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Smaller Websites Nervous Over Giant Facebook’s Support for Liability Reform

Facebook Inc. says it’s time to rethink the legal immunity that protects it from lawsuits over what users post online, a position that’s leaving smaller websites concerned about the cost of accepting more responsibility for what appears on their platforms. …

Numerous Abuse Lawsuits Filed in Arizona Against Boy Scout Councils

Eight lawsuits filed this week allege that Boy Scout leaders in Arizona had sexually abused children dating back decades, signaling what is expected to be a flood of lawsuits in the state before the end of the year for childhood …

Seattle Scaling Back Bridge Earthquake Retrofit Work

The Seattle Department of Transportation now says reinforcing 16 bridges to better withstand eartquakes would cost hundreds of millions of dollars more than once expected. The Seattle Times reports that instead of 16 bridges, the city now plans to complete …

California Sues Companies to Recover Costs for Lead Pollution Cleanup

A lawsuit has been filed against multiple companies connected to a now-closed battery recycling plant years after California regulators pledged to recover cleanup costs from those responsible for spreading lead pollution to thousands of homes in southeast Los Angeles County. …

Captive Re/Insurance MGU, International Re, Partners with Admitted Insurer Cimarron

International Re (I–RE), the specialist captive insurance and reinsurance managing general underwriter (MGU), is announcing a new strategic capacity partnership with Cimarron Insurance, a niche specialist admitted insurer. The partnership will underwrite a range of admitted property and casualty lines …

Social Inflation Lesson: Not Settling Cost Insurer Millions in Suit by Excess Insurer

The defense team for Chubb Group’s Ace American Insurance Co. was confident that no jury would award more than $2 million in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Mark Braswell, who died on May 16, 2014 when …

Google Adds Extra Scrutiny of Its Scientists’ Research on ‘Sensitive Topics’

Alphabet Inc.’s Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists’ papers by launching a “sensitive topics” review, and in at least three cases requested authors refrain from casting its technology in a negative light, according to internal communications …

Chubb Global Markets Promotes Driscoll, Rowley in Professional Indemnity Teams

Chubb announced leadership promotions to its professional indemnity teams for Chubb Global Markets (CGM). Under the changes, Steve Driscoll is appointed head of Professional Indemnity for CGM and also for the United Kingdom & Ireland (UK&I). CGM comprises Chubb’s London …

DealerPolicy Purchases Insurance Business from Granite State Independent Insurance

DealerPolicy Insurance Agency of Williston, Vt., has purchased the insurance business associated with Granite State Independent Insurance of Tilton, N.H. Granite State Independent Insurance will cease to operate effective with this transaction. Its personal and commercial insurance customers will now …

Owner to Rebuild After Upstate New York Sports Dome Collapses Under Snowfall

The owner of a sports complex in the upstate New York city of Binghamton says he plans to rebuild after its air-supported dome collapsed under this week’s record-breaking snowfall. No one was injured when one of the state’s largest indoor …

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