Insurance Journal

Kansas Sues Snapchat for Deceptive Practices

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach announced that his office filed a lawsuit in Washington County District Court against social media company, Snap, Inc., the creator of the SnapChat platform. The lawsuit alleges that Snap has engaged in deceptive a...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

People Moves: USG Names Hernandez as Underwriter in Texas Office

USG Insurance Services, Inc. is pleased to welcome Jeremy Hernandez as an underwriter in its Houston, Texas office. Hernandez will be working under the leadership of Jodi Berger, Executive Vice President: Regional Manager. Hernandez brings with him a...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Louisiana Farm Bureau Approved for Double-Digit Auto Rate Decrease

One of the largest auto insurers in Louisiana is implementing a double-digit rate decrease. Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple has approved Louisiana Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company’s request for an 11.8% rate decrease, which ta...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Viewpoint: Avoid Data Indigestion With Harmonization

Insurance agencies and brokerages are drowning in data. It flows in from clients and prospects, through client servicing teams, and out to carriers, who also send back data for agents and brokers to process. Like many industries, ingesting data effic...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Brown & Brown Announces Roles Related to Risk Strategies Integration

Brokerage Brown & Brown announced updates to its retail segment leadership team as part of its ongoing integration efforts following the acquisition of Risk Strategies. The leaders from Risk Strategies listed below will join the existing retail s...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Florida Reforms Are Truly Making a Difference, Gallagher Re Report Finds

If Florida’s insurance market needed more indication that 2022 legislative reforms have made a big difference in the cost of doing business in the state, one of the biggest names in reinsurance has provided it. “Clearly, it is time for &#...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Georgia High Court Sides with Slave Descendants on Island Zoning Changes

Georgia’s highest court on Tuesday sided with Black landowners in a fight over zoning changes that weakened long-standing protections for one of the South’s last Gullah-Geechee communities founded by freed slaves. The state Supreme Court...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

People Moves: California Commissioner Makes COIN Advisory Board, Curriculum Board Appointments

California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara appointed Veronica Saldaña as the newest member of the California Organized Investment Network advisory board and Jason Meyerson to the curriculum board of the California Department of Insurance. COIN wa...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

People Moves: Protecdiv Promotes DelaCruz to Head of Analytics

Protecdiv Promotes DelaCruz to EVP. Head of Analytics Insurance and reinsurance brokerage Protecdiv, headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, promoted Cate DelaCruz to executive vice president and head of analytics at Protecdiv. DelaCruz joined P...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Agent Allegedly Duped Customer into Agency Investment; Third Time Facing Fraud Charges

For the third time in less that two and one-half years, a western Pennsylvania insurance agent is facing charges regarding fraudulent business practices — this time for deceiving a long-time insurance customer into investing more than $75,000 in his...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Agent Allegedly Duped Customer into Agency Investment in Third Fraud Charge

For the third time in less that two and one-half years, a western Pennsylvania insurance agent is facing charges regarding fraudulent business practices — this time for deceiving a long-time insurance customer into investing more than $75,000 in his...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Agent Allegedly Duped Customer Into Agency Investment in Third Fraud Charge

For the third time in less that two and one-half years, a western Pennsylvania insurance agent is facing charges regarding fraudulent business practices — this time for deceiving a long-time insurance customer into investing more than $75,000 in his...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

AM Best Revises Outlooks to Negative for Golden Bear

AM Best revised the outlook for Golden Bear Insurance Company from stable to negative, while the ratings agency affirmed the carrier’s Financial Strength Rating of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a” (Excelle...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Former Adjuster Charged With Creating Then Approving $190K in Fake Property Claims

A former New Jersey insurance adjuster has been charged with creating and submitting phony claims, approving them himself, and directing nearly $200,000 in payments to bank accounts he controlled. John Philbin, of Clementon, has been charged with ins...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Former Adjuster Charged With Creating Then Approving $190K in Fraudulent Claims

A former New Jersey insurance adjuster has been charged with creating and submitting phony claims, approving them himself, and directing nearly $200,000 in payments to bank accounts he controlled. John Philbin, of Clementon, has been charged with ins...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

California Police Pulled Over A Waymo for An Illegal U-Turn, But They Couldn’t Cite

Police in Northern California were understandably perplexed when they pulled over a Waymo taxi after it made an illegal U-turn, only to find no driver behind the wheel and therefore, no one to ticket. The San Bruno Police Department wrote …

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

Suit Accuses Firearms Group of Using Gun Owners’ Personal Data to Tailor Political Ads

A firearms industry trade and lobbying organization secretly built a database containing the personal information of millions of gun owners and used the data to reach gun rights supporters with political ads dating back to the 2000 elections, accordi...

Posted: Oct 03, 2025

People Moves: Aon Names Srivastava as Reinsurance Global Chief Broking Officer; AXISTaps Hosking Fro...

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Aon plc and AXIS Capital Holdings. A summary of these new hires follows here. Aon Names Srivastava as Reinsurance Global Chief Broking Officer Aon plc, a leading global professional s...

Posted: Oct 02, 2025

People Moves: Wall Named President at DOXA

DOXA, headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana, appointed Kevin Wall as president. An early addition to the leadership team at DOXA, Wall oversaw the company’s financial strategy as chief financial officer for eight years. Wall has over 15 years of...

Posted: Oct 02, 2025

Louisiana Department of Insurance Issues Guidance on NFIP Expiration

The National Flood Insurance Program expired Wednesday after Congress did not pass a federal budget ahead of an Oct. 1 deadline. The lapse means no new federal flood policies will be sold, and expiring policies will not be renewed. The …

Posted: Oct 02, 2025

Family of Man Who Died in Ohio Jail Reaches $7M Settlement

The family of a man who died after being restrained in an Ohio county jail said Tuesday that they have reached a $7 million settlement agreement with the county and are pushing officials there to prevent something like the death …

Posted: Oct 02, 2025

Coca-Cola Bottling Distributor Sued for Disability Discrimination Against Louisiana Worker

Coca-Cola Bottling Company United, Inc. (CCBCU), the third-largest bottler and distributor of Coca-Cola products in the United States, violated federal law by failing to accommodate an employee with a disability and then firing him because of his dis...

Posted: Oct 02, 2025

Coca-Cola Distributor Sued for Disability Discrimination Against Louisiana Worker

Coca-Cola Bottling Company United, Inc. (CCBCU), the third-largest bottler and distributor of Coca-Cola products in the United States, violated federal law by failing to accommodate an employee with a disability and then firing him because of his dis...

Posted: Oct 02, 2025

Trump’s $7.6 Billion Energy Cuts Hit California Grid Upgrade

The Trump administration’s plan to cancel billions of dollars for energy projects following the U.S. government shutdown includes an initiative to upgrade electric transmission lines in California. A consortium that included the California Ener...

Posted: Oct 02, 2025

Tampa-Based Professional Insurance Services Merges With Lawley

Lawley, a family owned insurance brokerage and benefits firm, has expanded into Florida through a merger with Tampa-based Professional Insurance Services. It’s the first Florida location for the Buffalo, New York-based Lawley, but its 18th in t...

Posted: Oct 02, 2025