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The dry, dangerous winds that have kept fire-scarred Los Angeles on edge for days are finally forecast to end —…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama city will pay $750,000 to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit against a police…
The Yarmouth town council voted unanimously this month to remove two town-owned dams on the Royal River and consider fish…
Industry analysts’ early estimates of insurance industry losses for the January 2025 California wildfires have already grown from $8 billion…
Bayer AG’s Monsanto unit stopped making toxic PCBs a half century ago, but the legal fallout lingers even as many…
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Lloyd’s and White Bear Group. Details of these new hires follows…
Lloyd’s syndicate AEGIS London announced the creation of a new Portfolio Solutions division that will focus on following third-party underwriting…
This past year, 2024, was the warmest ever measured for the global ocean, following a record-breaking 2023. In fact, every…
The family of former Leicester soccer club owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha has filed the largest fatal accident claim in English history…
The UK’s push to deregulate its way to growth has got veterans of the last financial crisis worried that it’s…
The forecast for identity theft scams and cybercrime in 2025 is bleak, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).…
The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) promoted Tony Cotto to assistant vice president and counsel for federal and…
Devastating fires in the Los Angeles area are likely to put modest pressure on the U.S. national economy in the…
Assicurazioni Generali SpA and Natixis SA are close to a deal for a joint venture in asset management to cut…
A recent decision and concurring opinion by a Florida appeals court may have upset years of practice and could raise…
A judge has dismissed New York City’s lawsuit seeking to hold Exxon Mobil, BP and Shell liable for misleading the…
Patty Kuderer was sworn in as Washington’s ninth insurance commissioner on Wednesday. She is one of only 11 elected insurance…
A Chambersburg, Pennsylvania soap and detergent manufacturer faces $161,310 in federal penalties after an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)…
Trucordia acquired the insurance business of Boulder Insurance Solutions in Colorado. Boulder Insurance Solutions is full-service brokerage in serving small-…
This post is part of a series sponsored by Darkhorse Insurance. Starting a new insurance agency is a thrilling venture,…
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara expanded emergency insurance protections for Southern California homeowners, adding new ZIP Codes to those already…
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Lockton Re and Westfield Specialty International. A summary of these new…
Enstar Group Ltd., the Bermuda-based legacy acquisition specialist, announced its Lloyd’s syndicate has agreed a ground-up loss portfolio transfer (LPT)…
A report detailing distracted pilots, airport congestion and shortcomings in safety protocols shines new light into the lead up to…
A cyberattack that paralyzed hospitals and clinics in London last year resulted in harm to dozens of patients, leading to…
The owner of a Texas drywall company is set to appear in Travis County District Court on February 12 to…
Fiesta Auto Insurance and Tax Services announced the signing of new a deal to open its latest location in Katy,…
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Monday proposed giving public schools a one-time additional $50 million to spend…
Los Angeles is bracing for critical wildfire conditions again as dry winds scour Southern California, creating the risk of more…
Two months after his law license was suspended and he was charged with illicitly filming renters at his beach property,…
WalkerHughes Insurance, a privately held, founder-led retail insurance brokerage business headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, has acquired Independent Brokers Agency LLC,…
More than two dozen vehicles in a high school parking lot had their windows smashed and were broken into during…
MEMIC Promotes McCracken to VP of Business Intelligence and Analysis The MEMIC Group, headquartered in Portland, Maine, promoted Kaila McCracken…
Clayco, a Chicago-based builder led by billionaire Bob Clark, is positioning itself to grab for more of the boom in…
Amazon.com Inc. is halting some of its diversity and inclusion programs, a move that coincides with activist pressure on US…
Vermont continues to grow its captive insurance industry. The Vermont Department of Economic Development (DED) has reported that 2024 was…
Elon Musk was sued on Tuesday by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which accused the world’s richest person of…
Remember the 2010 The Rent Is Too Damn High campaign by Jimmy McMillan? Some people in New York now think…
Colonial Pipeline Co. shut the largest US fuel pipeline Tuesday to investigate a potential leak in Georgia. The company’s Line…
Cyber, business interruption and natural catastrophes are the top three risks that concern global businesses, according to the Allianz Risk…
War is the top worry wracking the nerves of risk experts surveyed by the World Economic Forum, despite incoming US…
The US Federal Trade Commission has prepared a lawsuit against tractor giant Deere & Co. alleging the company’s agricultural equipment…
President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Tuesday to provide federal support to address massive energy needs for fast-growing…
This month, the minimum automobile liability coverage requirements in North Carolina jumped to 50/100/50, among the highest minimums in the…
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A Hopkinton man was sentenced on Jan. 10, 2025 in federal court in Boston for defrauding the Internal Revenue Service…
Dermatologicals, which include a number of high-priced, private label drugs, account for the biggest share of the total drug spend…
Lincoln-Leavitt Insurance has acquired Pyorre Insurance Agency in California. Pyorre Insurance Agency’s Lakeport office will relocate to Lincoln-Leavitt Insurance’s location…
This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. State-by-state variations of laws, compliance protocols, industry transparency, and general…
