desist order against Salvasen Health for allegedly acting...
 
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Southeast

 

Demotech Holds Off as Florida Divides on Planned Downgrades

Rating Firm Postpones Ratings for 17 Carriers After Backlash The property insurance community has divided into two camps after the...
 

Four Injured When Car Crashes Into Daytona Beach

Four people, including a 3-year-old child, were injured when a car crashed through an unoccupied toll booth and ended up in the Atlantic...
 

North Carolina Agency to Test Soil and Water at Fertilizer Plant Explosion Site

A North Carolina environmental agency has approved a plan to test the soil and groundwater for contamination at the site of a massive...
 

Florida Bar Files New Complaint on Strems Over Settlement and Fee Deal

The plaintiffs' lawyer that Florida insurers love to hate could see his two-year suspension completed this month. But new allegations by...
 
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South Central

 

Alex Jones' Defamation Trial Set to Begin in Texas

Jury selection was set for Monday in a trial that will determine for the first time how much Infowars host Alex Jones must pay Sandy Hook...
 

Texas School Mask Mandate Ban Upheld by Federal Appeals Court

Texas Governor Greg Abbott can maintain his ban on school mask mandates, a federal appeals court ruled. A three-judge panel of the 5th US...
 

U.S. Sues Chicken Producers, Alleging They Conspired to Keep Wages Down

US poultry producers Cargill Inc., Sanderson Farms Inc. and Wayne Farms LLC agreed to pay $84.8 million restitution for conspiring to...
 
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West

 

California Private Self-Insured Claim Frequency Hit 14-Year High in 2021

Workers' compensation claim frequency among California's private self-insured employers last year hit the highest level since 2007 as...
 

Alaska Experiencing Wildfires It's Never Seen Before

Alaska is burning this year in ways rarely or ever seen, from the largest wildfire in a typically mainly fireproof southwest region to a...
 

Firefighters Slow Growth of Massive California Blaze Near Yosemite

Firefighters have significantly slowed the spread of a huge wildfire burning in a forest near Yosemite National Park that burned 55 homes...
 
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International & Reinsurance

 

One-Quarter of Firms Operating at Lloyd's Reach 35% Target for Women Leaders

A quarter of firms operating at Lloyd's of London have reached the commercial insurance market's target for 35% of leaders to be women,...
 

Return of Coal as Alternative to Russian Gas Threatens European Firms' ESG Ratings

European companies turning to coal as an alternative to Russian gas face a hit to their environmental, social and governance ratings,...
 

Alpine Glaciers Decline at Record Rates Following Heatwaves

MORTERATSCH GLACIER, Switzerland - From the way 45-year-old Swiss glaciologist Andreas Linsbauer bounds over icy crevasses, you would...
 

Record Temperatures, Wildfires Wreak Havoc on Europe's Wineries and Vineyards

In Portugal's Douro Valley on July 7, a wildfire burned close to Oscar Quevedo's Quinta da Alegria vineyard. By the middle of the night,...
 

Japanese Insurers Sell Heatstroke Coverage as Temperatures Soar to Record Levels

As temperatures soar to unprecedented levels from Europe to Asia this summer, some Japanese insurance companies have begun selling...
 

People Moves: Howden RE Hires Former Carpenter Exec Thienel to Launch German Unit; MGA Alta Signa Appoints Kisters as Professional Indemnity Manager, Netherlands

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at the broker Howden RE and the MGA Alta Signa Europe. A summary of these...
 
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Three Visions for Empowering Independent Agents

During the pandemic, Cake & Arrow conducted qualitative research with hundreds of gig workers and small business owners to...
 
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Around the World: Insurance, Climate Change, Disclosures, and Risk

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4 Common Builders Risk Insurance Policy Options

The construction industry is hotter than ever, so there's never been a better time to learn builders risk insurance. In this...
 
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