Monthly Archives: <span>October 2021</span>

California Workers’ Comp Hospital Stays Decline as COVID Affects Quantity and Types of Admissions

The latest update to California Workers’ Compensation Institute research on California workers’ compensation inpatient hospital stays shows the number of injured worker hospitalizations fell 17.2% in 2020, bringing the total decline since 2010 to 47.2%. Using hospital discharge data from …

Utah Insurance Department Distributes $25M to Arches Claimants

Utah Insurance Commissioner Jon Pike, acting as liquidator of Arches Mutual Insurance Co. through his special deputy liquidator Stillman Consulting Services LLC, announced on Friday that checks are being sent to Arches’ medical providers for 100% of their approved claim …

Report Details Allegations of Sexual Assault by Former Chicago Blackhawks Assistant

For three weeks in 2010, they did nothing. That’s how long it took for the leadership of the Chicago Blackhawks to act on allegations that an assistant coach sexually assaulted a player. Three weeks. Three weeks that _ more than …

Purchase of Insurance Does Not Waive Sovereign Immunity, Georgia Court Finds

The city of Alpharetta, Georgia, did not waive its sovereign immunity when it obtained an insurance policy, an appeals court said Thursday, two years after a man drowned in a city pool. In Sharma vs. City of Alpharetta, the state …

Alera Group Acquired Blue Communications in California

Alera Group acquired Blue Communications in Hollywood, Calif. Blue Communications is a human resources consulting and communications agency specializing in internal communications, well-being program development, diversity, inclusion and belonging strategy, management of development and implementation, as well as organizational change. …

FDA Finalizes Stronger Safety Warnings on Breast Implants

U.S. health regulators this week finalized stronger warnings for breast implants, including a new requirement that people receive detailed information about their potential risks and complications before getting them. The Food and Drug Administration announced the new regulations mainly aimed …

Florida’s Boyd Promises New Roof Cost and Solicitation Bills

Despite recent signals that another round of significant property insurance reforms may be put on the back burner in the upcoming Florida legislative session, a leading committee chair said this week that more needs to be done. Sen. Jim Boyd, …

Fire Destroys US Auto Auction Building in New Jersey, No Injuries Reported

Officials on Wednesday were investigating the cause of a fire that destroyed a large building that housed several businesses in southern New Jersey. Flames broke out Tuesday night and quickly spread throughout the US Auto Auction building. Small explosions could …

People Moves: Admiral Names Smyrl President; Hartford’s Schultz Moves to Zurich Life Sciences; Roth Heads AXA XL Cyber Claims; Hippo Adds Hiscox’s Hanson

Smyrl Succeeds Fletcher a President of Admiral Insurance W.R. Berkley Corp. as appointed Daniel Smyrl as president of excess and surplus lines insurer Admiral Insurance Group. He succeeds Curtis E. Fletcher, who has been named chairman of Admiral. Smyrl joined …

Outages Persist After Nor’easter Batters New England

Utility crews worked Thursday to restore power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in New England after a nor’easter battered the coast with hurricane-force wind gusts. More than 300,000 customers lacked service Thursday morning, the Massachusetts Emergency Management …