Latest Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Montana Governor Signs Virus Lawsuit Liability Shield
Feb 12 2021 // Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a bill this week intended to protect businesses and health care providers from coronavirus-related lawsuits. Gianforte said the new law will allow businesses to safely open during the...
SafeHerb Develops ‘Seed to Sale’ Coverage for Cannabis, Hemp Business
Feb 11 2021 // A new commercial insurance product from SafeHerb, a division of Specialty Program Group, provides a full suite of insurance protection for the cannabis and hemp industries. SafeHerb’s Cannabis & Hemp Insurance...
CFC Enhances E&O Policy for Design, Construction Contractors
Feb 10 2021 // CFC has upgraded its errors and omissions policy for US-based design and construction contractors to include costs for steps taken by the contractor to mitigate against a potential claim where work was not rectified, and...
Federal Judge Sides with Chubb in Denial of Target’s Data Breach Bank Claims
Feb 10 2021 // Target Corp. has been denied its $138 million insurance claim against ACE (now Chubb) Insurance companies stemming from a 2013 data breach. A federal judge in Minnesota ruled the retailer had failed to prove that its...
Alabama Lawmakers Move Forward with COVID Liability Protections
Feb 8 2021 // Alabama lawmakers on Thursday fast-tracked a pair of pandemic bills – one to exempt coronavirus relief payments from state income tax and another to shield businesses, health care providers and others from...
Berkley Service Professionals Names Rea as Executive Vice President
Feb 8 2021 // Berkley Service Professionals, a division of Berkley company Berkley Alliance Managers, has named Tom Rea as executive vice president. Rea is a licensed insurance agent and surplus lines broker in the state of...
Senators Offer Bill to Limit Liability Shield for Social Media Firms
Feb 8 2021 // Three Democratic U.S. senators introduced a bill that would limit Section 230, a law that shields online companies from liability over content posted by users, and make the companies more accountable when posts result in...
McGriff Launches On-Demand Excess Liability Product for Freight Brokers
Feb 8 2021 // McGriff has launched a new product that gives freight brokers the ability to purchase excess auto liability coverage online. TripExcess is a per-shipment excess liability product that will allow shippers, 3PL/brokers and...
COVID-19 and Employment Practices Litigation
Feb 8 2021 // As soon as the first community was shut down to slow the spread of the coronavirus or the first announcement of a safer at home order by a governor, some of us saw the storm of suits coming related to the loss of business...
Declarations
Feb 8 2021 // Insurance Fraud Costs “Insurance fraud is not a victimless crime. When false claims are made and money is stolen from insurance companies, it forces all of our insurance rates to increase and costs each of us...
Surfacing Emerging Risks From Covid, Cyber, Civil Unrest, Mergers, and More…
Feb 8 2021 // Insurance Journal examined industries experiencing changes and challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, societal unrest and other market forces experienced in 2020. Here are 10 industry sectors that could see new and...
2021: The Year of Insurance Agency E&O Lawsuits
Feb 8 2021 // Insurance agents and brokers should prepare for a big agency errors and omissions (E&O) litigation wave to crash their shores in 2021. Agency E&O claims are a lagging indicator, meaning plaintiffs typically only go...
Indiana Lawmakers Fast-Track COVID-19 Lawsuit Shield
Feb 7 2021 // Indiana legislators are poised to finalize a fast-tracked proposal that will give a broad shield protecting businesses and others from lawsuits by people blaming them for contracting COVID-19. The proposal is a top...
Judge Dismisses Walmart Lawsuit Over Pharmacy Liability in Opioid Crisis
Feb 5 2021 // A federal judge has dismissed Walmart Inc’s lawsuit seeking to preemptively block the U.S. government from blaming the world’s largest retailer for its alleged role in fueling the nation’s opioid...
Cannabis Broker Spotlight: Kennedy with Purple Risk Preaches Education, Specialization
Feb 4 2021 // Editor’s note: This part of a series of profiles on cannabis brokers, in which Insurance Journal explores why and how these folks got into the business, the ups and downs of insuring cannabis, as well as a few tips...
Texas Governor Calls for COVID-19 Liability Protections for Businesses
Feb 4 2021 // In his State of the State address on Feb. 2, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott advocated liability protections for businesses faced with lawsuits related to the coronavirus pandemic. In his prepared remarks, Abbott said business...
Montana House Advances Virus Liability Shield Bill
Feb 3 2021 // Montana House lawmakers voted this week to advance a bill that would protect businesses and health care providers from coronavirus-related lawsuits, a step the Republican governor said was necessary to remove a statewide...
North Carolina Tops 1K Captive Insurers in 7 Years
Feb 2 2021 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance has approved or licensed more than 1,000 risk-bearing captive entities (including conditional licenses and approvals) since its captive program inception in 2013 through year-end...
Colorado Law on Police Officer Liability Being Tested by Notorious Video Incident
Feb 1 2021 // A new Colorado law allowing individual police officers to be sued will soon get a big test. Four Black girls who were mistakenly detained by Colorado police at gunpoint over a suspected stolen car filed a civil lawsuit...
Insurance Déjà Vu: Vaccines, AI, Litigation, Recession Made Headlines 10 Years Ago
Feb 1 2021 // How much have things changed for the insurance industry in the past decade? Judging by feature headlines from Insurance Journal published in February 2011, many of the issues and themes talked about then are again, or...
