Loss Control

A look at some important ways YouTube and social media can help insurers seeking recovery around property-damage and product-defect claims.

The use of social-media sites has surged at a record-breaking pace over the past few years, and they are now used by employees and employers in almost every workplace—a development that has opened new vehicles for harassment, discrimination and employment-related defamation.

Employers and their insurers will have a new tool, grounded in the science of human behavior, available to assess an organization’s vulnerability to employment practices liability lawsuits when Montage Analytics officially rolls out its EPL Risk Index later this year.

What are the most relevant factors that make businesses vulnerable to significant damages from employment practices risk? Kathleen Long, co-founder and CEO of Montage Analytics, which is rolling out the EPL Risk Index later this year, says employees’ perceived lack of “organizational justice” and poor employee appraisal processes are among...

What are the most relevant factors that make businesses vulnerable to significant damages from employment practices risk? Kathleen Long, co-founder and CEO of Montage Analytics, which is rolling out the EPL Risk Index later this year, says employees’ perceived lack of “organizational justice” and poor employee appraisal processes are among...

The Montana Supreme Court has upheld a Workers' Compensation Court ruling that a man mauled while feeding the bears at a tourist attraction should be covered by workers' comp, despite the fact the man had smoked marijuana on the day of the attack.

Companies’ risks are increasing during the economic recovery, which means they must be vigilant in keeping down workers’ compensation claims and wage and hour lawsuits, according to an industry briefing.

By the end of next year, insurers and reinsurers doing business in the European Union will have to demonstrate to regulators there that they have sufficient…