September 23, 2022
Here are the top five future risks troubling the reinsurance companies of the world, according to Swiss Re — reinsurers are the ones that back up the primary insurance companies who actually put their names on the policies (the retail insurers). Legal tech — is AI rendering justice? Over the past decades, AI in law […]
August 25, 2022
Standard business general liability (GL) policies provide little coverage for pollution damage, including toxic spills like the one in West Virginia in 2014. Today most companies that store or handle potentially toxic materials purchase a separate environmental liability policy. These policies cover the exposure that the GL policy excludes. Property owners purchase environmental impairment liability […]
August 11, 2022
Your organization has just been sued, and you’ve notified your liability insurer. Then you receive a reservation of rights letter. Here’s what it means and what to do. The insurance reference resource Practical Risk Management defines a reservation of rights as “an insurer’s notification to an insured that coverage for a claim may not apply. […]
June 28, 2022
The typical equipment breakdown insurance policy includes the following coverages: Damage to “covered property” at the location named in the policy. Expediting expenses, to cover the costs needed to get insured equipment operational as fast as possible, such as expedited shipping and making temporary repairs. Business income and extra expense. Similar to coverage you should […]
June 13, 2022
Social inflation—the impact of rising litigation on insurers’ costs—increased claim payouts for commercial auto insurance liability alone by over $20 billion between 2010 and 2019. This is according to a new paper by Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I), in partnership with the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS). The Triple-I/CAS paper, Social Inflation and Loss Development confirms and […]
May 24, 2022
Equipment Breakdown insurance — formerly called Boiler & Machinery insurance — covers much more than boilers and machinery. Insurers introduced boiler and machinery coverage in the mid-1800s to cover valuable steam-powered machinery from explosion or breakdown, and to cover the equipment’s owner from liability for resulting property damage or bodily injury. Today, few businesses use […]
May 14, 2022
An article in the May 2022 issue of National Underwriter by Daniel Turgel outlines “How artificial intelligence [AI] is moving the insurance industry in a bold, new direction.” In the past, the expectation of an accident occurring at some point was pretty much the main reason motivating a business owner to buy insurance. Until the […]
April 15, 2022
The short answer is, To protect insureds from cybersecurity risks. Cybersecurity is no longer the emerging risk it was just a few years ago. Rather, it is a clear and present risk for organizations of all sizes, said panelists at the Insurance Information Institute’s (Triple-I) Joint Industry Forum (JIF). This is in large part because […]
March 15, 2022
Several extraordinary events have taken place in the past few years that will influence the role of insurance for many years to come. Boston-based Risk Strategies Co. has identified these events in their latest “State of the Market Report” They are: The COVID-19 global pandemic, impacting businesses across every sector. The rise in frequency and […]
January 14, 2022
In June, plaintiffs were awarded a $222 million verdict against a power company in Kansas for a plant operator killed in a steam accident. In the same month, a jury awarded a bar patron in Illinois $22 million when an employee forcibly removed him from the bar and dropped him on his head, fracturing his […]
