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Tesla Founder Musk Cancels Company’s D&O Cover, Pledging to Replace With ‘Personal Coverage’
Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk is getting into the insurance business again, sort of. Musk has cancelled his company's directors and officers insurance (D&O), replacing it with a promise to ...
COVID-19 Aftermath: Employers May Exclude Payroll to Employees Not Working for Workers Comp
Businesses that have suspended operations due to COVID-19 but continue to pay employees who are at home but not working will not have to include the payroll paid to these employees in the calculation ...
P/C Insurance Industry Supports New Government Fund to Help Businesses, Workers Harmed by Coronavirus Crisis
The property/casualty insurance industry has joined a broad business coalition in supporting and crafting a new federal relief fund for businesses and workers affected by the quarantine and ...
From Free Coverage to Masks, P/C Insurers Try to Alleviate Coronavirus Pressures
While the property/casualty insurance industry is fighting attempts to force it to pay for the huge business income losses that it says most policies were never intended to cover, some individual ...
Insurers Know They’re Essential, and Coronavirus Business Shutdowns Prove It
Insurance industry professionals might take some pride in knowing that they are considered essential. In states where only essential businesses are allowed to keep operations going during the ...
Pressure Builds on Insurers to Be Part of Coronavirus Business Solution
While federal and state legislators try to fashion financial relief for businesses interrupted by the public health actions related to coronavirus, pressure is mounting on private property/casualty ...
U.S. Cybersecurity Report Calls for Major Government Role in Cyber Insurance
A major government report on cybersecurity that warns the nation is seriously underprepared for cyber attacks calls for the creation of a federally funded center to develop cybersecurity insurance ...
Insurance Conferences Go on Despite Coronavirus, but No Handshakes (or Buffets) Allowed
As the coronavirus and its COVID-19 disease spread, Insurance professionals going to industry conferences over the next few weeks and months could find themselves having their temperature taken at ...