Insurance Journal
The state of New Jersey sued Amazon.com on Wednesday, accusing the company of unlawfully refusing workplace accommodations to warehouse employees who have disabilities or were pregnant and firing some who asked for them. The lawsuit filed in New Jers...
Posted: Oct 23, 2025
The recent wave of cyberattacks against Japanese businesses has exposed critical weaknesses in the country’s corporate digital defenses, fueling fears of further disruption to sales and supply chains.In the past month, Asahi Group Holdings Ltd....
Posted: Oct 23, 2025
Tropical Storm Melissa began dumping heavy rain on Hispaniola on Tuesday as forecasters warned of a significant flood risk in parts of the Caribbean region later this week. The rains snarled traffic in the Dominican Republic’s capital, Santo Do...
Posted: Oct 23, 2025
Global commercial insurance rates fell, on average, by 4% in the third quarter of 2025, repeating the 4% decline recorded in Q2 2025, according to the latest Global Insurance Market Index published by Marsh, the insurance brokerage business of Marsh...
Posted: Oct 23, 2025
The River Wye used to be full of wild salmon. Today it is full of algae. And the meandering waterway which has long attracted anglers, hikers and poets is now the subject of a major pollution lawsuit. The case – …
Posted: Oct 23, 2025
New Zealand’s weather agency issued rare red wind warnings and officials declared a state of emergency in the Canterbury region as a powerful spring storm brought destructive gales and heavy rain to the South Island and lower North Island on &#...
Posted: Oct 23, 2025
Insurance industry trades praised a Senate committee for the passage this week of the Fix Our Forests Act, a measure to address high-risk wildfire regions. “The risk of wildfire can no longer be ignored or underestimated. We need action to R...
Posted: Oct 23, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the insurance business. Insurers recognize and are already taking advantage of the manifold ways in which AI can significantly improve their routine processes, decision-making and risk management. At th...
Posted: Oct 23, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the insurance business. Insurers recognize and are already taking advantage of the manifold ways in which AI can significantly improve their routine processes, decision-making and risk management. At th...
Posted: Oct 23, 2025
Insurance data and technology firm Verisk has released a pet health insurance program offering U.S. insurers a standardized pet insurance program. Verisk’s new ISO Pet Insurance Line of Business program provides insurers looking to enter or exp...
Posted: Oct 23, 2025
Reddit Inc. sued Perplexity AI Inc. and three other companies over alleged data scraping from the discussion site without permission, a sign of the growing demand and value of original data in the burgeoning AI industry. Three data scraping companies...
Posted: Oct 23, 2025
Analysts trying to reconcile third-quarter premium jumps reported by line of business for W.R. Berkley Corporation with the CEO’s opening remarks during an earnings conference call this week may well have been confused. “That bloom is off...
Posted: Oct 23, 2025
Authorities were investigating the death of a rail conductor who was hit by a passing train in Montana, the National Transportation Safety Board said. The conductor worked for BNSF Railway, the agency said in a post on the social media …
Posted: Oct 23, 2025
An Iowa man has been charged with one count of acting as an adjuster without a license—a class D felony—following an investigation by the Iowa Insurance Division’s Fraud Bureau. According to criminal complaints filed by the Iowa Insurance Divis...
Posted: Oct 23, 2025
An Iowa man has been charged with one count of acting as an adjuster without a license—a class D felony—following an investigation by the Iowa Insurance Division’s Fraud Bureau. According to criminal complaints filed by the Iowa Insurance Divis...
Posted: Oct 23, 2025
The mass evacuation by military aircraft of hundreds of residents from Alaska villages ravaged by the remnants of Typhoon Halong is complete, and officials and local leaders are turning attention to trying to stabilize damaged infrastructure and hous...
Posted: Oct 23, 2025
A United Airlines plane appears to have collided with a weather balloon while cruising over Utah at 36,000 feet last week, fracturing layers of its windshield and forcing an emergency landing. A California company called Windborne Systems said it sta...
Posted: Oct 23, 2025
A plane carrying passengers from Omaha, Nebraska, to Los Angeles made an emergency landing minutes into the flight “out of an abundance of caution” after pilots mistakenly thought someone was trying to breach the cockpit. The SkyWest Flig...
Posted: Oct 22, 2025
SpaceX has settled a lawsuit filed by the maker of the popular party game Cards Against Humanity over accusations that Elon Musk’s rocket company trespassed and damaged a plot of land the card company owns in Texas. Texas court records …
Posted: Oct 22, 2025
An East Texas groundwater conservation district is negotiating a legal path that would pause a plan to pump billions of gallons of water out of the region. The Neches & Trinity Valleys Groundwater Conservation District is allowing its lawyers to...
Posted: Oct 22, 2025
The 60,000 men and women responsible for keeping American skies safe have gone unpaid throughout the government shutdown. Without a funding agreement soon, many will be forced to dip into savings, rack up credit-card debt, or take on part-time jobs &...
Posted: Oct 22, 2025
North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey this week called for more state and federal assistance after multiple homes on the Outer Banks have collapsed into the ocean in the last two months. “I am urging our Congressional delegation to...
Posted: Oct 22, 2025
Apple Inc. lashed out at the European Union’s attempts to tame the power of Silicon Valley in the most far-reaching legal challenge of the bloc’s Big Tech antitrust rules. The iPhone maker’s lawyer Daniel Beard told the General Cour...
Posted: Oct 22, 2025
The US saw more than $101 billion in losses from severe storms and fires in the first half of 2025, setting a record. That’s according to a database of billion-dollar disasters that a nonprofit has re-launched since the Trump administration ...
Posted: Oct 22, 2025
The recent 15-hour or so outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) again raised questions about the potential for systemic loss to the cyber insurance market, but losses from the temporary lapse in cloud services is not likely to be catastrophic. …
Posted: Oct 22, 2025