Moody’s RMS, the catastrophe risk modelling specialist, has estimated that the recent severe flooding in California, that was triggered by a spate of storms and atmospheric river events, could amount to as much as $1.5 billion in losses for the insurance industry.
There is no ‘magic sauce’ related to a successful talent management program. That said, I think it is a blend of several basic human resource management elements....
Emergency responders in the Houston area say they are responding to reports of damage and stranded motorists after a possible tornado moved through the area Tuesday.
A Texas state representative who has spent years advocating for insurance reform has introduced a new bill that could change the way disputed appraisals are resolved.
Former National Football League player Sharrif K. Floyd, whose career ended after knee surgery, sued a Sompo International Holding Co. unit, a The Doctors Co. unit, Marsh USA Inc. and USI Insurance Services LLC, charging a $10 million shortfall in insurance proceeds.
With everything employers have on their plates, why should they care about Medicare Set-Asides, or MSAs? The main reason is: MSAs facilitate workers’ compensation settlements.
It’s a sign of the times at Tesla that I need to specify which issue is the moment of truth that I refer to in the headline. I’m not talking about the high-profile lawsuit that began last week into whether CEO Elon Musk owes damages to investors who bought stock in 2018 when he tweeted, falsely, that he had "funding secured" to take the company private.
North American travelers were plagued by extraordinary travel disruptions over the recent holiday season, compounded by a ‘once in a generation’ winter storm that struck the US.
The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), together with the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud and the International Association of Special Investigation Units, has sent a joint letter to YouTube requesting the social media platform to take down all videos that provide ‘how to’ tutorials on carjacking Kia and Hyundai automobiles.
Major auto insurers are pulling back in the California marketplace because they are saying our drivers are just too expensive to insure. Californians are driving about as much as they were before the pandemic, but apparently not as well.
Bad news for one insurance company. After failing for nearly 400 days to tender its policy limit of $250,000 in coverage, according to plaintiff counsel, an insurance company took an $8.5 million hit to its bottom line to settle a lawsuit involving a catastrophic injury after a wild series of events.
With high inflation and pandemic tendencies holding on, consumer preferences and buying behaviors have shifted over the past few years. They come with consequences.
January 20, 2023 Insurance Thought Leadership Auto
With the departure of the baby boomer generation from the workforce, the insurance industry faces an inevitable employment gap. Intriguingly, the insurance sector employs most working individuals 50 and older, and within the next year, close to a quarter of insurance pros will be looking forward to retirement within a decade.
It’s Cyber Security 101: Multi-factor authentication and hard-to-crack passwords are table stakes for preventing incursions. Nevertheless, ‘Password,’ ‘12345’, and ‘Qwerty123’ are among the most commonly found passwords leaked on the dark web by hackers, according to mobile security firm Lookout
January 20, 2023 Insurance Thought Leadership Risk Management