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Supreme Court Justices Question Landowners’ Claims in Montana Superfund Cleanup

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared inclined to shield a unit of British oil major BP Plc from claims seeking a more extensive cleanup of a Superfund hazardous waste site in Montana than what federal environmental officials had ordered. …

How Sex Abuse Claims Laws Have Changed in 15 States

Fifteen states have revised their laws in the past two years extending or suspending statute of limitations to allow child sex abuse claims stretching back decades, unleashing potentially thousands of new lawsuits against the U.S. Roman Catholic Church. Some highlights …

Under New State Laws, Catholic Church Could See New Wave of Abuse Suits

A wave of new laws in 15 states that allow people to make claims of sexual abuse going back decades could bring a deluge of lawsuits against the Roman Catholic Church that could surpass anything seen so far in its …

Preferred Property Program Launches D&O Policy for Community Associations

Preferred Property Programs (PPP), a division of Jacobson, Goldfarb & Scott, Inc. (JGS Insurance), has released a national insurance product for community associations. In conjunction with AXA XL, a division of AXA, PPP will offer a directors and officers insurance …

Philadelphia Insurance Promotes Cundiff to Lead Surety Division Nationwide

Philadelphia Insurance Companies, a commercial property/casualty and professional liability insurer, announced the promotion of Michael Cundiff from vice president to senior vice president of Surety. Cundiff will succeed Ed Titus, who started the surety division in 2011 and who will …

Argo Group Hires QBE’s Grange to Join U.S. Leadership Under New Structure

Specialty insurer Argo Group International Holdings has named Jeff Grange to serve as an executive vice president for U.S. operations. In this role, Grange will lead the following businesses: Argo Casualty, Argo Pro, Argo Insurance, Rockwood and Argo Cyber. He …

Was It an Act of War? That’s Merck Cyber Attack’s $1.3 Billion Insurance Question.

By the time Deb Dellapena arrived for work at Merck & Co.’s 90-acre campus north of Philadelphia, there was a handwritten sign on the door: The computers are down. It was worse than it seemed. Some employees who were already …

Musk Defamation Trial Over ‘Pedo Guy’ Tweet Set to Begin

Tesla boss Elon Musk is set to go on trial on Tuesday after he described a British cave explorer who helped rescue a group of boys from a cave complex in Thailand as a pedophile on Twitter. Vernon Unsworth, who …

Reuters Special Report: Powder Keg- Regulators Bowed to Industry for Decades Over Talc Risks

At an invitation-only gathering late last year, U.S. regulators and their guests huddled at a hotel near Washington, D.C., to discuss the best way to detect cancer-causing asbestos in talc powders and cosmetics. The “Asbestos in Talc Symposium,” sponsored by …

Vape Crisis Prompts Calls for Greater Clarity in Cannabis Regulation

Cannabis industry lawyers are calling for greater clarity around regulation of the cannabis industry. Panelists at the 2019 Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) Conference in Washington D.C. this month said the ongoing vape crisis in particular highlights the need for …

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