The Minnesota Legislature is reconvening to pass a bill to ensure that first responders and health care workers who contract COVID-19 qualify for workers’ compensation without having to prove that they contracted the disease on the job. Legislative leaders announced …
Venture Underwriters Inc., a division of Allstar Financial Group, has expanded its Chicago underwriting team to include commercial underwriting veteran Chris Barrow. Barrow joins Chicago office as vice president specializing in commercial general liability. The office will be relocating to …
Insurance broker and risk advisor, Marsh, has appointed David Rahr as global leader, Multinational Client Service. Based in Chicago, he will report to Flavio Piccolomini, president, Marsh International, and Martin South, president, US and Canada. In this role, effective April …
Workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., will distribute $330 million in policyholder dividends to be paid out two months early than scheduled. The company has historically paid dividends in June, and in response to the coronavirus pandemic, saw an …
Scott Kreuzer has been appointed senior managing director, Americas, at Aspen Re, effective May 4, 2020. Kreuzer joins Aspen Re from Axis Reinsurance where he has served as senior vice president, head of Casualty North America, since August 2018. He …
Experts and health officials who are trying to plan a response to the coronavirus outbreak are missing a critical piece of information — the number of health care workers who have tested positive for the disease. Washington state faced the …
A new study makes the case that entrepreneurship isn’t just for the young, or for men. From Steve Jobs to Mark Zuckerberg, the stories of prosperous, young innovators drive the American economic narrative. However, the truth is that older business …
Financial deals in the U.S. insurance industry dropped off 8% during February 2020 compared with the last 12-month average. According to GlobalData’s deals database, a total of 46 deals worth $3.27 billion were announced in February 2020, compared to the …
Arizona now has over 2,000 cases of the new coronavirus and the state’s death toll from the disease has topped 50, state health officials reported Saturday. The Department of Health Services reported 2,019 cases statewide with 52 death as of …
A man is suing the organizers of a 2018 Bend, Ore. horse show for serious injuries he says he suffered when high winds lifted the portable stall he and his horse were inside and threw them 40 feet. Jeffrey Ruthhardt …
