Bloomberg / Property Casualty 360 (2/25/2021)
A bipartisan group of senators on Tuesday, Feb 23, recommended that the U.S. consider requiring companies to disclose when they have been hacked.

Risk Management Magazine (2/1/2021)
As COVID-19 vaccines become more available and companies return to the office, employers may want to protect their workforce by mandating vaccinations. However, it is essential that they keep in mind certain risks and how to mitigate them, including the legal limits of what they can ask of employees.

Reuters (2/23/2021)
Top executives at Texas-based software company SolarWinds Corp, Microsoft Corp and cybersecurity firms FireEye Inc and CrowdStrike Holdings Inc defended their conduct in breaches blamed on Russian hackers and sought to shift responsibility elsewhere in testimony to a U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday.

Bloomberg / Insurance Journal (2/23/2021)
Insiders said one company pushed unnecessary pain medication to the U.S. military; another promoted an unproven treatment for children with cancer; and a third used unlicensed counselors to treat poor people with mental illness.

Commercial Risk (2/24/2021)
UK firms have been given an additional six months to comply with mandatory gender pay gap disclosures, as the start date for enforcement action is pushed back from April to October.

Risk Management Magazine (2/9/2021)
Over the last several years, there has been an influx of high-dollar lawsuits focused on how employers should reimburse their workers' vehicle expenses. While litigation has focused largely on delivery driver contexts, there have also been a host of class-action lawsuits pertaining to under-reimbursement across other industries, including pharmaceuticals, retail and consumer goods.

Property Casualty 360 (2/25/2021)
Almost as soon as the pandemic forced portions of the economy to close last March, businesses began filing lawsuits to compel insurance companies to pay business-interruption claims they thought were covered.

Commercial Risk (2/24/2021)
A recent ruling by Germany's Federal Supreme Court, the Bundesgerichtshof (BGH), which overturned a decision made back in 2018, means directors and officers (D&O) in the country will still be able to claim on D&O policies even after their company becomes insolvent.

Canadian Underwriter (2/25/2021)
Even if insurance products were available for pandemic risk specifically, several businesses say they wouldn't anticipate becoming more dependent on risk financing or insurance as a result, according to the results of a global survey from Aon.

RIMS Report
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