Global Warming Increasing Frequency of 100-Year Rainstorms: Risk Alerts
Global warming is intensifying rainstorms in North America. Rats are becoming more aggressive in their hunt for food due to pandemic lockdown measures.***
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How Smart Technology Creates New Home Insurance Opportunities
While the average American home hasn't changed much on the outside, the devices and lifestyles inside have changed dramatically in the last 50 years. As transmitter radios were replaced with ...
COVID-Driven Bankruptcy Litigation Setting D&O Market on Edge
With revenues tumbling, companies across many industry sectors confront a heightened risk of bankruptcy, spurring possible class action lawsuits brought by creditors against corporate directors and ...
Business Interrupted: Why Insurers Are on the Hook for COVID-19
If you own business Interruption insurance, and your business gets interrupted by COVID-19, the income you lose must be covered by your policy, right? Not exactly, as people across the country are ...
Driving Hasn’t Found Its New Normal Yet: Opinion
Memorial Day weekend, the typical start of the U.S. summer driving season, has come and gone. Data on just how much driving Americans did is trickling in, and it's a bit noisy. Apple mobility trends ...
Holistic Workers Comp: Moving Beyond the Physical
For too many workers, the effects of injuries do not end when their physical harm is healed and they get back to their jobs. What begins as a work injury too often ends up leading to deep and ...
AIR Worldwide: Global COVID-19 Deaths Could Reach 644,000 in June
Over the next four weeks, the number of global COVID-19 cases could reach 50 million, with 644,000 estimated deaths, according to AIR Worldwide, Verisk's catastrophe modeling unit. As of May 19, ...
Court Orders AXA to Pay Restaurant’s COVID-19 Business Interruption Losses
A Paris commercial court ruled that insurer AXA must pay a restaurant owner two months' worth of coronavirus-related revenue losses, the restaurateur's lawyer said on Friday, possibly opening the ...
Climate Change Making Hurricanes Stronger: Study
Hurricanes have grown stronger over the last four decades—and climate change is likely to blame, says a new study from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Cooperative ...