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The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division acted within its legal authority when adopting enhanced safety and health regulations for…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Two blocks from the Alabama Statehouse, a black wreath hung on the door of Adams Drugs…
New York Attorney General Letitia James has secured $975,000 in penalties from auto insurance company Root over a data breach…
Ne Mexico has the highest rate of uninsured homes in a report that also shows nearly one-in-seven U.S. homes are…
This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. For carriers and agencies that sell Medicare Advantage, Supplement, or…
Reinsurers continued to provide ample casualty reinsurance capacity through the recent January 2025 renewal season—despite concerns about adverse reserve development—however,…
The closure of Britain’s Heathrow Airport is set to affect the global aviation system for days at a cost of…
Federal regulators have cited Tesla for violating workplace safety rules in connection with the electrocution of a worker last summer…
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A maintenance technician alleged on Wednesday that he raised safety issues with the operators of a…
The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry reported its first full-year underwriting gain in four years, fueling a jump in net income…
This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. Social inflation is not a new phenomenon, but…
The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) released a second update on its ongoing investigation into the fatal…
Wall Street brokers have started selling insurers’ claims tied to Los Angeles’ deadly wildfires, which may trigger a payout from…
Munich Re said it has acquired NEXT Insurance, which will become part of the reinsurer’s major primary business, ERGO. The…
A new report identifying commercial litigation waves likely to pick up steam in 2025 highlights one particular theme that could…
A grand jury for Baltimore County has handed down an indictment charging Michael C. Okolo, of Parkville, Maryland, with theft…
Vehicle thefts in the United States recorded their biggest yearly drop in four decades as automakers, mainly Hyundai and Kia,…
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Jio Financial Services Ltd., has reached a preliminary agreement with Allianz SE to form an insurance business…
The Doctors Company, the Napa, California-based physician-owned medical malpractice insurer, announced it has entered an agreement to acquire ProAssurance Corp.…
Major automakers and tech groups on Tuesday called on the Trump administration to take steps to speed deployment of self-driving…
Higher premiums and longer wait times make property owners less satisfied with their insurers. These not-very-surprising results from J.D. Power’s…
Florida insurers, often on the receiving end of insureds’ complaints – in the courts and in the news media –…
The Alabama Department of Insurance has named Nicole Boswell accounting director. Boswell, with the department since 2008, previously was accounting…
The California Department of Industrial Relations made available $25 million in funding for the California Workplace Outreach Project to support…
A lawsuit against New York alleging sexual abuse decades ago was tossed out by the state’s top court Tuesday because…
A California pet food maker has recalled its raw chicken products after they were linked to bird flu infections in…
Spain is bracing for another round of torrential rains after flooding prompted home evacuations, washed away cars and killed at…
This post is part of a series sponsored by Darkhorse Insurance. Getting appointed means that you can sell their insurance…
Finland’s unbroken streak as the world’s happiest country continued for an eighth year while the US fell to 24th place,…
People Moves: Marsh Promotes Barnes as Global Head of Energy & Power, Herring as Team’s Chair Marsh, the insurance brokerage…
A federal criminal complaint was unsealed today charging the Director of United States Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Center for…
Swiss Re is selling its entire 10.05% stake in Definity Financial, the Canadian property/casualty insurer, for C$655 million ($458.1 million)…
Greenpeace used malicious and deceptive tactics to disrupt the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline and keep it from going forward, an…
CRC Group, an independent wholesale specialty insurance distributor in North America, announced the acquisition of Risk Transfer Partners (RTP), a…
A Texas lawmaker is laying the groundwork to create a statewide system that connects all first responders and government agencies…
Crispin Odey was fined £1.8 million ($2.3 million) and banned by the UK’s financial regulator for showing a “reckless disregard”…
A former strip mall mogul was sentenced to five years in prison for orchestrating a fake WeWork Inc. takeover bid…
Austin TX., March 18, 2025 — The Risk & Insurance Education Alliance is proud to announce the launch of the…
Extreme weather last year including typhoons, heatwaves and flooding led to the biggest displacement of people since 2008, and exacerbated…
After years of rising insurance premiums, anger from homeowners, and recent reports about some property insurance carriers’ alleged diverting of…
Concerns about Florida-based insurance carriers masking profits with the help of affiliated companies has spilled across the border into Georgia,…
Coalition, the world’s first active insurance provider designed to prevent digital risk before it strikes, hired Maha Virudhagiri as the…
Investigators found that two key navigation parts failed on a United Airlines flight from Lagos to Washington on January 24,…
SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, 2025 – Comulate’s leading accounting automation platform has reached an industry milestone in record time, now…
U.S. health agencies announced on Tuesday a set of actions and initiatives to ensure the quality, safety, nutritional adequacy and…
The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has launched the DFS Connect platform, a portal that will centralize…
Marsh, the insurance brokerage business of Marsh McLennan, announced the launch of Cyber Echo Encore, an enhancement to its existing…
The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, has asked India’s Supreme Court to quash an order directing the online encyclopedia operator…
Montreal, QC & New York, NY, March 18, 2025 – Sinistar, a full-service insurance technology platform that connects insurers to…
Insurance carriers expecting to add staff in 2025 are largely looking for experienced professionals rather than filling entry level roles,…
