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#1 Next Insurance Offering Allows Agents to Customize Small Business Quotes
Sep 22 2023 // Digital small business insurer Next Insurance announced a new offering it says will enable agents to fully customize coverage quotes to better meet the needs of their small business clients. Next’s Coverage Builder...
#2 Texas Manufactured Homes Company Faces Lawsuit for Alleged Racial Harassment in the Workplace
Sep 21 2023 // A Texas manufactured homes company was sued for subjecting an employee to a hostile work environment after learning learning of his multiracial family, according to a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
#3 RT Specialty Expands RT Connector for Small Commercial Market
Sep 28 2023 // RT Specialty, the wholesale distribution division of Ryan Specialty (NYSE: RYAN), a leading international specialty insurance firm, announced its continued expansion of RT Connector, which provides digital solutions for...
#4 Property Leads Q1 Commercial Insurance Price Increases: WTW CLIPS
Jun 14 2023 // Commercial property insurance, with double-digit first quarter price increases, led other lines of businesses tracked by WTW’s Commercial Lines Pricing Survey (CLIPS). CLIPS found the aggregate price change for U.S....
#5 EEOC Warns Employers to Check AI Workplace Monitoring Tools for Bias
May 26 2023 // The head of the U.S. agency charged with enforcing civil rights in the workplace says artificial intelligence-driven “bossware” tools that closely track the whereabouts, keystrokes and productivity of workers...
#6 Some Workplace Shootings May Not be Compensable, Florida Appeals Court Says
Aug 17 2023 // Workplace shootings, more common than ever now, may happen in the course and scope of employment. But do they have to be work-related to make the victims eligible for workers’ compensation benefits? That’s the...
#7 Workers’ Compensation Undercuts Employer Liability Exclusion, U.S. Appeals Court Rules
Jul 11 2023 // Since workers’ compensation shields an employer from liability, an insurer may not be able to rely on an employer liability exclusion in a commercial general liability policy to avoid claims. That’s the...
#8 Commercial Property Premiums Up Over 20% to Start 2023: CIAB
May 18 2023 // Commercial property premiums increased more in the first quarter than they have in more than 20 years as the first three months of the year marked the 22nd straight quarter of overall premium increases, at 8.8%, according...
#9 Memorial Honors 1911 Factory Fire Deaths That Galvanized Push for Workplace Safety
Oct 13 2023 // If people really looked for history at the New York City building where the Triangle Shirtwaist factory once existed, they could find it. There are plaques pointing out that it was the site of a horrific fire in 1911 that...
#10 Commercial Property Loans Are So Unappealing Banks Trying to Dump Them
Aug 8 2023 // Banks seeking to sell commercial-property loans are encountering a dried-up market with few options for an easy exit. Lenders including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. have been trying to sell debt...
#11 Las Vegas Casino Mogul Fined $10M to End Fight Over Claims of Workplace Sexual Misconduct
Jul 31 2023 // Casino mogul Steve Wynn has ended a yearslong legal fight with Nevada gambling regulators that started with claims of workplace sexual misconduct, agreeing to pay a $10 million fine and cut ties to the industry he helped...
#12 Critics of Workplace Diversity Efforts Eye Civil War-Era Law
Sep 1 2023 // Several suits filed on behalf of White workers following the US Supreme Court’s decision outlawing affirmative action in higher education are banking on a Civil War-era statute guaranteeing equal rights to Black...
#13 Employer Hosting Golf Outing Not Liable for Drunk Driver, Pennsylvania High Court Says
Aug 24 2023 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has declined to extend the state’s liquor liability law to social hosts. The high court cited a half-century of precedent in upholding lower courts in a case where an employer hosting a...
#14 Getting Ahead of Submission Overload: The Need for Systematic Prioritization in Commercial Lines Underwriting
Jul 28 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Insurance Quantified. “I Know, You Don’t Have Time to Read This. You’re Drowning in Submissions.” I’ve had the opportunity to spend part of my career...
#15 New Jersey Casino Workers Light Up in State House to Protest Smoking in Workplace
Dec 18 2023 // With prospects for a smoking ban in Atlantic City`s casinos looking hazier than ever, workers who want smoking banned took matters into their own hands, lips and lungs Thursday. Members of the United Auto Workers union...
#16 ChatGPT Fever Spreads to US Workplace, Sounding Alarm for Some
Aug 14 2023 // Many workers across the U.S. are turning to ChatGPT to help with basic tasks, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found, despite fears that have led employers such as Microsoft and Google to curb its use. Companies worldwide are...
#17 Why Labor Unions Are Gaining Leverage in Contract Talks With Big Employers
Jul 10 2023 // U.S. union workers are finding more solid footing during contract negotiations with employers as a tight labor market allows employees to flex more bargaining power. Airline pilots, railroad employees, dockworkers, and...
#18 Nationwide E&S Exits Commercial Auto Effective July 15
Jun 29 2023 // Nationwide E&S will stop writing wholesale-driven contract binding commercial auto new business, including primary brokerage auto effective July 15, according to an announcement released to Nationwide brokers this week...
#19 Kellogg’s ‘Woke’ Workplace Diversity Programs Are Illegal, Group Claims
Aug 10 2023 // A conservative legal group on Wednesday urged a U.S. anti-discrimination agency to investigate Kellogg over workplace diversity policies that it says are unlawful, and accused the cereal maker of sexualizing its...
#20 Commercial Auto Up Against Persistent Headwinds to Underwriting Profit
Oct 4 2023 // Underwriting losses in U.S. commercial auto have returned to pre-pandemic levels and rate increases have not been enough to keep up with severity trends. “The liability component has been more problematic than the...
