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Reinsurers’ 2022 Profit Outlook Better Than Primary Insurers: Fitch
The trailing impacts of premium and loss trends on the books of property/casualty reinsurers makes the 2022 outlook for reinsurers rosier than the profit outlook for primary insurers, a Fitch Rating ...
Insurers Have No Duty to Defend Rite Aid Against Opioid Lawsuits, Says Delaware Supreme Court
Chubb Ltd. has no duty to defend Rite Aid Corp. against lawsuits filed by two Ohio counties that allege the drug store chain's failure to identify suspicious orders contributed to an oversupply of ...
Avoiding Bad Faith Damages: How to Handle Short-Fuse Policy Limit Settlement Demands
The holidays—parties, family and the spirit of giving. Some personal injury plaintiff attorneys really get into the spirit, hoping to receive the gift of "open" policy limits and unlimited injury ...
Customers Trust Bots That Seem Human
The helpful person guiding you through your online purchase might not be a person at all. As artificial intelligence and natural language processing advance, we often don't know if we are talking to ...
Lack of Historical Records Not the Reason Atlantic Hurricanes Seem More Frequent — They Really Are
Forecasting how storms may change in the future, it helps to know something about their past. Judging from historical records dating back to the 1850s, hurricanes in the North Atlantic have become ...
Winter Storm Leaves Hundreds Stuck on Impassable Highway
Hundreds of motorists waited desperately for help Tuesday after a winter storm snarled traffic in Virginia and left some drivers stranded for nearly 24 hours in freezing temperatures along an ...
D&O Insurance Specialist IDs a Fourth Variant of COVID Shareholder Suits
Even over a holiday weekend, alerts were hitting the newswires in advance of Jan. 3—the deadline for shareholders of ON24 to apply for lead plaintiff status in a lawsuit against the online event ...
Saying Goodbye to 2021 Without a Blast (Slideshow)
Weren't there some days at the end of last year when you just felt like—I don't know—blowing up a Tesla? If you are like me, you felt gloomy as the days of 2021 wound down. After a midyear ...