July 6, 2022
A wild storm system has moved away from Sydney after pounding Australia’s largest city with four days of torrential rain, satellite images showed on Wednesday, although river waters stayed above danger levels, forcing more evacuations. The year’s third major flooding …
July 6, 2022
While young underwriters may think that cyber insurance is a recent coverage innovation, the line is actually more than two decades old. Here, Kurtis Suhs, a veteran of the cyber insurance industry who served as an investigator and criminal coordinator …
July 6, 2022
A lawsuit recently filed by a Baltimore nonprofit alleges the city department that handles police records is improperly shielding police misconduct documents. The suit brought by the transparency advocacy group Open Justice Baltimore and two journalists alleges the Baltimore Law …
July 5, 2022
Payments for medical-legal services used to resolve medical disputes over compensability issues in California work injury claims have risen sharply under the new Medical-Legal Fee Schedule that took effect last year, a new report shows. The report from the California …
July 5, 2022
Insurers might say this one falls in the category of “no good deed goes unpunished.” In a workers’ compensation decision published July 5, the North Carolina Court of Appeals held that the re-issuance of a missing check to an injured …
July 5, 2022
MarketScout said commercial property/casualty rates in the U.S. during the second quarter 2022 were about the same as the first quarter, with composite average rate increases across all lines of just over 5.9%. Increases were 6% in the first quarter …
July 5, 2022
The Austin, Texas fire department reported at least 90 fires the night of July 4th in spite of a fireworks ban ordered by Austin and Travis County officials. Most of the fires were small grass, dumpster and trash fires, the …
July 5, 2022
The first lawsuits have been filed only days after an Amtrak train collision and derailment in rural Missouri that left four people dead and injured up to 150 others. In a federal lawsuit filed last Friday, surviving passenger Janet Williams …
July 5, 2022
A federal workplace safety investigation found that a temporary worker suffered serious injuries on Jan. 3, 2022, after being struck by a large mold at a Texas concrete polymer manufacturing company. It was determined that the employer failed to install …
July 5, 2022
The Gray Insurance Company Names Borne “Paul” Boudreaux, III as President The Gray Insurance Company announced that Borne “Paul” Boudreaux, III will be named President of the Company, effective July 1, 2022. In his new position, he will take a …