Insurance Journal
A ship with 23 containers of radioactive zinc dust is stuck off the coast in the Philippines, unable to unload because there’s no site that has agreed to entomb the offending material, according to a top official. Port authorities aren’t...
Posted: Oct 30, 2025
After Hurricane Beryl devastated Jamaica’s grid last year, officials at the island’s sole utility vowed to fortify it. But the company’s initiatives were only in the planning and early implementation stages when Hurricane Melissa hi...
Posted: Oct 30, 2025
The devastation from Hurricane Melissa came into focus after the record-setting storm moved past Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba with at least 33 deaths and almost $8 billion of damage in its wake. Across the Caribbean, the storm’s powerful winds have...
Posted: Oct 30, 2025
EverPeak Insurance announced the launch of its workers’ compensation solution in Arkansas. “Arkansas is powered by its small business community, and we recognize the critical need for accessible, reliable, and high-quality workers’...
Posted: Oct 30, 2025
Independent adjusters’ claims that some Florida insurance companies had tampered with their damage estimates continue to trickle through courthouses and state agencies, with final resolutions far from certain or still months or years in the fut...
Posted: Oct 30, 2025
Predictions marketplace Kalshi Inc. sued New York’s gaming commission, saying the state agency is overstepping its authority by attempting to regulate sports-betting operations that fall exclusively under federal jurisdiction. In a lawsuit file...
Posted: Oct 30, 2025
Aspire General Insurance Services promoted Bilal Alam to chief financial officer. Alam has been with Aspire since January 2023, joining the firm as chief information officer and most recently serving as chief risk officer, where he oversaw the risk,...
Posted: Oct 30, 2025
A former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school ignored multiple warnings that a 6-year-old student had a gun in the hours before he shot his teacher, an attorney for the teacher said Tuesday as trial opened in the woman’s …
Posted: Oct 30, 2025
Southern California Edison said on Wednesday it would pay several million dollars each to families who lost loved ones in the January wildfires that scorched 14,000 acres in greater Los Angeles and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses. The uti...
Posted: Oct 29, 2025
Starr, a global investment and insurance organization, announced it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire IQUW Group, a specialty insurance and reinsurance business that combines data and analytics with underwriting expertise. Financial terms...
Posted: Oct 29, 2025
A new class-action lawsuit, if successful, could require the California owner of former military munitions bunkers near Edgemont to pay more than $17 million to people who rent the so-called igloos for use as homes or shelters to protect them …
Posted: Oct 29, 2025
A Florida appeals court today struck down the $216 million verdict against John’s Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in the Maya Kowalski negligence lawsuit, a case that had gained worldwide attention and was the subject of a Netflix documen...
Posted: Oct 29, 2025
A Florida appeals court today struck down the $200 million verdict against John’s Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in the Maya Kowalski negligence lawsuit, a case that had gained worldwide attention and was the subject of a Netflix documen...
Posted: Oct 29, 2025
A Florida appeals court today struck down the $200 million verdict against John’s Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in the Maya Kowalski negligence lawsuit, a case that had gained worldwide attention and was the subject of a Netflix documen...
Posted: Oct 29, 2025
Fermi Inc. has signed deals to begin production of four big nuclear-power reactors that would be used for a private data center grid campus in the Texas Panhandle. Shares rose as much as 9% after the announcement and a slew …
Posted: Oct 29, 2025
A Dallas pediatrician has surrendered her medical license, a year after becoming the first target of a law that banned providing gender-transitioning hormones to minors. Last October, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against adolesce...
Posted: Oct 29, 2025
Alliant announced the hiring of John Lapinski as Senior Vice President in its employee benefits group. Based in Michigan, Lapinski will serve a diverse client base throughout the Midwest with a focus on plan design, compliance, cost management, and e...
Posted: Oct 29, 2025
A jury in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday awarded $20 million to the family of a physician who died in 2022, finding that his mesothelioma was caused by his longtime use of Johnson & Johnson talcum powder. Internal company documents and …
Posted: Oct 29, 2025
Data analytics firm Verisk Analytics cut its annual revenue forecast below Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, sending shares down 8.7% in premarket trading. A slowdown in severe weather events weighed on demand for Verisk’s catastrophe risk mo...
Posted: Oct 29, 2025
Verisk Analytics cut its annual revenue forecast on Wednesday and reported third-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates, as mild weather conditions weighed on demand for the data analytics firm’s property claims estimating tool. The compan...
Posted: Oct 29, 2025
Boston-based Indico Data, which offers AI-based automation for insurance operations, has received an investment from Aviva Ventures, the corporate venture capital fund for Aviva, one of the UK’s largest insurers. The amount of the investment wa...
Posted: Oct 29, 2025
Intense rains that stalled over Central Florida unleashed nearly 20 inches (508 millimeters) of rain in 24 hours, triggering dangerous flash floods that stranded cars and inundated roadways, leaving some closed to traffic into Monday. Forecasters sai...
Posted: Oct 29, 2025
Widespread flooding across central Vietnam killed at least nine people and damaged more than 100,000 homes in the tourist hubs of Hue and Da Nang, as the Southeast Asian nation endures another bout of extreme weather. Rainfall in the city …
Posted: Oct 29, 2025
The Trump administration is ruling out selling offshore oil and gas leases along the US East Coast, after its initial plan for auctioning them drew alarm from Republican strongholds in the Southeast. The shift in thinking comes after the White …...
Posted: Oct 29, 2025
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday revived a $2.5 billion lawsuit against drug distributors accused of contributing to an opioid addiction crisis in West Virginia communities, overturning a 2022 victory at trial by the largest drug suppliers in the U.S....
Posted: Oct 29, 2025