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Amazon Starts Using AI for Warehouse Social Distancing Risk Reduction
Amazon.com Inc on Tuesday launched an artificial intelligence-based tracking system to enforce social distancing at its offices and warehouses to help reduce any risk of contracting the new ...
U.S. Commercial Insurers Can Handle COVID-19 in the Short Term: Fitch Ratings
For U.S. commercial insurers, 2020 was once projected to be an improved, even booming year. Then COVID-19 happened, with the ongoing pandemic increasingly making heavy losses all but certain. Still, ...
SCOTUS Bars Discrimination Against LGBT Workers
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday delivered a watershed victory for LGBT rights and a defeat for President Donald Trump's administration by ruling that a longstanding federal law barring workplace ...
Companies on the Hunt for Creative Workarounds Addressing Rising D&O Costs
When Elon Musk said in April he was dropping the insurance policy that protects Tesla Inc.'s board from shareholder lawsuits, it got Skip McBride's attention. To McBride, who used to manage law firm ...
Businesses That Remained Opened Despite Shutdown Could Face Questions About Coverage
Insurers are already seeing some pushback regarding virus-related claim denials from businesses that suffered losses while closed due to the pandemic, but what about claims a business could file if ...
Cyber Security, Intergenerational Imbalances Among Swiss Re’s New Emerging Risks to Watch
Pandemic threats were once on the list of potential emerging risks facing the insurance industry and society. Now that this risk has materialized with the COVID-19 crisis, it is perhaps a good time ...
U.S. Carriers Beat Back Coronavirus Claims With Massive Cost Estimates
U.S. property and casualty insurers have cast the coronavirus pandemic as an unprecedented event whose massive cost to small businesses they are neither able nor required to cover. The industry has ...
Planck Raises $16 Million for Data Platform; Nationwide Becomes an Investor
Nationwide, eyeing the possibilities with Planck's AI-driven commercial insurance data platform, joined the company's latest financing round. Planck recently raised $16 million in a Series B venture ...