The Minneapolis City Council this month approved an agreement with the federal government to overhaul the city’s police training and…
DARAG, a leading legacy acquirer with a focus on the European and UK market, and wefox Insurance AG, the Liechtenstein-domiciled…
The Iowa Insurance Division, a member of the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA), announced last week it has joined…
Units of CVS Health Corp., Cigna Group and UnitedHealth Group Inc. charged significantly more than the national average acquisition cost…
Property and auto insurers in South Carolina can keep non-resident adjusters on the job for at least another 90 days,…
New Orleans officials projected confidence in their security plans as the city prepares to host the Super Bowl and Mardi…
As deadly wildfires continue to rage in Los Angeles, a Republican congressman from Texas says federal lawmakers will consider tying…
Polo Insurance Managers (PIM), the Guernsey based insurance manager business within the PoloWorks group, announced the launch of Clockwork Re…
Online trading firm Robinhood Markets has agreed to pay $45 million to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges over…
Floridians may remember the strange case of Jacksonville businessman Jose Lantigua, who faked his own death in 2013 in an…
Hot, dry winds are pummeling Los Angeles and surrounding areas of Southern California, raising wildfire risks through at least Wednesday…
The European Union’s new digital chief, Henna Virkkunen, suggested the repeated damage to undersea cables in the Baltic Sea couldn’t…
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Families who have sued Alex Jones over his false claims about the Sandy Hook massacre have resolved their disputes on…
Wildfires that have ravaged swaths of Los Angeles could result in losses of as much as $30 billion for the…
Russian insurance company Ingosstrakh said on Friday that U.S. sanctions against it would increase the risk of environmental disasters. The…
Russia has formed a new government commission to coordinate clean up of the biggest spill of oil products in the…
Vermont Mutual, headquartered in Montpelier, Vermont, named company president Mark J. McDonnell as chief executive officer. McDonnell first joined Vermont…
As more policyholders with Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance are statutorily required to purchase flood insurance, another insurance rate-quoting service has…
Navion insurance Associates Inc. has acquired Pegasus Capital & Insurance Services Inc. in California. Pegasus Capital & Insurance Services is…
Workers in U.S. chicken and pork plants face higher risks than other manufacturing workers for musculoskeletal disorders such as carpal…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul last Thursday said she will push for new laws to make it harder for hedge…
A flagship coalition aimed at aligning the asset management industry with global climate goals said it was suspending its activities…
A sinkhole where a Pennsylvania woman fell to her death last month is now being filled with hundreds of cubic…
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by Meta Platforms to avoid a multi-billion dollar class…
The State of Texas on Monday filed a lawsuit against Allstate, alleging the insurance company illegally collects driver data through…
Edison International Inc.’s southern California utility was hit with a lawsuit blaming the energy provider’s equipment for igniting one of…
Lincoln-Leavitt Insurance has acquired Pyorre Insurance Agency in California. Pyorre Insurance Agency’s Lakeport office will relocate to Lincoln-Leavitt Insurance’s location…
A single cow in Mexico and a pest the size of a housefly have held up pens full of Texas-bound…
Aon’s NFP Acquires Irish Human Resources Consultancy and Training Specialist NFP, the New York City-based brokerage and consulting firm and…
The U.S. Department of Labor filed a federal lawsuit on Jan. 6, 2025, as part of its ongoing effort to…
At least two rounds of vicious, dry Santa Ana winds are expected to blast through Southern California early this week,…
Six people who were injured and the father of a man who was killed in the New Year’s truck attack…
To see the toxic legacy of lead mining in the US and understand the complicated task of cleaning it up,…
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Arch Insurance and Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance. A summary of these…
ATLANTA (AP) — Flight cancellations piled up and officials warned of continuing dangerous roads Saturday in the wake of a…
Moody’s Corp. has agreed to acquire CAPE Analytics, which provides geospatial AI intelligence for residential and commercial properties. Moody’s said…
The magnitude of catastrophic events experienced across Canada in 2024 pushed the insured loss total for the region to C$8.5…
BYHALIA, Miss. (AP) — A north Mississippi police officer whose pursuit ended in a crash that killed three people has…
A federal judge last week tripled the damages that Alex Murdaugh’s co-conspirator must pay to Nautilus Insurance Co., bringing the…
New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit to recover $2.2 million worth of cryptocurrency held in digital…
A U.S. appeals court on Friday revived a lawsuit by a conservative group opposed to diversity initiatives in medicine that…
Miller, the London-based specialist re/insurance broker, announced its further expansion into Asia with the launch of Miller Korea, led by…
An oil tanker sailing under the Panamanian flag that ran out of power in the Baltic Sea last week has…
A van delivery entrepreneur whose startup was dubbed the Uber of the moving business was accused of asset-stripping and misappropriating…
Chinese and Indian refiners will source more oil from the Middle East, Africa and the Americas, boosting prices and freight…
A study by researchers at North Carolina State University supports what some critics of federal flood maps have said for…
Airbnb was sued by the U.S. government on Friday over a host’s refusal to rent an apartment to a mother…
What is going on with aviation security? People have been found dead hiding in the wheel wells of planes twice…
Heffernan Insurance Brokers acquired Green Financial in Kirkland, Washington. Fred Green, president of Green Financial, and his team have joined…
A federal judge in Texas on Friday said American Airlines violated federal law by basing investment decisions for its employee…
