Insurance Journal
Credit Suisse’s $440 million London lawsuit against Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp. kicked off on Thursday over losses linked to Greensill Capital, with the collapsed finance firm’s founder Lex Greensill expected to give evidence next...
Posted: Jun 06, 2025
New Zealand Rugby agreed a sponsorship deal with Gallagher insurance that will give the US-based insurance brokerage naming rights on the playing kit of the All Blacks rugby team. Gallagher’s brand will appear on training and match-day shorts o...
Posted: Jun 06, 2025
Significant cyber incidents have tripled in two years in Canada, driven by technological, socioeconomic and geopolitical factors such as the war in Ukraine, according to research from commercial insurer QBE. Disruptive, globally significant and succe...
Posted: Jun 06, 2025
A group of seven Democratic senators on Thursday introduced sweeping air safety legislation after a fatal collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet in January near Reagan Washington National Airport killed 67 people....
Posted: Jun 06, 2025
While images of wildfires capture their ferocity, data can provide insight into how bad a fire season is. Such is the case with two graphics, powered by satellite data, that showcase a Canadian wildfire season off to a wild — …
Posted: Jun 06, 2025
State, city and U.S. Coast Guard crews of more than 100 people worked overnight to contain and clean up a 2,000-gallon diesel fuel spill in Baltimore’s harbor. On Wednesday at 11 a.m., first responders received what Johns Hopkins Hospital belie...
Posted: Jun 06, 2025
Russian flag carrier Aeroflot expects to sign settlement deals with Western insurers and leasing firms on the last 36 planes from a total of 228 aircraft it agreed to buy, Aeroflot head Sergei Aleksandrovski told Russian newspaper Kommersant. Aircraf...
Posted: Jun 06, 2025
In a hulking grey building just east of Tiananmen square in Beijing, a small team in China’s Ministry of Commerce is deciding the fate of the global auto industry, one rare earth magnet export permit at a time. China holds …
Posted: Jun 06, 2025
Before becoming a parent, I thought I could plan for everything. There are books, blogs and apps galore. My prediction was that I could stay ahead of the chaos if I studied, prepared enough and followed the proper steps. Then …
Posted: Jun 06, 2025
Reddit Inc. sued artificial intelligence firm Anthropic, saying it has used the social media company’s content without permission to train its AI models. The lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday in San Francisco Superior Court, alleges that Anthr...
Posted: Jun 06, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday spared two American gun companies from a lawsuit by Mexico’s government accusing them of aiding illegal firearms trafficking to drug cartels and fueling gun violence in the southern neighbor of the United Stat...
Posted: Jun 06, 2025
South Florida residents will likely remember Aaron Hirschhorn, the successful Miami entrepreneur who launched a dog-sitting service then won a big investment for a stem-cell therapy for dogs when he appeared on the “Shark Tank” TV show in...
Posted: Jun 06, 2025
For residents of this quaint tourist town on the northern edge of Napa Valley, the threat of wildfire is seldom out of mind. The hillside bears burn scars from a 2020 fire that forced all of Calistoga to evacuate, and …
Posted: Jun 06, 2025
Los Angeles County agreed to pay $2.7 million to a teenager who was attacked by at least six other young people at a juvenile detention center in so-called “gladiator fights” that were allegedly facilitated by probation officers. The boy&...
Posted: Jun 06, 2025
A group of four men broke into a historic New York lighthouse along the Hudson River, set a fire and vandalized the interior, destroying valuable antiques, furniture and other items. The Tarrytown Lighthouse in Sleepy Hollow, built in 1883 and …...
Posted: Jun 06, 2025
One of the things I love about the insurance business is that anyone—regardless of where they start—can build a meaningful, lifelong career. I am proof of that. In our industry, your ability to reach your potential is a function of …
Posted: Jun 06, 2025
A school system in Connecticut that’s at the center of an ongoing legal fight over allowing transgender student athletes to participate in competitive girls’ sports is being investigated by the Trump administration, the U.S. Department of...
Posted: Jun 06, 2025
This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. Cargo theft reached an all-time high in 2024 – up 26% from 2023, with total reported losses of $455 million. The average estimated value per theft rose 7.7% …
Posted: Jun 05, 2025
Monarch E&S Insurance Services acquired Market Finders Inc. in Albuquerque, New Mexico. MFI is a managing general agent and wholesale broker founded in 1971. MFI specializes in both personal and commercial lines, including transportation risks. T...
Posted: Jun 05, 2025
Insurity, a provider of cloud-based software for property and casualty insurance carriers, brokers, and MGAs, today announced that The Builders Group (TBG) has successfully gone live on Insurity Workers’ Comp Suite. This milestone signifies the...
Posted: Jun 05, 2025
RT Specialty, a wholesale distributor of specialty insurance products and services and the wholesale broking specialty of Ryan Specialty, announced that it has opened an office in Detroit and hired David Derigiotis as EVP and office president. Derigi...
Posted: Jun 05, 2025
One person has died after severe weather tore through parts of the central U.S., including heavy rain in Dallas, a tornado that touched down in the Kansas City area and flash flooding in Kansas that forced firefighters to rescue dozens …
Posted: Jun 05, 2025
BlackRock Inc. was removed from Texas’ blacklist of companies that boycott fossil fuels, ending a three-year standoff over the environmental policies of the world’s largest asset manager. The move means pension funds and other state-run i...
Posted: Jun 05, 2025
If Stargate’s first AI data center is completed next year as planned, the 900-acre site will need enough round-the-clock electricity to support 300,000 homes. But securing that power isn’t as simple as plugging into the grid. Unlike arch...
Posted: Jun 05, 2025
Corporate investigators found evidence that Chinese hackers broke into an American telecommunications company in the summer of 2023, indicating the country’s attackers penetrated the US communications system earlier than publicly known. Investi...
Posted: Jun 05, 2025