Its A Great Time To Be A Risk Manager
2017 has so far been a wild ride of change. Companies are navigating through a new U.S. administration, Brexit and cyber risks that are more daunting each day. We are bombarded with uncertainty and unchartered waters.
April 21, 2017
Liability
Property
Risk Management
Technology
Cherokee Nation Sues Drug Firms, Retailers For Flooding Communities With Opioids
Lawyers for the Cherokee Nation opened a new line of attack against the pharmaceutical industry today, filing a lawsuit in tribal court that accuses the nations six top drug distributors and pharmacies of flooding communities in Oklahoma with hundreds of millions of highly addictive pain pills.
April 21, 2017
Liability
Litigation
Oklahoma
West Virginia
Honda Says U.S. Driver Seriously Injured In Takata Inflator Rupture
Honda Motor Co Ltd (7267.T) said on Wednesday a driver of a 2002 Accord was seriously injured after a faulty Takata air bag inflator ruptured during a March 3 crash in Las Vegas, Nevada.
April 20, 2017
Auto
Liability
Nevada
Texas DOT: Fatal Crashes In Work Zones Up 27%
New data released by the Texas Department of Transportation has highlighted a troubling trend on state roads. Last year, there were 25,713 crashes in work zones, which resulted in 181 deaths.
April 20, 2017
Auto
Liability
Texas
12 Students Hospitalized After Idaho School Bus Rolls Over
At least a dozen students were hospitalized after their school bus rolled over on a rural Idaho highway, police said. The driver, 67-year-old Richard Mecham, drove off the right shoulder, overcorrected and rolled the 2011 school bus Tuesday, according to Idaho State Police.
April 19, 2017
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Idaho
New System Finds Stolen Health Data On The Dark Web
With health data breaches reaching epidemic proportions, healthcare organizations are resigning themselves to the fact that losing sensitive data to hackers is inevitable.
April 19, 2017
Liability
Life & Health
Risk Management
Solar Energy: So Hot Right Now In The Insurance World
Solar energy is taking over the energy space in the United States, and thats good news for the environment and for insurers.
April 18, 2017
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Arizona
California
Michigan Looks To Kill 7-Day Car Insurance
Michigan is attempting to end seven-day auto insurance policies popular with cash-strapped drivers in Detroit and other urban areas, arguing the “jump start” policies undermine state law requiring continuous no-fault coverage.
April 18, 2017
Auto
Legislation & Regulation
Liability
Michigan
Crash Leaves Car Wedged Under Tractor-Trailer In Queens
At least three people were hurt in a motor vehicle accident involving a tractor-trailer in the Rosedale section of Queens Monday evening.
April 18, 2017
Auto
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
New York
Nows The Time For Insurers To Develop Meaningful Cyber Liability Policies
Uncertainty about several key variables appears to be causing U.S. businesses and insurance companies to move cautiously into the much-heralded, though still nascent, market for cyber liability policies.
April 17, 2017
Liability
Woman Wrecks After E-Cig Explodes In Her Lap
A woman suffered second-degree burns to her legs and multiple broken bones after her electronic cigarette exploded.
April 17, 2017
Auto
Liability
Life & Health
Arizona
Boy, 5, Crushed At Rotating Atlanta Restaurant
A 5-year-old boy died after being crushed Friday in a rotating restaurant atop a downtown Atlanta tower, with the child getting caught between a table and a wall as the floor moved, police said.
April 17, 2017
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Litigation
Georgia
Car Runs Stop Sign, Collides With School Bus
A Wake County school bus was involved in a crash along Ponderosa Service Road south of Falls of Neuse and Capital Boulevard early Wednesday. Pictures from the scene showed students being cared for by EMS workers and then loaded into ambulances.
April 13, 2017
Auto
Liability
North Carolina
Family Of Teen Who Drowned In Electrified Pool Files Suit
Instead of celebrating what wouldve been Rachel Rosoffs 18th birthday, her family was filing a lawsuit inside Wake County Superior Court blaming Rachels electrocution and drowning on the alleged shoddy repair work of two Raleigh companies.
April 13, 2017
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Litigation
North Carolina
7 Students Injured In Sarasota, Florida School Bus Crash
There were multiple injuries following a crash involving a Sarasota County school bus and a second vehicle Tuesday morning in Sarasota.
April 12, 2017
Auto
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Florida



