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Investor Lawsuits Push Back on SEC Changes That Gave Firms More Power A new federal approach giving U.S. compan...
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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has reached a settlement with Holloo Farms, a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) in Calhoun County, to resolve allegations that the company violated environmental regulations and improperly discharged a...
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Jury Orders PacifiCorp to Pay $305M in Latest Oregon Wildfire Class Action Verdict An Oregon jury has o...
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Investor Lawsuits Pushing Back on SEC Changes That Gave Firms More Power A new federal approach giving U.S. com...
Posted: Mar 02, 2026
Senators Sound Alarm After New Data Shows Fewer OSHA Inspections, Fine...
Posted: Mar 02, 2026
The four leading development insurer parametric risk pools — Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company (PCRIC), African Risk Capacity (ARC), Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF SPC), and Southeast Asia Disaster Risk Insurance Fac...
Posted: Mar 02, 2026
Zurich Insurance Group announced it has agreed with UK specialty insurer Beazley the terms of an all-cash offer to acquire Beazley for US$10.9 billion. The aggregate cash deal is expected to be funded via existing cash (approximately US$3.0 billion),...
Posted: Mar 02, 2026
Zurich Insurance Group announced it has agreed with UK specialty insurer Beazley the terms of an all-cash offer to acquire Beazley for US$10.9 billion. The aggregate cash deal is expected to be funded via existing cash (approximately US$3.0 billion),...
Posted: Mar 02, 2026
Independent wholesale specialty insurance distributor CRC Group said it has completed its acquisition of Euclid Transactional. New York City-based Euclid Transactional is a managing general agency that specializes in underwriting transactional insura...
Posted: Mar 02, 2026
At least three people — including the suspected gunman — are dead following a shooting early Sunday in downtown Austin, officials said. Fourteen others were injured. The suspected shooter has been identified as 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne, Austin polic...
Posted: Mar 02, 2026
A Louisiana contractor was arrested last week on charges of fraud, filing false public records and forgery. The contractor, Jon Andersen, also received a cease-and-desist letter from Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple. Andersen was arrested...
Posted: Mar 02, 2026
In the days since the US Supreme Court declared most of President Donald Trump’s global tariffs illegal, more than 100 companies filed new lawsuits, underscoring widespread concerns that the administration won’t readily refund the billion...
Posted: Mar 02, 2026
MS Reinsurance (MS Re), a Switzerland-domiciled global reinsurer, has announced that its Group Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO) Charles Goldie will retire, effective 1st April 2026, with Jörg Bruniecki, current CUO, Global Specialty Lines, succeed...
Posted: Mar 02, 2026
An agreement has now been reached for global insurer Zurich to acquire London-headquartered specialist insurer Beazley in an £8.1 billion (USD 10.8bn) all-cash transaction, bringing together “two highly complementary businesses to establish...
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Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (RGA), a global life and health reinsurer, has announced the appointment of Jayson Bronchetti as Executive Vice President, Investments, effective 2nd March 2026. Bronchetti will succeed Leslie Barbi, who...
Posted: Mar 02, 2026
Greenpeace is fighting for its life in North Dakota’s court system, where a judge has decided to order the environmental group to pay an expected $345 million to an energy company whose Dakota Access oil pipeline construction drew protests near...
Posted: Mar 02, 2026
Anthropic PBC’s artificial intelligence chatbot Claude and related consumer-facing applications went down on Monday, with the startup saying it has been grappling with “unprecedented demand” for its services over the past week. Near...
Posted: Mar 02, 2026
INSURANCE-RELATED COURT CASESDigested from case reports published onlineCOURT DECISIONS When seizure transforms into theft DS Avionics Unlimited LLC (DSA) found itself in an unusual situation. DSA delivered its 1964 Piper PA-30 aircraft to a plane me...
Posted: Mar 02, 2026
Marine Insurers Cancel War Risk Cover as Iran Conflict...
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Canada Life, an insurance and financial services company, has completed an £80 million buy-in transaction with the Safeway Pension Scheme, insuring the future benefits of more than 350 deferred members and 1,450 pensioners. The Safeway Pension Sch...
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INSURANCE-RELATED COURT CASESDigested from case reports published onlineCOURT DECISIONS Controlled substance exclusion didn’t control loss In July 2019, Christoffer, son of Denise and Owen Cox (Coxes), visited the home of his friend, Ryan Zinkweg. A...
Posted: Mar 02, 2026
INSURANCE-RELATED COURT CASESDigested from case reports published onlineCOURT DECISIONS Can’t award damages that haven’t been determined Malcolm Wiener (Wiener) faced an insurability problem due to a company’s error after his life insurance coverage...
Posted: Mar 02, 2026
NASCAR racing star Kyle Busch and his wife have settled an $8.5 million lawsuit they brought against Pacific Life Insurance and an insurance agent that alleged the insurer and agent misled the couple and caused them to lose millions of …
Posted: Mar 02, 2026
Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and reproduced in labs to enable major medical …...
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Amid a worldwide resurgence of interest in nuclear energy, cracks are showing in California’s 50-year-old moratorium on the technology as artificial intelligence spikes electricity demand and the state struggles to meet its climate goals. New s...
Posted: Mar 02, 2026
The L.E.A.D. framework [Menopause] is more than personal; it is a silent leadership crisis within organizations. By Meg McKeen, CIC Menopause is clinically defined by the Mayo Clinic as the permanent end of menstruation and fertility due to a change...
Posted: Mar 02, 2026
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, the commercial insurance arm of reinsurance giant Swiss Re, has appointed Robert Kell as Customer & Distribution Manager ANZ, based in Sydney. Kell brings experience across wealth management, insurance and reinsur...
Posted: Mar 02, 2026
True benevolence sets an example in one’s community Agency activities outside of the normal flow of business build teamwork and relationships between and among employees. By Scott Naugle Engaging in random acts of kindness for your local community ha...
Posted: Mar 02, 2026
“Gray zone aggressions” – ambiguous, deniable and strategically choreographed tactics that sit between peace and war – has evolved into a material threat for businesses, warns a new report from The Willis Research Network and Elisabeth...
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Firefighters in southwest Florida on Friday continued battling an expansive blaze on a federal nature preserve as an unusually intense winter drought grips the state. The National Fire has burned more than 25,700 acres — an area larger than Manhattan...
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No one can say for sure Occasionally, states reference suggestions made by the NAIC in statute or rule; however, asserting that those references equate with creating an instrumentality strains credulity beyond the breaking point. By Kevin P. Hennosy...
Posted: Mar 02, 2026
A new federal approach giving U.S. companies more say over which proposals shareholders can vote on at their annual meetings is creating regulatory uncertainty and leading to litigation, activists said. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in...
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Rokstone, the international specialty re/insurance managing general agent, has expanded its casualty capabilities with two senior appointments and the creation of Rokstone Velocity, a dedicated division focused on underwriting complex risks arisin...
Posted: Mar 02, 2026
Amazon’s cloud-computing facilities in the Middle East faced power and connectivity issues on Monday after unidentified “objects” struck its data center in the United Arab Emirates. The objects had triggered a fire on Sunday that fo...
Posted: Mar 02, 2026