Google agreed to pay $28 million to settle a class action lawsuit claiming that it favored white and Asian employees…
The California Insurance Wholesalers Association launched two new initiatives: CIWA Women and an Insurtech Committee. CIWA Women is designed to…
EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants named Matt Allen principal of its private client team. Allen has more than 18 years…
An employee who claims he injured his knee while swinging a club during an employer-sponsored TopGolf event has failed to…
The Trump administration dismissed two Democrats on the US Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, in the latest example of the…
Tesla Inc. was granted approval in California to begin carrying passengers in its vehicles as Elon Musk’s company takes steps…
Baloise Holding AG and Helvetia Holding AG have been exploring a possible combination that could create one of Switzerland’s largest…
As Oklahomans assessed the devastation from wildfires that whipped across the state, damaging or destroying hundreds of homes, officials in…
The U.S. Department of Energy said on Monday it has disbursed $57 million of an up to $1.52 billion loan…
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Liberty Specialty Markets and Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance. A summary of…
A Pennsylvania man who was part of a group that stole paintings by Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock among other…
Megan Garcia says her son would still be alive today if it weren’t for a chatbot urging the 14-year-old to…
A former state correctional officer from Baltimore has been sentenced in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County for felony theft…
The Great Bay Insurance Group, headquartered in West Atlantic City, New Jersey, named Timothy J. Byrne, Jr., president of the…
The head of the U.S. agency that enforces laws banning workplace discrimination on Monday warned 20 major law firms that…
The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, a non-profit advocacy group, is sounding the alarm about a Kentucky bill…
Parametric hurricane coverage provider Vortex Weather has expanded its supplemental hurricane insurance solutions to Hawaii. Vortex’s parametric hurricane coverage provides…
Rokstone, the international speciality re/insurance MGA that is part of the Aventum Group, announced it is expanding its property direct…
For the first time in four years, the U.S. property/casualty industry will finish a year with an underwriting profit. AM…
Unusually vicious and damaging weather across multiple U.S. states spawned violent tornadoes, blinding dust storms and fast-moving wildfires over the…
Australian pension fund Active Super has been fined A$10.5 million ($6.7 million) for making a number of misrepresentations about its…
Small plastic pellets washed up on the east coast of the UK, a week after two ships collided in the…
Allianz SE has agreed to sell its 26% stake in Indian joint ventures for about €2.6 billion ($2.8 billion) to…
Trump administration workforce cuts at federal agencies overseeing U.S. dams are threatening their ability to provide reliable electricity, supply farmers…
US executives are trying to soothe concerns that the Department of Government Efficiency’s contract-slashing spree might hurt profits, saying a…
Donald Trump’s executive order dismantling diversity, equity and inclusion efforts is making waves at international companies in Europe, Asia and…
Florida International University has long been known as a hurricane research center. Think: the famous Wall of Wind, the giant…
When Congress pushed ahead last year with adding 10 new daily flights to Washington D.C.’s Reagan National Airport, the Federal…
This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. After years of watching insurance carriers exit the California property…
Harvard University is imposing a temporary freeze on hiring faculty. Columbia University is grappling with cuts to $400 million in…
A fire on an American Airlines plane after it diverted mid-flight and landed at Denver International Airport sent passengers fleeing…
A Missouri judge has ordered Abbott Laboratories and Reckitt Benckiser unit Mead Johnson to face a new trial over allegations…
James Vickers, the chairman of Gallagher Re International, announced he is retiring on May 31, 2025, after 47 years in…
The Boston area’s public transportation agency is not immune from liability for injuries caused by an assault on a customer…
A man was charged Friday with intoxication manslaughter after five people were killed and several injured in a late-night wreck…
A delivery driver has won $50 million in a lawsuit after being seriously burned when a Starbucks drink spilled in…
The Texas Department of Insurance’s Fraud Unit contributed to investigations landing nearly $58 million in court-ordered restitution last year. According…
Insurance broker Aon plc announced that Eric Andersen has transitioned from his role as president to serve as a senior…
A draft report examining Florida insurers’ relationships with their managing general agents fell through the cracks and was never finished,…
Cable outlet Newsmax Media has paid $40 million to settle allegations it defamed Smartmatic by reporting false claims that the…
A federal judge in Baltimore on Friday rejected the city’s effort to temporarily block the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from…
Violent tornadoes ripped through parts of the U.S., wiping out schools and toppling semitractor-trailers in several states, part of a…
Markel Group said early Monday that Simon Wilson is the new chief executive officer of Markel Insurance. Markel Insurance includes…
Violent tornadoes ripped through parts of the U.S., wiping out schools and toppling semitractor-trailers in several states, part of a…
A Peruvian farmer who says German energy giant RWE’s emissions have contributed to the melting of Andean glaciers, increasing the…
Cyclone Alfred will cost Australia’s March 25 budget at least A$1.2 billion [US$759 million], hit growth and put pressure on…
The FBI and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are warning against a dangerous ransomware scheme. In an advisory…
As cyber insurance rates have begun to stabilize, insurance carriers are seeking more diversification to fuel their underwriting and growth…
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara reappointed members Mitch Steiger and C. Bryan Little to the California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating…
A northern Virginia judge determined embryos are not property that can be divided up, rejecting a previous analysis by the…
