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28 12, 2020

Applied Underwriters Hires 3 from AIG to Lead New Fine Art and Collectibles Business Unit

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Insurer Applied Underwriters has named three executives from AIG’s Private Client Group to develop its new Applied Fine Art and Collectibles business unit that is based in New York. Ronald Fiamma will serve as president of Applied Fine Art and …

28 12, 2020

After Year’s Best IPO, Lemonade Insider Selling Lockup Expiration May Pressure Stock

By | December 28th, 2020|Uncategorized|Comments Off on After Year’s Best IPO, Lemonade Insider Selling Lockup Expiration May Pressure Stock

The best-performing listing of 2020 is poised to enter the new year with extra volatility after insider selling restrictions expire this week. Insurance provider Lemonade Inc. is trading more than 350% above its July 1 initial public offering price, the …

28 12, 2020

Insurance Journal’s Top 10 (+1) Most Read Stories of 2020- National Region

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There were, of course, recurrent topics and themes– from the coronavirus to business interruption to cyber to acquisitions to the Trump Administration to hurricanes — that dominated property/casualty insurance national news in 2020. At the same time, certain individual national …

28 12, 2020

Drug Firms Win Court Bid Halting White House Rule Aimed at Lowering Drug Prices

By | December 28th, 2020|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Drug Firms Win Court Bid Halting White House Rule Aimed at Lowering Drug Prices

A late-term maneuver by President Donald Trump to use lower drug prices paid overseas to limit some of Medicare’s own costs suffered a legal setback last Wednesday that appears likely to keep the policy from taking effect before the president …

28 12, 2020

Can Insurance-Related Firms Compel Employees to Get COVID-19 Vaccination?

By | December 28th, 2020|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Can Insurance-Related Firms Compel Employees to Get COVID-19 Vaccination?

The long-awaited and highly anticipated COVID-19 vaccine is here. The first to arrive on the scene, from Pfizer-BioNTech, received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration several days ago. On the heels of that, Moderna’s version got the …

24 12, 2020

Smaller Websites Nervous Over Giant Facebook’s Support for Liability Reform

By | December 24th, 2020|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Smaller Websites Nervous Over Giant Facebook’s Support for Liability Reform

Facebook Inc. says it’s time to rethink the legal immunity that protects it from lawsuits over what users post online, a position that’s leaving smaller websites concerned about the cost of accepting more responsibility for what appears on their platforms. …

23 12, 2020

Google Adds Extra Scrutiny of Its Scientists’ Research on ‘Sensitive Topics’

By | December 23rd, 2020|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Google Adds Extra Scrutiny of Its Scientists’ Research on ‘Sensitive Topics’

Alphabet Inc.’s Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists’ papers by launching a “sensitive topics” review, and in at least three cases requested authors refrain from casting its technology in a negative light, according to internal communications …

23 12, 2020

Walmart Denies U.S. Charges It Fueled Opioid Crisis by Filling ‘Illegitimate Prescriptions’

By | December 23rd, 2020|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Walmart Denies U.S. Charges It Fueled Opioid Crisis by Filling ‘Illegitimate Prescriptions’

The U.S. Justice Department sued Walmart Inc. on Tuesday, accusing the world’s biggest retailer of fueling the opioid crisis in the United States, ignoring warning signs from its pharmacists and filling thousands of invalid prescriptions. In a civil lawsuit in …

21 12, 2020

Walgreens, CVS Lead COVID-19 Vaccination Drive for Nursing Homes

By | December 21st, 2020|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Walgreens, CVS Lead COVID-19 Vaccination Drive for Nursing Homes

The U.S. government and two of the nation’s largest pharmacy chains kick off a nationwide campaign to vaccinate nursing home residents against COVID-19 on Monday, a week after the first vaccines authorized in the country began being administered to healthcare …

22 12, 2020

Insurance M&A Rebound to Continue Into 2021: PwC

By | December 22nd, 2020|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Insurance M&A Rebound to Continue Into 2021: PwC

Insurance mergers and acquisitions (M&A) rebounded from COVID-19 challenges in the second half of 2020. The trend should continue well into 2021 as companies unload non-core assets and purse cost-effective advancements in technology, PwC said in a new report. The …