workers’ compensation News
Workers Comp Performed Strongly During Pandemic Even With Premium Plunge
Because of job losses and shrinking payrolls during the pandemic recession, the workers compensation industry's net written premium dropped 10 percent to $42 billion in 2020. However, private ...
Liberty Mutual and TuSimple to Assess Autonomous Truck Safety
Liberty Mutual Insurance plans to work with TuSimple, a self-driving technology company, to assess if autonomous trucks are safer than human-driven vehicles. Specifically, the companies will compare ...
Pie Insurance Raises $118M From Allianz and More
Pie Insurance has pulled in $118 million in new funding, with the workers compensation provider attracting financing from Allianz and others. Executives at the Denver-based InsurTech will use the ...
U.S. Commercial Rate Hikes Continue Robust Climb in Q4, Except Workers Comp
U.S. commercial insurance price hikes surpassed 10 percent in aggregate during the 2020 fourth quarter, another robust climb for a sector that produced aggressive rate hikes all year, according to ...
Workers Comp and COVID: More Data on Evolving Claims
Workers compensation insurers aren't getting the large aggregate volumes of COVID-related claims projected during the early months of the pandemic, but different data sources give varying readouts on ...
W.R. Berkley Reports Record Q4 Net Income
W.R. Berkley Corp. generated record net income in its 2020 fourth-quarter and a healthy combined ratio, results that company attributed to rate hikes, bigger investment returns and ongoing ...
Responding to the Impact of COVID-19 on Workers Compensation
The workers compensation system has faced extraordinary challenges in the past 12 months. They just aren't the same issues we thought we would be addressing when the pandemic hit the U.S. in March ...
Next Insurance Snatches Up Juniper Labs, a Data/Underwriting Tech Startup
Next Insurance - an InsurTech focused on small business coverage - has closed its first acquisition. More could be on the horizon. The California-based company startup acquired Juniper Labs, a ...