How fast can agents get a business insurance quote online? Through Coterie, agents can receive bindable small business insurance quotes in under 2 minutes for eligible businesses. The speed comes from automated underwriting that evaluates risk in real time, rather than routing submissions to a manual review queue. Are quotes bindable or just estimates? Coterie quotes are bindable. When you see a quote on screen, you can accept it, collect payment, and issue the policy without waiting for additional underwriter approval. Preliminary indications or soft quotes that need further review are a different product entirely, and Coterie does not operate that way for standard eligible risks. What…
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The ruling maintains access to mifepristone while litigation continues. The drug can still be prescribed at pharmacies or by mail without requiring in-person visits.
NASHVILLE — The future of property-casualty insurance is here and it looks a lot like … a devoted personal assistant for the policyholder, one that moves at lightning speed and never complains or takes a day off. “You want your customer personalization to really come across as a concierge service,” said Russell Page, chief information officer for Hagerty, an insurer that specializes in coverage for classic cars and specialty vehicles. Page Page spoke this week at the Insurance Innovators USA annual conference in Nashville. He and others stressed that rapidly evolving technology, including artificial intelligence systems, while far from perfect,…
he share of women on the boards of mid-sized and large public companies dipped below 30% in the first quarter, missing that threshold for the first time since 2024, and down from a peak of 30.4% a year ago. In all, women held 29.9% of board seats at Russell 3000 Index companies in the first three months of the year. During that period, womengained 138 seats and lost 83, for a net increase of 55 seats. But that was offset by a net gain of 186 board seats for men, according to a study scheduled to be released Tuesday by…
The American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) last night recognized KFF’s Mollyann Brodie, Ph.D., with the AAPOR Award for Distinguished Achievement for her outstanding leadership and contributions to the field of public opinion research over three decades. The award honors Dr. Brodie, a KFF executive vice president and executive director of KFF’s Public Opinion and Survey Research, for leading KFF’s polling team as it has built a body of work “that has become the nation’s definitive source for public opinion on health — earning the confidence of policymakers, journalists, and the public alike.” The association notes Dr. Brodie’s role in…
Stomach bugs on cruise ships recently hit a nearly two-decade high as more people than ever board the vessels, underscoring how easily viruses spread on contained voyages. While cruises are in a global spotlight after a rare hantavirus outbreak killed three people on an ocean liner since April, mild gastrointestinal illnesses are far more common on ships. They have risen for the last four years to the highest since 2007, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vessel Sanitation Program. The data tracks ships with 13 or more passengers with foreign itineraries that dock at one…
On the last day to vote on bills, the New Hampshire House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at reducing liability insurance costs for care professionals. Senate Bill 614 establishes “multiple-caregiver self-insured risk coverage arrangements” for childcare, day care, foster care, and behavioral health services programs and providers. The bill would create a formal agreement between two or more of these providers, managed by the Department of Insurance, in which each business would pay into a fund that could be jointly used for self-insurance against liability risks, joint insurance purchases, legal fees, and more. The goal is to allow servicers…
Lake Tahoe has long been a refuge for Silicon Valley’s tech elite, from Mark Zuckerberg to Larry Ellison. Now the artificial intelligence boom behind much of that wealth is straining the region’s power market, pushing up costs for residents in the lakeside towns below. Energy-hungry data centers across the border in Nevada are adding pressure to the market serving roughly 50,000 electricity customers on the California side of the lake. By the local utility’s own sample-bill calculation, the cost of keeping the lights on at home has surged about 77% since late 2022 — approaching twice the national residential average.…
A Georgia insurance agent whose license expired a year ago has been charged with diverting workers’ compensation premiums from businesses and providing falsified certificates of insurance. Lucy Margarita Suarez, 33, of Dalton, Georgia, was arrested in Miami and returned to Whitfield County, Georgia, news sites reported. Suarez, owner of EliteOne Solutions in Dalton, is charged with insurance fraud and forgery, the state Board of Workers’ Compensation told news outlets. The board’s investigation found that the alleged premium theft left clients without comp coverage. More victims and additional charges may be added as the investigation continues. Georgia’s license records show that…
The City National Rochdale Select Strategies Fund delivered a net return of 11.27% for the year ended January 31st 2026 and its investment adviser said demand for industry-loss warranty (ILW) protection has been elevated, leading it to expect promising opportunities for 2026 portfolio construction.The City National Rochdale Select Strategies Fund is a mutual insurance-linked securities (ILS) strategy focused on industry loss warranties (ILWs) and catastrophe bonds, that invests the majority of its assets into NB RE Ltd., a Bermuda based structure whose origination and management falls to global asset manager Neuberger Berman’s specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment team. The City…
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is caught between his Make America Healthy Again supporters who want him to do more to advance their priorities, including curtailing vaccines, and a White House trying to combat President Donald Trump’s unpopularity. Protesters’ chants could be heard from inside the Cleveland City Club, where Kennedy was speaking to a bipartisan group of citizens as part of his recent tour of northern Ohio. His calls for parents to have more “choice” on vaccinating their children was met with applause from half of the room. The other half released exasperated sighs and…
Finland warned the public of drones possibly entering its airspace, for the first time near Helsinki, in the early hours of Friday. Flights were disrupted at the country’s biggest airport, Helsinki-Vantaa, and about 1.8 million residents of southern Finland were told to remain indoors after overnight Ukrainian strikes on Russia near Finland prompted concern that unmanned aircraft had strayed into the country. The emergency warning was issued at 3:49 a.m. local time and lifted about three hours later. Authorities have “no information or observations” indicating that drones actually entered Finnish territory, Kari Nisula, operations chief of the Finnish Defense Forces,…
Vice President JD Vance this week announced new steps in the Trump administration’s initiative to root out fraud in federal health programs, including a $1.3 billion deferral in Medicaid funding to California. “How long are people going to pay into programs if they know that that money doesn’t go to a low-income kid who needs healthcare, but that money goes into a fraudster getting rich?” Vance said during an event at the White House, adding that taxpayers and program beneficiaries are victimized by such fraud. The Republican administration also is imposing a six-month freeze on some new Medicare enrollments and…
The operator of the massive cargo ship that struck Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge is now facing criminal charges for actions leading up to and after the crash that killed six people more than two years ago. The Dali container ship’s power loss caused it to lose propulsion and steering and ram into the bridge’s supports, leading to the deadly collapse and closing Baltimore’s port for months. In addition to the new charges announced Tuesday, the companies that own and operate the ship have faced a slew of legal challenges, many of which have been resolved with settlements. Maryland officials…