November 2, 2020
Transportation Workers’ Comp Market Detail: Midwestern Insurance Alliance (www.midwesterninsurance.com) writes workers compensation for most transportation type risks. All accounts on a guaranteed cost basis; all radius of operations considered (not limited to local hauling). Midwestern Insurance concentrates best in class …
November 2, 2020
Despite the economic challenges from the coronavirus pandemic, the workers’ compensation insurance market is likely to report strong profitability in 2020 thanks to savings from lower claims frequency due that are currently outpacing pandemic-related losses, according to Fitch Ratings. However, …
November 2, 2020
I’m not sure when I first wrote about this month’s coverage issue, though I’m sure it was at least 13 years ago and probably earlier. This is the time of year when auto collisions with deer begin to peak in …
November 2, 2020
Nearly one in four respondents (22%) out of more than 1,200 business leaders surveyed in 2020 Travelers’ Cyber Risk Index said their firm was the victim of a cyber event — the highest percentage since the annual survey began in …
November 2, 2020
The family of an armed man shot and killed by security guards in a suburban Las Vegas casino-resort last year is suing. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that the son of 53-year-old Shannon Howell filed a wrongful death lawsuit in …
November 2, 2020
A Snohomish County, Wash., woman faces two charges of making false or misleading statements to collect more than $67,000 in workers’ compensation benefits from the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries. Brenda Lynn Cavoretto was police chief of a …
November 2, 2020
Two Oregon wine grape growers have failed to convince a state judge their grapes would be marred by odors from a neighboring marijuana operation. Yamhill County Circuit Court Judge Cynthia Easterday ruled that Smera Vineyard and Maysara Winery haven’t met …
November 2, 2020
The law firm CaseyGerry has filed a lawsuit in San Diego Superior Court on behalf of the parents of Le’Sharia Bre’Aun Steele, a 28-year old flight attendant from Alabama who died in San Diego, Calif. after reportedly consuming a KushyPunch …
November 2, 2020
A Black man who said he was prohibited from buying gas by a white gas station attendant in Oregon has filed a $350,000 racial discrimination lawsuit against the station. Dominique DeWeese said in the lawsuit that he asked an attendant …
November 2, 2020
California’s insurance commissioner in late October pledged to step up efforts to protect the state’s residents from wildfires and address a pullback of private insurers from the state’s riskiest areas. Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara convened a “virtual investigatory hearing” to …