ATLANTA (AP) — A former University of Georgia recruiting analyst who was severely injured in a deadly car crash has settled her lawsuit against the school’s athletic association nearly two years after the accident. In a court filing last week, …
U.S. facial recognition company Clearview AI has been fined 30.5 million euros ($33.7 million) for building what Dutch data protection watchdog DPA said on Tuesday was an illegal database. DPA also issued an additional order, imposing a penalty of up …
First Connect Insurance Services and Root Insurance said they are partnering to off API-powered quote and bind capabilities to independent agents. First Connect, a subsidiary of insurtech Hippo, is a digital platform designed to provide independent agents access to some …
Moody’s Corp. today said it acquired analytics firm Praedicat. The acquisition adds casualty and liability modeling to Moody’s range of market leading solutions for the insurance industry. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Praedicat’s models and predictive analytics help …
Johnson & Johnson plans to pay an additional $1.1 billion to resolve tens of thousands of legal actions alleging its baby powder and other talc products caused cancer, two people familiar with the matter said. The increase would boost the …
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Brit Ltd. in Bermuda and HDI Global in Germany. A summary of these new hires follows here. Brit Names Guy Carpenter’s Stephenson to Lead Bermuda Expansion Brit Ltd. announced the appointment …
As the planet warms and more natural disasters occur, insurers are facing an increasingly difficult time. In 2023, for the fourth year in a row, global insured catastrophe losses exceeded $100 billion. The trend continues this year: In the first …
A public inquiry into the devastating 2017 London Grenfell Tower blaze concluded on Wednesday that a “culmination of decades of failure” by the government and the construction industry ultimately led to the disaster that killed 72 people. The report detailed …
As litigation and regulation increase around per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), insurance underwriting is tightening across lines. Insurance professionals who specialize in PFAS say insurers are mandating coverage exclusions and, in some cases, declining to write liability policies at all …
A public inquiry into the devastating 2017 London Grenfell Tower blaze that killed 72 people blamed the disaster on failings by the government, construction industry and, most of all, the firms involved in fitting the exterior with flammable cladding. The …
