Litigation/Liability Trends
AIG Will Sell Medical Stop-Loss Operations to Tokio Marine HCC
Tokio Marine HCC plans to acquire the medical stop-loss operations of American International Group. Neither side is disclosing financial terms in the deal, which is expected to close on Oct. 15. But ...
SCOTUS Considers Right of Workers to Bring Class-Action Claims; Court Divided
Liberal U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday defended the right of workers to bring class-action claims against companies but their conservative counterparts who are in the majority sounded ...
A Roundup of Major Insurer/Reinsurer Hurricane and Quake Losses Thus Far
Losses from Hurricane Maria and other recent 2017 natural catastrophes—including hurricanes Irma and Harvey, the Mexico City earthquakes, and other events—have led global insurers and reinsurers ...
Appeals Court Overturns $663M Trinity Guardrail Judgement
Trinity Industries Inc. won't have to pay a $663 million judgment that was awarded in a whistle-blower lawsuit alleging the company defrauded the U.S. government with a faulty highway guardrail ...
Hurricane Maria Insured Loss Estimates Vary Widely in Focus
Catastrophe modeling firms are beginning to issue preliminary estimates of the insured losses left in Hurricane Maria's wake. RMS Said Insured Losses Could Have Been Worse RMS predicted that the ...
AGCS and Cyence Link on Cyber Risk Modeling Plan
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE is turning to Silicon Valley startup Cyence an effort to boost its ability to perform global cyber risk analysis in multiple ways. Their pairing will allow ...
Small, Medium-Sized Businesses See BI Coverage Gaps After Terrorist Attacks: Pool Re Report
Many terrorism insurance policies are triggered when there is physical damage to a property. As a result, commercial insurance buyers may find that they are unprotected against business interruption ...
Equifax CEO Smith Retires After Massive Cyber Attack
Equifax said on Tuesday its Chief Executive Officer Richard Smith will retire following a massive data breach at the credit reporting firm that exposed personal details of up to 143 million U.S. ...