- On-site health services can reduce employee absence, comp costs
Offering on-site health services is not likely to have a material impact on employers’ medical expenses, but it can be useful in reducing employee absences and workers compensation costs, according to a report by the National Business Group on…
- Health care worker gown, glove procedures key to contamination risks
Better strategies are needed to ensure health care workers don’t come in contact with contaminants while removing personal protective equipment, experts say.
- Insurer can't alter promised policy renewal terms, court rules
A promised insurance contract renewal should have terms that are the same, or nearly the same, as the original contract, says a federal appeals court in reinstating a breach of contract claim filed against an XL Group P.L.C. unit.
- AIG makes commercial insurance executive changes
AIG has made several new appointments in its commercial insurance division.
- Modeling develops for liability catastrophe risks
Modelers are working to use “big data” to identify and measure emerging potential liability catastrophe risks that could lead to mass tort litigation, according to a report released Thursday by Lloyd’s of London and modeling firm…
- Lockton names analytics practice leaders
Lockton Cos. L.L.C. has promoted Justin VanOpdorp to be its first chief analytics officer, while former Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. executive Mark Moitoso has been named senior vice president and analytics practice leader.
- Judge declines to declare mistrial in Dewey & LeBoeuf criminal case
(Reuters) — The attorney representing Joel Sanders, the former chief financial officer of bankrupt law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf L.L.P.
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- Bermuda underwriter expects $50 million in third-quarter disaster losses
Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd. said it expects to sustain about $50 million in total pretax losses related to the Aug. 12 explosion in Tianjin, China, and natural disasters in the third quarter of this year.