Insurance Journal
Hurricane Erin has re-intensified after moving past Puerto Rico, with the dangerous storm expected to increase in size and remain over the ocean as it churns off the US East Coast later this week. Erin’s top winds strengthened to 130 …
Posted: Aug 18, 2025
Hurricane Erin has re-intensified after moving past Puerto Rico, with the dangerous storm expected to increase in size and remain over the ocean as it churns off the US East Coast later this week. Erin’s top winds strengthened to 130 …
Posted: Aug 18, 2025
Hurricane Erin has re-intensified as it moves past the Bahamas, with the dangerous storm expected to increase in size and remain over the ocean as it churns off the US East Coast, battering beaches later this week. Erin’s top winds …
Posted: Aug 18, 2025
Hurricane Erin will likely become even larger as it churns past the Bahamas, avoiding land but raising the risk of high winds and flooding hundreds of miles away along North Carolina beaches. Erin’s top winds measured at 140 miles (225 …
Posted: Aug 18, 2025
The Texas attorney general is investigating utility Xcel Energy Inc. and its contractor for two wildfires that devastated the state last year, saying the companies may have prioritized environmental and diversity goals over maintenance and safety. &#...
Posted: Aug 18, 2025
Approximately 81% of insurance companies expect to increase their revenue in the next 12 months, but only about 53% expect to increase their staff in that same period, according to a new insurance labor market outlook study from The Jacobson …
Posted: Aug 18, 2025
A September trial for a Tampa woman charged with posing as an insurance agent and keeping thousands of dollars in auto insurance premiums has been postponed until December. Katrenia Lynette Harris, 54, was indicted by a federal grand jury in …
Posted: Aug 18, 2025
A fourth person has died in connection with a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in New York City, health officials disclosed Thursday as they revealed that some cooling towers that tested positive for the bacteria are in city-run buildings. The ou...
Posted: Aug 18, 2025
A fourth person has died in connection with a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in New York City, health officials disclosed Thursday as they revealed that some cooling towers that tested positive for the bacteria are in city-run buildings. The ou...
Posted: Aug 18, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring banks not to discriminate against clients on political or religious grounds could create uncertainty and administrative headaches for the industry, sources said. Trump signed an executive...
Posted: Aug 18, 2025
The Mechanic Group Appoints Chieppo Practice Leader The Mechanic Group, a division of Specialty Program Group LLC (SPG) headquartered in Pearl River, New York, appointed Candace Chieppo as practice leader. She is responsible for delivering coverage a...
Posted: Aug 18, 2025
Preparations for a routine maintenance task may have led to an explosion at a U.S. Steel coal-processing plant near Pittsburgh that left two dead and sent 10 to hospitals, the company said Friday. U.S. Steel said it developed the information, …
Posted: Aug 17, 2025
Mercury Insurance said it has submitted a filing based on California’s new regulation enabling catastrophe modeling to be included as a factor in ratemaking. The filing is reportedly the first to use the Verisk Wildfire catastrophe model, which...
Posted: Aug 15, 2025
The U.S. Justice Department said on Friday it has sued California in a bid to end the state’s enforcement of emissions standards for trucks. The DOJ said it filed two complaints this week in federal courts against the California Air …
Posted: Aug 15, 2025
Inside the world’s largest climate coalition for banks, there’s speculation that an exodus led by Wall Street could be about to spread to the European Union. The Net-Zero Banking Alliance, an organization dedicated to decarbonizing global...
Posted: Aug 15, 2025
Higginbotham announced it has partnered with Roehr Insurance, one of the largest property and casualty insurance agencies in Cincinnati, Ohio. The partnership grows Higginbotham’s presence in the Midwest and provides Roehr with expanded resourc...
Posted: Aug 15, 2025
OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman wants to spend trillions of dollars over time on the infrastructure required to develop and run artificial intelligence services. He just needs to figure out a way to raise that kind of money. “You R...
Posted: Aug 15, 2025
All signs point to a slowdown of the Texas economy as job growth slows, construction declines and inflation ticks up, according to a Monday report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. The report on the Fed’s recent Texas Business …
Posted: Aug 15, 2025
A Texas school bus carrying more than 40 students on Wednesday rolled over after veering off a rural road on the first day of class, injuring multiple students, authorities said. At least one person has life-threatening injuries, while two others ...
Posted: Aug 15, 2025
Nedra Sims Fears still remembers the night years ago when her family home in Chicago flooded, sparking an electrical fire. Her father woke her up and rushed her outside into the pouring rain as smoke filled the rooms of their …
Posted: Aug 15, 2025
The governor of New Mexico declared a state of emergency in response to violent crime and drug trafficking across a swath of northern New Mexico, including two Native American pueblo communities. The emergency declaration by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grish...
Posted: Aug 15, 2025
Insurance broker Aon Plc was accused in a civil lawsuit of helping cause the collapse of Vesttoo Ltd., an Israeli insurance startup once valued at $1 billion that went bankrupt after disclosing certain documents underpinning its business were falsifi...
Posted: Aug 15, 2025
The Alabama Department of Insurance wants new data on how liability coverage affects insurance claims costs. In a bulletin posted Thursday, Commissioner Mark Fowler said the department has issued a data call to carriers of personal and commercial aut...
Posted: Aug 15, 2025
Nearly a decade after the deadly 2016 floods, West Virginia officials are moving forward with a study to look at flood mitigation measures across the Kanawha River Basin. Last month, Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced that the state will work with ̷...
Posted: Aug 15, 2025
Accenture said on Thursday it will buy Australian cybersecurity firm CyberCX in its largest-ever deal in the sector, with the Australian Financial Review valuing the transaction at more than A$1 billion ($650 million). A wave of devastating cyberatta...
Posted: Aug 15, 2025