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Posted: Aug 16, 2024
Shipping containers bound for Thailand allegedly filled with tons of hazardous industrial waste from Albania are now slated to return to Europe, after environmental groups sounded the alarm they were being illegally exported to Southeast Asia. An A.P...
Posted: Aug 16, 2024
Ernesto strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane as it plowed northward toward Bermuda, threatening to drench the British territory with heavy rain and unleash flash floods. The storm was 410 miles (660 kilometers) south-southwest of Bermuda accordin...
Posted: Aug 16, 2024
Arch Mortgage Insurance Company (Arch MI) has obtained over $203 million of indemnity reinsurance on a pool representing approximately $30.5 billion of mortgages from Bellemeade Re 2024-1 Ltd., its Bermuda special purpose reinsurer. This transacti...
Posted: Aug 16, 2024
The World Health Organization has declared that an outbreak of mpox, a viral infection that spreads through close contact, represents a global health emergency for the second time in two years. Here’s what that means. WHAT IS A GLOBAL HEALTH &#...
Posted: Aug 16, 2024
DUAL, the specialist underwriting arm of Howden Group Holdings, has announced the appointment of Scott Noerr as Chief Information Officer (CIO) to drive the company’s technology initiatives. In his new role, Noerr will primarily focus on driving i...
Posted: Aug 16, 2024
Changes in the mpox virus are just the latest challenge facing disease trackers trying to contain an outbreak of the virus that’s become a global health emergency. The surge of cases is centered in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a …
Posted: Aug 16, 2024
The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) and the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA), representing the insurance sector and urban planning professionals respectively, are calling on governments at all levels to address growing housing challenges...
Posted: Aug 16, 2024
What’s in a name? Thousands of dollars, a lost job, denied insurance coverage and the possibility of a suspended law license for a Mississippi workers’ compensation attorney, apparently. It all has to do with injured workers – both named...
Posted: Aug 16, 2024
Oliver Wyman, a global management consulting firm and a business of Marsh McLennan, has announced the appointment of Paul Ricard as the new Asia-Pacific (APAC) Head of Insurance and Asset Management, effective immediately. In his new role, Ricard...
Posted: Aug 16, 2024
A federal judge in Florida has temporarily blocked a U.S. Federal Trade Commission rule that would ban agreements commonly signed by workers not to join their employers’ rivals or launch competing businesses, becoming the second judge to rule t...
Posted: Aug 16, 2024
Chevron Corp. is to pay Richmond City Council $550 million over 10 years, the city said in a statement, in a settlement that saw it drop a proposed ballot on a new tax on the oil major’s Richmond refinery. Richmond …
Posted: Aug 16, 2024
All-Star Dearica Hamby sued the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) and her former team in federal court Monday regarding her treatment from the Las Vegas Aces while pregnant. Hamby’s lawsuit alleged the Aces discriminated and...
Posted: Aug 16, 2024
An owner of a now defunct trucking company agreed to plead guilty on Tuesday to federal charges related to a deadly crash in New Hampshire that killed seven motorcyclists. Dunyadar Gasanov, 39, pled guilty in Springfield, Massachusetts to three count...
Posted: Aug 16, 2024
As industrywide auto insurance loss costs appear to be moderating, consumers continue to shop policies at elevated rates, according to the latest quarterly Insurance Personal Lines and Perspectives report from TransUnion. The American consumer credit...
Posted: Aug 16, 2024
The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division fined a building materials supplier $92,226 for repeatedly failing to protect workers from potential fall hazards. The citation issued to ABC Supply Co. Inc. followed an inspection of a jobsite in Sa...
Posted: Aug 16, 2024
Maine utility regulators unanimously rejected on Tuesday an electric utility’s proposal to proactively report high consumption that signals a marijuana growing operation to law enforcement officials in an attempt to aid police crackdown on illi...
Posted: Aug 16, 2024
A home builder is not covered under the property damage coverage in its commercial liability policy for construction defects for which it was responsible. A three-judge panel of the Massachusetts Appeals Court has held for the first time that “...
Posted: Aug 16, 2024
Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) play a crucial role beyond price negotiations, focusing on clinical management, network strategies, and service. Effective PBMs manage costs, enhance care, and ensure transparency and security, addressing unique wo...
Posted: Aug 15, 2024
An agency is considering adding language in its agent of record (AOR) letter advising that the agency is not responsible for any deficiencies that exist in the coverage until it has a reasonable chance to review the coverages.
Posted: Aug 15, 2024
Technology can help attract and retain top talent, and as the organization gains a reputation for innovation, it will become more attractive to future candidates.
Posted: Aug 15, 2024
The Latest Launches from LexisNexis, Enlyte, Qover LexisNexis Risk Solutions,...
Posted: Aug 15, 2024
The enhanced workers' compensation claims program leverages data and predictive analytics to help better understand the person as a whole and how The Hanover can best support recovery.
Posted: Aug 15, 2024
Landmark Admin is featured in our upcoming report on life and annuity MGAs.
Posted: Aug 15, 2024
Fewer High Tide Days Predicted Through April 2025 After record-breaki...
Posted: Aug 15, 2024
California Allows Chinese Robotaxi Firm WeRide to Test With Passengers China-based autonomous dr...
Posted: Aug 15, 2024
Insurance Business Magazine - US
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Insurance Business Magazine - US
Posted: Aug 15, 2024
Insurance Business Magazine - US
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Insurance Business Magazine - US
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Coverage is underwritten by Canopius.
Posted: Aug 15, 2024
Effective September 4, 2024.
Posted: Aug 15, 2024
The startup currently has 100 brokerage clients and 2,500 users.
Posted: Aug 15, 2024
Ruling Bars Insurers From Pursuing Defendants in $4B Maui Wildfire Settlement A Maui judge's ruling Tue...
Posted: Aug 15, 2024
This approval concludes an 18-month process.
Posted: Aug 15, 2024
Report: Battery EV Collision Claims Continu...
Posted: Aug 15, 2024
The new offering will become available in early September.
Posted: Aug 15, 2024
Is your agency a Best Place to Work? Then it’s time to nominate your agency for Insurance Journal’s “Best Agency to Work For” award. To nominate your agency, you must be a current employee of the agency you are nominating. ...
Posted: Aug 15, 2024
A federal workplace safety investigation has found that a metro-Chicago carpentry contractor with a long history of exposing employees to potentially deadly hazards again ignored regulations to protect workers from falls. For the seventh time since 2...
Posted: Aug 15, 2024