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Uncertainty over her career direction led Danielle Polk to learn about an apprenticeship with Zurich American Insurance.

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Cyber fraud based on artificial intelligence-generated audio or visual reproductions, dubbed “deepfakes,” poses an emerging threat to organizations but has yet to lead to significant increases in commercial insurance claims or losses, experts say.

Legislation that would amend New York’s insurance law to allow insurers to offer standalone business interruption coverage that isn’t tied to physical damage could fill a gap in the market.

Artificial intelligence that mines injured workers’ medical and claims records is helping employers and insurers cut costs by spotting difficult or suspicious claims, but the technology remains a tool for claims handlers rather than a replacement.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee — How police officers handle their own mental health and how they interact with individuals suffering from mental illness are the biggest concerns and risks for law enforcement departments, experts say.

Jay Krueger was named CEO of One Call Care Management in 2022, after a one-year stint as president of the company, which provides workers compensation services.

Mergers and acquisitions activity among North America’s insurance agents and brokers continued to slow in the first half of this year, matching levels last observed in 2017.

Work-related injuries or illnesses can be devastating for the employees involved and their families and may in some cases prevent injured workers from returning to their job or working altogether.

Whether you were in the Midwest, the South or even the Northeast, you probably felt the effects as a climate change-fueled heat wave spread across large parts of the U.S. last month, bringing record-high and high-low temperatures.

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The brokerage sector has continued to perform well over the past year, with robust organic growth, as clients expanded operations and insurance rates increased in many lines, driving up commission revenue.

Manipulated videos and audio recordings, or deepfakes, are moving up the list of concerns for cybersecurity professionals.

Chubb Ltd., which in 1969 paid a theft claim on a 1770s Revolutionary War musket stolen from the Valley Forge Historical Society Museum in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, has donated the recovered gun to the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, the insurer said in a statement.

An injured worker should have been permitted to move forward with his third-party negligence lawsuit stemming from a workplace vehicle accident because it was not barred by a workers compensation settlement, a Georgia appellate court ruled Tuesday.

Despite a slowdown in March and June, Florida’s excess and surplus lines market premium volume totaled $9.7 billion in the first half of 2024, up 12% on the prior-year period, according to data issued Tuesday by the Florida Surplus Lines Insurance Office.

Total economic losses from Hurricane Beryl, which swept through the eastern Caribbean earlier this week and is taking aim at Mexico and Texas, are expected to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, but insured losses will likely be significantly lower, according to a report Friday from Aon PLC’s Impact Forecasting.