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Materials shortages, unreliable deliveries and skilled labor shortages can all contribute to delays for construction projects and require extensions on insurance.
The 2021 Business Insurance U.S. Insurance Awards celebrate a wide range of teams and individuals from across the insurance and risk management sector.
When Brian Duperreault retires from American International Group Inc. at the end of this year, hell be leaving the same company he joined as a trainee in the early 1970s but a lot has happened along the way.
A makeup artist in Louisiana who stepped into a pothole and injured her ankle and foot.
The chocked-up marine supply chain, as illustrated by news photos of ships sitting at ports for long periods waiting to be unloaded, is becoming an issue of increasing concern to the insurance industry.
Businesses increasingly collaborate with social media influencers to promote their brand and connect with their online audience, but such relationships can put a companys reputation on the line and create liability risks.
In August 2021, an unprecedented 4.3 million U.S. workers quit their jobs a 20% increase from August 2019, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
As consumer eating habits and preferences change, agricultural and crop insurers are seeing a rise in demand for coverage for specialty crops.
Shortages lead to skyrocketing prices for wide range of building materials, adding to insured values across sector
U.S. labor market analyses make for confusing reading as economists and statisticians try to figure out whether headline unemployment rates reflect the reality that jobless people experience.
When the garage door to our house stopped opening last month, I figured the battery on the remote opener needed replacing and it would be a quick fix.
Driven by ransomware attacks, the cyber liability insurance market has been hardening at a dizzying pace, with increased losses, rising rates, higher retentions, the imposition of sublimits and coinsurance requirements, limited capacity and insurers sometimes onerous information demands that must be met before coverage is provided.
A lawsuit pending in a California appeals court threatens to upend a more than century-old workers compensation provision that legal experts say could subject employers to potentially unlimited tort liability and trigger an avalanche of litigation.
These days parametric insurance is, excuse the expression, a hot topic among those considering the impact of climate change.
A resurgence in mergers and acquisitions activity coming out of the pandemic has fueled a record volume of deals and unprecedented demand for representations and warranties insurance, industry experts say.
While employers brace for the many unknowns connected to the forthcoming federal employee mandate on vaccinations, there is much that they can be doing to prepare for the heightened risks of requiring workers to be vaccinated, legal experts say.
Levee systems, which came under scrutiny after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans 16 years ago, can still successfully mitigate water damage exposures from storms and floods, as was demonstrated in August when the citys upgraded levees largely contained flooding after Hurricane Ida.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will continue to pursue companies that breach securities laws by making inadequate cybersecurity disclosures, experts say.
David Dwortz is president and CEO of third-party administrator Helmsman Management Services LLC, a Boston-based unit of Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.
Like many people, Ive gradually started to venture outside my home office over the past few months.
When the levees failed in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrinas landfall in 2005, my husband and I, newly married and living in San Diego, watched the national news replete with personal tragedy, political nonfeasance and geographic nuance in a permanent state of gasp.
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Materials shortages, unreliable deliveries and skilled labor shortages can all contribute to delays for construction projects and require extensions on insurance.
The 2021 Business Insurance U.S. Insurance Awards celebrate a wide range of teams and individuals from across the insurance and risk management sector.
When Brian Duperreault retires from American International Group Inc. at the end of this year, hell be leaving the same company he joined as a trainee in the early 1970s but a lot has happened along the way.
A makeup artist in Louisiana who stepped into a pothole and injured her ankle and foot.
The chocked-up marine supply chain, as illustrated by news photos of ships sitting at ports for long periods waiting to be unloaded, is becoming an issue of increasing concern to the insurance industry.
Businesses increasingly collaborate with social media influencers to promote their brand and connect with their online audience, but such relationships can put a companys reputation on the line and create liability risks.
In August 2021, an unprecedented 4.3 million U.S. workers quit their jobs a 20% increase from August 2019, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
As consumer eating habits and preferences change, agricultural and crop insurers are seeing a rise in demand for coverage for specialty crops.
Shortages lead to skyrocketing prices for wide range of building materials, adding to insured values across sector
U.S. labor market analyses make for confusing reading as economists and statisticians try to figure out whether headline unemployment rates reflect the reality that jobless people experience.
When the garage door to our house stopped opening last month, I figured the battery on the remote opener needed replacing and it would be a quick fix.
Driven by ransomware attacks, the cyber liability insurance market has been hardening at a dizzying pace, with increased losses, rising rates, higher retentions, the imposition of sublimits and coinsurance requirements, limited capacity and insurers sometimes onerous information demands that must be met before coverage is provided.
A lawsuit pending in a California appeals court threatens to upend a more than century-old workers compensation provision that legal experts say could subject employers to potentially unlimited tort liability and trigger an avalanche of litigation.
These days parametric insurance is, excuse the expression, a hot topic among those considering the impact of climate change.
A resurgence in mergers and acquisitions activity coming out of the pandemic has fueled a record volume of deals and unprecedented demand for representations and warranties insurance, industry experts say.
While employers brace for the many unknowns connected to the forthcoming federal employee mandate on vaccinations, there is much that they can be doing to prepare for the heightened risks of requiring workers to be vaccinated, legal experts say.
Levee systems, which came under scrutiny after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans 16 years ago, can still successfully mitigate water damage exposures from storms and floods, as was demonstrated in August when the citys upgraded levees largely contained flooding after Hurricane Ida.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will continue to pursue companies that breach securities laws by making inadequate cybersecurity disclosures, experts say.
David Dwortz is president and CEO of third-party administrator Helmsman Management Services LLC, a Boston-based unit of Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.
Like many people, Ive gradually started to venture outside my home office over the past few months.
When the levees failed in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrinas landfall in 2005, my husband and I, newly married and living in San Diego, watched the national news replete with personal tragedy, political nonfeasance and geographic nuance in a permanent state of gasp.
