April 20, 2020
A third of the state lost power because of a freak snowstorm and a powerful windstorm as residents were locked down because of the pandemic. Rivers swelled because of heavy rain. Then an explosion ripped through a paper mill. It …
April 20, 2020
Miniter Group has hired Kelly Adams as the vice president of Operations and Tracking. Adams will be responsible for the overall management of Miniter’s Borrower-Centric insurance tracking operations in this role. Before joining Miniter Group, Adams had 20 years of …
April 20, 2020
One of the largest consumer credit reporting agencies in the country has agreed to pay $18.2 million and undertake significant injunctive relief following a massive data breach in 2017 that compromised the personal information of nearly three million Massachusetts residents, …
April 20, 2020
Businesses that have suspended operations due to COVID-19 but continue to pay employees who are at home but not working will not have to include the payroll paid to these employees in the calculation of their workers’ compensation premium. The …
April 20, 2020
Lloyd’s of London is collating details of insurers’ business interruption coverage for the Prudential Regulation Authority and is in discussions about a government backstop to cover future pandemics, it said in a letter seen by Reuters. It asked its members …
April 20, 2020
Amazon will keep its six warehouses in France closed until at least April 22 after a stand-off with unions over sanitary conditions amid the coronavirus outbreak, it said on Sunday. The Seattle-based e-commerce giant has been under scrutiny over its …
April 20, 2020
Notre Dame Cathedral stands crippled and alone, locked in a dangerous web of warped scaffolding one year after a cataclysmic fire gutted its interior, toppled its famous spire and horrified the world. Some of the 40,000 metal bars — erected …
April 20, 2020
CyberCube, the cyber analytics provider for the insurance industry, has released an updated version of Portfolio Manager, the cyber risk modeling platform. Portfolio Manager allows insurers to stress test re/insurance portfolios against a range of systemic cyber-related scenarios, including data …
April 20, 2020
Amit Tiwari, chief operating officer at Xceedance, the Boston-based insurance consulting, managed services, and insurtech company, explains the challenges of enabling business continuity plans in the face of a global pandemic and moving an international workforce of well over a …
April 20, 2020
President Donald Trump has approved a disaster declaration for Mississippi for strong storms that struck the state on Sunday, April 12, including several tornadoes. The storms swept through several states from Texas to Maryland on Sunday and Monday, killing at …