June 4, 2019
Pie Insurance said it has been approved to sell workers’ compensation insurance in Delaware, Indiana, Nevada, South Carolina and Virginia. Pie sells directly to small business and promises them they can get a workers’ compensation quote online in as little …
June 4, 2019
Medical treatment for injured workers costs more and prices are growing faster in states that don’t have fee schedules, concludes a new study. The Workers’ Compensation Research Institute studied 30 states without fee schedules and found the prices paid in …
June 4, 2019
More than 1 in 10 Americans (12%) say they do not feel safe in their places of worship. Church Mutual Insurance Co., a leading insurer of religious organizations, said it learned in a new survey that fear of armed intruders …
June 4, 2019
Millennials — those born between 1981 and 1996— are nearly three times more likely to have purchased flood insurance than their older Baby Boomer counterparts born between 1944 and 1964, a new survey finds. Overall, less than half of Americans …
June 4, 2019
The Atlantic hurricane season, which began June 1, puts 7.3 million homes at risk with an estimated reconstruction cost of $1.8 trillion, CoreLogic said in its 2019 Storm Surge Report. That’s 300,000 more homes and $200 billion more in reconstruction …
June 4, 2019
The U.S. Supreme Court will use a case involving International Business Machines Corp. to consider making it harder for workers to sue when their retirement plans lose money because the employer’s stock price falls. The justices said they will scrutinize …
June 3, 2019
The U.S. Congress on Monday approved legislation providing $19.1 billion in emergency funding for disaster recovery efforts throughout the United States, including Puerto Rico, sending it to President Donald Trump to sign into law. Final passage came as the Democratic-led …
June 3, 2019
CyberPolicy, an online marketplace designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to compare, quote, and buy cyber insurance, has released CyberPolicy Genesis, a one-click cyber insurance product. Starting at just $9.99 per month, CyberPolicy Genesis bundles cybersecurity protection with the …
June 3, 2019
Reid French has stepped down as CEO of the insurance agency technology firm Applied Systems, and cloud technology executive Taylor Rhodes has joined as Applied’s new chief executive officer. French, who served as CEO for eight years, will continue to …
June 3, 2019
Cryptocurrency pioneer Justin Sun bid a record $4.57 million to have lunch with billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who famously referred to Bitcoin as “probably rat poison squared.” The 28-year-old Sun, who launched Tron or TRX token in 2017, submitted the …