Best Read Liability Headlines
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#1 As Complaints Against Pharmacists Rise So Does the Cost to Defend Them
Sep 22 2023 // The cost to defend complaints against pharmacists to their State Board has increased more than 100% in the last decade, according to a newly released claim report published by Healthcare Providers Service Organization...
#2 Markets/Coverages: AmTrust Introduces Admitted Lawyers Professional Liability
Sep 21 2023 // Global specialty P/C insurer AmTrust Financial Services introduced a new admitted lawyers professional liability policy from AmTrust PRO for mid-sized law firms. “In today’s competitive and complex legal...
#3 Viewpoint: A New Risk Landscape Emerges for Global Maritime Industry
Sep 21 2023 // Executive Summary: The International Group of P&I Clubs offers a unique lens into the intricate web of maritime risk that influences both the insurance sector and the maritime industry globally. From this perspective,...
#4 For the Fifth Straight Year, Surplus Lines Sees Double-Digit Growth: AM Best
Sep 14 2023 // Total U.S. surplus lines direct premiums written (DPW) rose by 19.2% to reach a record $98.5 billion in 2022, marking a five-year streak of double-digit growth rate increase, according to a new AM Bestreport. The new...
#5 Product Liability Cases on the Rise: Lex Machina
Sep 19 2023 // Product liability cases are increasing, according to Lex Machina’s annual Product Liability Litigation Report, with 5,826 such cases in federal courts in 2022. The data analyzed by Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company,...
#6 South Carolina Bars, Eateries Closing Down for Lack of Affordable Liability Coverage
Sep 18 2023 // Wanted in South Carolina: $1 million in liquor liability coverage at an affordable premium to prevent closure of establishment. That’s the type of advertisement one can imagine bars and bistros across the Palmetto...
#7 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...
#8 Viewpoint: Biometric Litigation Is Significant Emerging Risk for Insurers
Sep 28 2023 // Executive Summary: Biometric litigation is a significant emerging risk that insurers must now take into consideration, says Jim Blinn, vice president, Client Solutions, Zywave. States are increasingly passing biometric...
#9 Mom Not Liable in Son’s Crash of Family Car, Florida Supreme Court Says
Nov 17 2023 // Florida families and their auto insurers can rest a little easier after the state Supreme Court decided Thursday that a mom cannot be held vicariously liable for an accident caused by her son who had borrowed the family...
#10 New York Law Bars Subrogation by Lloyd’s in LaGuardia Project, Appeals Court Affirms
Dec 13 2023 // A federal appeals court has declared that New York law prevents Lloyd’s from recovering some loss payments from Zurich American because Zurich’s insured was also an insured of Lloyd’s in a case involving...
#11 Insurer Berkley Wants Judge in Virginia to Toss $5.8M Jury Verdict Over Mold Claim
Aug 23 2023 // Berkley Assurance Co. is asking a federal judge in Virginia to throw out a $5.8 million jury verdict against it in a case where the insurer maintains a construction firm failed to notify it of its mold claim in a timely...
#12 Consumer Reports: On Average, Electric Vehicles Less Reliable Than Gas Vehicles
Nov 30 2023 // Electric vehicles have proved far less reliable, on average, than gasoline-powered cars, trucks and SUVs, according to the latest survey by Consumer Reports, which found that EVs from the 2021 through 2023 model years...
#13 Maryland’s Workers’ Compensation Bars Non-Dependent Child’s Wrongful Death Claim
Dec 12 2023 // A non-dependent adult child whose father died on the job does not have a right to bring a wrongful death claim against her late father’s employer, the Maryland Appellate Court has ruled. The appeals court affirmed a...
#14 Travelers Wins CGL v. E&O Battle in Insurance Agency Defamation Case
Dec 8 2023 // Travelers Casualty Insurance Co. did not owe a duty to defend or indemnify its insured, CBIZ Borden-Perlman Insurance Agency, Inc., in a tort action in which Republic, as another insurer of B-P, bore the litigation and...
#15 Hotel, Motel Markets ‘Dropping Like Flies’ As Outlook Remains Challenging
Oct 2 2023 // The hospitality industry has entered a new chapter. For those who weathered the recent near collapse of the sector, the American Hotel & Lodging Association entered 2023 with optimism that hotel room demand would...
#16 Trucking in Transition: Sector Faces Decline in Demand, Rising Costs and Changing Insurance Markets
Nov 6 2023 // The transportation market is experiencing lower freight rates and excess capacity as fewer loads are shipped with demand for goods down from its pandemic-era peak. The trucking sector in particular is encountering...
#17 The Next Chapter: Employment Practices Liability
Nov 20 2023 // Employment Practices Liability (EPL) insurance has been available since the late 1980s. But it was not until September 1991 when the world witnessed the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court hearings and Anita Hill’s...
#18 The Battle Over J&J’s Bankruptcy Plan to End Talc Lawsuits
Jul 8 2024 // Eron Evans died in 2016 at 41 of ovarian cancer, leaving behind two daughters. Her grieving mother, Darlene, blames Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder – and she’s pursuing a lawsuit her daughter started a...
#19 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...
#20 As Trial Opens, FTX’s Bankman-Fried Battles Excess Insurer Over D&O Coverage
Oct 4 2023 // Just two days before his criminal trial started this week in federal court in New York, FTX Trading founder Sam Bankman-Fried filed suit in federal court in California against his excess insurance company seeking payment...
