The BI Top 10: Week of Oct. 14, 2019

This week’s most popular stories include EPIC buying a rival PE-owned brokerage, commercial insurance prices forecast to keep rising, Woodruff Sawyer hiring a former Willis Towers Watson team, a former Lyft risk manager joining Willis and more.

1. EPIC buys rival private-equity-owned brokerage

2. Commercial insurance prices set to keep rising into 2020

3. Woodruff Sawyer hires former Willis Towers Watson team

4. Former Lyft risk manager joins Willis Towers Watson

5. Brown & Brown unit buys professional liability specialist

6. Ransomware hacks soar: Chubb

7. Berkshire sells Applied Underwriters to founder in $920 million deal

8. Large med mal verdicts drive hospital liability up

9. Liberty Mutual accused of inflating comp premiums

10. Jury awards disabled Walmart worker $52 million 

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