Can Insurance-Related Firms Compel Employees to Get COVID-19 Vaccination? December 28, 2020 By Bryan Johnson and Samuel Licker The long-awaited and highly anticipated COVID-19 vaccine is here. The first to arrive on the scene, from Pfizer-BioNTech, received emergency...
Insuring Cannabis Summit: Talking to Clients About Risk Starts with Education December 28, 2020 By Don Jergler Editor’s note: This is part of a series of articles based on panels and presentations during Insurance Journal’s 2020 Insuring...
Insurance Journal’s Top 10 Most Read Stories of 2020: West Region December 28, 2020 By Don Jergler Wildfires were the big story in the Western U.S. in 2020. And a big underlying theme in those stories is...
Drug Firms Win Court Bid Halting White House Rule Aimed at Lowering Drug Prices December 28, 2020 By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar A late-term maneuver by President Donald Trump to use lower drug prices paid overseas to limit some of Medicare’s own...
2 Months After Hurricanes, Recovery Elusive for Louisiana Residents December 27, 2020 By Rebecca Santana As southwest Louisiana recovers from the back-to-back hurricanes that hammered the region this year, signs of progress compete with lingering...
EU and UK Clinch Narrow Brexit Deal, Just Days Before Transition Period Expires December 24, 2020 By Guy Faulconbridge, Elizabeth Piper and John Chalmers Britain clinched a narrow Brexit trade deal with the European Union on Thursday, just seven days before it exits one...
Smaller Websites Nervous Over Giant Facebook’s Support for Liability Reform December 24, 2020 By Todd Shields and Ben Brody Facebook Inc. says it’s time to rethink the legal immunity that protects it from lawsuits over what users post online,...
Numerous Abuse Lawsuits Filed in Arizona Against Boy Scout Councils December 23, 2020 By Jacques Billeaud Eight lawsuits filed this week allege that Boy Scout leaders in Arizona had sexually abused children dating back decades, signaling...
Seattle Scaling Back Bridge Earthquake Retrofit Work December 23, 2020 The Seattle Department of Transportation now says reinforcing 16 bridges to better withstand eartquakes would cost hundreds of millions of...
California Sues Companies to Recover Costs for Lead Pollution Cleanup December 23, 2020 A lawsuit has been filed against multiple companies connected to a now-closed battery recycling plant years after California regulators pledged...