As Florida businesses are navigating the “Safe. Smart. Step-by-Step Plan” to reopen Florida, the wave of COVID-19-related litigation is highlighting the fact that these lawsuits may also dredge up long-simmering employment conflicts unrelated to the pandemic.

SUVs are more likely than passenger cars to injure or kill pedestrians, according to a new U.S. insurance industry study which recommended design changes to improve safety.

Around the globe, the take-up of electric cars is expected to accelerate rapidly in future, driven by consumer demand and government policies aimed at tackling climate change.

Intact Financial Corp. is likely to pay out more than $80 million for commercial claims arising directly from the COVID-19 pandemic, but has only seen a small fraction of that so far, CEO Charles Brindamour said Wednesday.

Insurance plays a significant role in everything imaginable. One reason why is because it must be legally owned to perform certain activities — think of auto insurance and driving a car; other examples of compulsory insurance include workers’ compensation and professional liability insurance.

A perfect storm of macro factors has supercharged several trends in the insurance industry, producing almost touchless processes for claims and enabling cycle times of seconds, minutes and hours instead of days and weeks.

It is no secret that technology is continuing to disrupt the auto casualty and workers’ compensation industries. Further digitizing the claims process can provide a variety of benefits for payors and claimants alike, including improving the consumer experience, boosting efficiencies, reducing fraud and allowing for adjusters and other claims handlers to focus on what matters most—helping restore claimants’ lives after a challenging event.

The Michigan Legislature passed no-fault auto insurance laws in 1973, and like a T-Rex guarding its bone, has been holding on to this dysfunctional approach to auto insurance ever since. Instead of running away completely from the problem and joining states which have enjoyed lower auto insurance premiums after abandoning the failed no-fault experiment, Michigan has historically doubled down on their system and made it even more difficult for seriously injured accident victims to receive necessary catastrophic injury coverage.

My purpose today is to add some clarity and remind readers that, when it comes to most of the insurance products we sell, there is little, if any, insurance coverage response. But first, let’s take a look at what a GMO is, how long they have been around, and what they mean for agriculture and the food on your table.

Rising legal malpractice claims are hitting US law firms hard, with lawyers’ professional liability insurers seeing greater frequency and severity of claims, according to a new study by insurance broker Ames & Gough.

The Senate voted 29-8 Monday to pass a bill that could lower auto insurance rates by limiting damage suits by people injured in car wrecks. The bill by Sen. Kirk Talbot, R-River Ridge, would change aspects of Louisiana’s tort laws that Republican lawmakers and business lobbyists say make it too easy to file lawsuits after car accidents.

An Ohio legislator has introduced a bill to limit lawsuits that may arise during the coronavirus pandemic.

Unfriend Coal — a global network of NGOs and social movements appealing for insurance companies to divest out of the fossil fuel business — has called out major insurance companies Lloyd’s, Zurich, and Munich Re for providing hundreds of millions in liability insurance coverage to the Trans Mountain pipeline project.

When it comes to so-called “nuclear verdicts”—or “social inflation” in the insurance industry—hindsight is 20/20, as a survey of the highest payouts in motor vehicle accident and premises liability cases across the Southeast U.S. reflects.

The commissioner of the Pennsylvania Insurance Department on Monday reminded businesses statewide of the importance of complying with Governor Tom Wolf’s orders for counties in the red and yellow phases of the COVID-19 outbreak.