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Always known as the market of innovation, E&S insurers are leveraging flexibility and creativity to help customers solve problems. The excess and surplus market continues to enjoy steady growth while conditions in the standard market remain challenging for insureds. With standard lines carriers raising rates, tightening terms and conditions and pulling back capacity, risk managers…
Amazon.com will face challenges from big retailers during its annual Prime Day promotion, as more merchants piggyback on the multibillion-dollar online sales event. Target, Walmart, Bed, Bath & Beyond, Macy’s and Kohl’s are some top retail chains offering big discounts and promotions to coincide with Prime day, which takes place on Monday and Tuesday this…
Everyone needs to eat — it’s right there at level one on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, after all. But how often do we take the time to think about where our food comes from? What needs to happen to bring us together around the table each night to share our stories and connect with our…
A group of Coca-Cola shareholders are warning that the company’s recent diversity policy would actually require contracted law firms to violate anti-discrimination laws. In a letter dated June 11, the American Civil Rights Project (ACRP) noted that on Jan. 28, the general counsel of Coca-Cola demanded law firms seeking to keep the company as a client…
Airbnb is going to file a lawsuit against a guest that booked a room and hosted a party where a fight broke out in North Dallas, Texas. A group of videos that went viral on Facebook shows a group of young black females aggressively fighting each other on the property. A television set was toppled and…
SEATTLE—Boeing’s newest version of the 737 Max jetliner completed its first test flight Friday in a move that the company hopes will signal improving fortunes for its most important plane. A few hundred employees watched the plane take off from Renton, Washington. As is typical for a first test flight of a new plane, the…
By Katherine Anne Long From The Seattle Times Amazon’s long-awaited Fresh grocery store in Bellevue, Wash., opened Thursday to crowds—and a twist. The company revealed in a surprise announcement earlier this week that the store is the company’s first full-size Fresh grocery equipped with cashierless technology, powered by a vast array of motion-aware ceiling cameras…
If you are going to have someone manage your life savings, you need to make sure you know, like, and trust them. It doesn’t take a lot of time, but it is important to do your due diligence making sure you have the right person for the job.
The data and information available in a workers’ comp claim are vast and, at times, complicated. In the workers’ comp space, inconsistency within the claim is a common issue. Now, we have the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning to not only solve these complications of inconsistency, but to improve the current operations…
