Access to affordable healthcare for all, ensuring greater diversity in the insurance industry, and finding more creative solutions to deal with climate change risk were the priorities laid out by California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Thursday. Lara was discussing …
Insurer Axis Capital Holdings Ltd. announced new a policy restricting insurance and investments in coal, tar sands oil, and Arctic oil and gas. Axis committed to stop insuring any company developing coal infrastructure and phase out all coal business. Axis …
A home away from home might be just about the only way to sum up how employees at Heritage Insurance Agency in Chico, Calif., feel about their firm. Employees there nominated Heritage as Insurance Journal’s Best Agency to Work For …
It may not come as much of a surprise to those who know about insurance and cannabis that the business is written mostly by the surplus lines market. Just how much is written there vs. the admitted market? Estimates range …
A report out Thursday from a climate change advocacy group alleges that more than one-fifth of U.S. insurance company board members have worked for the fossil fuel industry, and that two-thirds of all U.S. insurance company board members are “climate …
The phrase “building a culture” in a workplace has been tossed out so often when the topic of making a company a great place at which to work that it has become cliche. But in the case of The Leavitt …
Lately, when people say “wildfire,” California is probably the first state that comes to mind. But a new report out should concern people living in a few other Western states that aren’t often mentioned when the wildfire peril is considered. …
One big national insurance cannabis firm sifted through some of its claims data to tell us that many thefts at cannabis operations are occurring overnight, but more interestingly, based on security footage and other available evidence, it appears criminals are …
A report from the Mortgage Bankers Association says there’s little doubt that climate change will impact housing and the housing finance industry, and while just how great that impact will be is as of yet unknown, the authors take a …
We’re seeing a number of new cannabis insurance products being rolled out. Insurers may be gearing up for a potential 10-fold increase in sales to the booming $17 billion-a-year cannabis industry, as Congress potentially inches closer to legalizing marijuana at …
