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Electric Scooter Providers Plan Selective Expansion, Seeking Scale to Survive
The era of breakneck growth for electric scooter firms is giving way to more selective expansion focused on profits as they face tougher regulations, more demanding customers and wary insurers. Hurt badly by global coronavirus lockdowns last year, companies offering …
POSTED OCTOBER 18, 2021 6:50 AM |
China Urges Development of Accident Insurance, Pension Products for Gig Workers
China’s top banking and insurance regulator said it would encourage insurers to accelerate the development of commercial pension products and accident insurance for gig-economy workers such as couriers and takeout deliverymen. China has in recent years experienced a delivery boom …
POSTED OCTOBER 18, 2021 6:34 AM |
Florida Law Officers Want Change to Workers’ Comp PTSD Law
Three years after first responders in Florida won a hard-fought victory to make mental stress a compensable condition, officers now hope lawmakers can tweak the law to correct some problems. The Florida Police Chiefs Association leaders and law officers from …
POSTED OCTOBER 18, 2021 5:27 AM |
14 Alleged Insurance Fraudsters Arrested in Florida
Fourteen alleged insurance fraudsters are awaiting court action after they were arrested last week in southwest Florida. In Manatee County, south of Tampa, 13 men were caught in a sting operation and charged with contracting without a license and failing …
POSTED OCTOBER 18, 2021 5:22 AM |
Benefits of Vaccine Mandates Outweigh Workers’ Comp Costs of Vaccine Injuries
Vaccinations have served to significantly reduce the spread of COVID-19 in populations with high take-up rates, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC). In the past months, many businesses and public entities have begun to require their employees …
POSTED OCTOBER 18, 2021 5:00 AM |
People Moves: LP Adds DeHart, Pino and Warner in Nevada; Powers-Leavitt Names Woodruff Managing Partner
LP Insurance Services LLC added Deanna DeHart, Courtney Pino and Bryce Warner to the Reno, Nev., employee benefits insurance team. All three brokers will serve employee benefits clients in the northern Nevada community. DeHart is an 18-year industry veteran who …
POSTED OCTOBER 18, 2021 5:00 AM |
‘Lost’ Rolex Watch Turns Up at Washington Jeweler, Owner Faces Fraud Charge
Christopher Michalke, of Seattle, Wash., was charged in King County Superior Court with one felony count of filing a false insurance claim for a $14,753 Rolex watch after an investigation by Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler’s criminal investigations unit. Michalke is …
POSTED OCTOBER 18, 2021 5:00 AM |
Industry Groups Meet at White House on Vaccine Mandate Rule
Several influential industry groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce met White House officials on Friday and raised concerns about labor shortages and coronavirus testing requirements as the administration races to implement a plan to require private-sector workers to be …
POSTED OCTOBER 18, 2021 5:00 AM |
California City Paying $11M to Settle Fatal Crosswalk Crash
Sacramento has paid $11 million to settle a lawsuit after a car hit a boy and killed his grandmother in 2018, one of the city’s largest such payouts. QuiChang Zhu, 72, and her grandson Jian Hao Kuang, 6, were using …
POSTED OCTOBER 15, 2021 7:52 PM |
Texas Bill Would Make Firms Requiring COVID Vaccine Vulnerable To Lawsuits
As Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republican Texas leaders wage a war against vaccination mandates meant to curb COVID-19, a state Senate committee on Oct. 14 advanced legislation that would make any entity, including hospitals, vulnerable to discrimination lawsuits if …
POSTED OCTOBER 15, 2021 4:48 PM |
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