7/22/2020 | This week in Business Insurance Workers Compensation… – Editor
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Pie secures financing for continued comp expansion
Pie Insurance Holdings Inc. has secured $127 million in new financing to continue to expand its small business workers compensation line, the three-year-old insurtech firm announced in a statement Thursday.
Widow not bound by claims release signed by husband
A firefighter’s widow can pursue death benefits despite her husband’s earlier workers compensation settlement agreement releasing the insurer from all future claims made by his dependents.
Insurer failed to prove cause of guard’s fall unexplained
A workers compensation insurer failed to prove that a security guard’s fall that resulted in a hospital treatment for a brain injury was “idiopathic,” or unexplained, the Workers’ Compensation Court of Montana ruled Tuesday in denying a summary judgment to the insurer.
