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Workplaces Try Avoiding COVID-19 Liabilities With AI Cameras to Track Social Distancing
Stores and workplaces eager to avoid spreading the novel coronavirus are equipping existing security cameras with artificial intelligence software that can track compliance with health guidelines ...
Aon’s C-Level Execs, Most Employees Hit With Pay Cuts Due to Coronavirus Uncertainties
Aon announced it will temporarily cut the pay of the company's named executive officers by 50 percent in response to the COVID-19 crisis. In addition, 70 percent of its global workforce will see a 20 ...
Italy’s Generali Asserts Ability to Remain Independent, Even With COVID-19 Uncertainties
Italy's top insurer, Assicurazioni Generali, said on Saturday it was confident of being able to rebuff a potential takeover bid, thanks to a "solid" group of core domestic shareholders and a strong ...
UK Insurers Must Pay More Coronavirus Claims: Parliamentary Committee
Insurers need to pay out on more claims related to the coronavirus pandemic, according to the head of the UK parliamentary committee that oversees the financial industry. "We are concerned that the ...
Fifth-Generation Wireless Technologies: Suspicion vs. Evidence
One of the more surprising recent conspiracy theories to make the rounds of the Internet and social media is that the COVID-19 pandemic is actually a hoax perpetrated by corporations to cover up the ...
States Increasingly Expand Workers Comp Eligibility in COVID-19 Cases
Sympathetic state lawmakers and regulators in states both red and blue promise to make COVID-19 a major cost driver for workers' compensation insurers. The governors of Kentucky, Arkansas, North ...
The Latest Launches From Slice Labs and W.R. Berkley Corp.
Slice Labs has expanded the reach of its cloud-based cyber insurance for small businesses. W.R. Berkley Corp.'s Berkley One expanded into Georgia and Rhode Island. *** Slice Labs said that its ...
Analysts Tally Workers Comp Cost of Assuming On-The-Job Exposure to COVID-19
While the potential cost of relaxing a tenet of the workers compensation system to deal with extraordinary circumstances of COVID-19 could top $50 billion, it's more likely to be one-fifth of that, ...