News

East

• Judge Sanctions Mountaire in Delaware Wastewater Lawsuit
• Injured Workers Pharmacy Will Pay $11M to Settle Complaint By Mass. AG’s Office
• Utility to Pay $56 Million to Resolve Deadly Massachusetts Gas Blasts Probe
• Maryland Insurance Commissioner Birrane Sees State as Leader in Tech Innovation
• M&T Insurance Agency Benefits from Cyber Risk Analytics Platform Through CyberCube
• Delaware to Close Bars in Beach Towns Due to Virus Outbreak

National

• COVID-19 Treatment Remdesivir to Cost Private Insurers $3,120
• Court Refuses to Open ‘Loophole’ for Cruise Line Lawsuits
• Return-to-Work Safety: Employers Find Testing Employees More Trouble Than It’s Worth
• Hiscox Launches ‘Variable Consortium’ for Hard-to-Place U.S. General Liability Risks
• American Companies Facing Pressure to Reveal Data on Diversity of Employees
• Climate Change Litigants Argue Human Rights, Consumer Harm in Suing Oil Firms
• Congressional Action Plan on Climate Change Applauded by Zurich, IBHS
• U.S. Supreme Court to Consider Child Slavery Appeals by Nestle, Cargill

International

• UK-Based Tech Platform Xchanging Hit by Ransomware Attack
• Heavy Rains Batter China, Raising Flood Alert Levels for Cities on Yangtze River
• Torrential Rains Cause Floods in SW Japan, with Nearly 40 Feared Dead
• ‘G4’ Swine Flu Virus Is Not New, Does Not Easily Infect Humans: China
• Canopius Launches Cyber Property Product to Address Silent Cyber Gap
• UK’s Aviva Names Former Zurich Exec Blanc as CEO, Succeeding Tulloch
• UK Accounting Watchdog Asks Big Four to Ring-Fence Audit Practices
• Climate Change Litigants Argue Human Rights, Consumer Harm in Suing Oil Firms
• Legacy Specialist Compre Signs 2nd Transaction with QBE