Insurance Journal

Denver Group Lands NWSL Team for $110M Expansion Fee, Owners Include IMA and Parsyl Execs

The NWSL’s 16th team is headed to Denver for a record $110 million expansion fee, Sportico.com reported. It’s more than double the previous NWSL record for new teams and the largest expansion fee ever in U.S. women’s sports. Groups...

Posted: Jan 06, 2025

Denver Lands NWSL Team for $110M Fee; Owners Include IMA and Parsyl Execs

The National Women’s Soccer League 16th team is headed to Denver for a record $110 million expansion fee, Sportico.com reported. It’s more than double the previous NWSL record for new teams and the largest expansion fee ever in U.S. women...

Posted: Jan 06, 2025

People Moves: AXIS Taps Chubb’s Farrup to Lead Global Mkts, Succeeding Gregory; Agile’s Lloyd’s Synd...

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at AXIS Capital Holdings and Agile Insurance Group. A summary of these new hires follows here. AXIS Appoints Chubb’s Farrup as Head of Global Markets, Succeeding Gregory AXIS Capit...

Posted: Jan 06, 2025

CFPB Sues Walmart, Scheduling Platform for Alleged Illegal Pay Practices for Gig Drivers

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has sued Walmart and work scheduling platform Branch Messenger for allegedly forcing delivery drivers that are part of the discounter’s gig program to use costly deposit accounts to get paid and misprese...

Posted: Jan 06, 2025

Drivers Skid and Crash as Wintry Mix Blasts Central US

Road conditions were deteriorating over the weekend in the central U.S. as a winter storm brought a mix of snow, ice and plunging temperatures, with forecasts calling for the dreaded combo to spread eastward in the coming days. “Winter returned...

Posted: Jan 06, 2025

Relation Acquires Illinois’ Forest

Relation Insurance Services acquired the assets of Forest Insurance Agency. The transaction went into effect on December 1, 2024; terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Specializing in personal and business insurance, Forest is based in Forest...

Posted: Jan 06, 2025

AM Best: Increasing Political, Terror Risk Could Lead to More Demand for Coverage

Authorities have said there is no evidence that the truck attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Day was directed by the Islamic State but the incident – as well as the same-day truck explosion outside a hotel in Las …

Posted: Jan 06, 2025

Fire in Dallas Shopping Center Kills Hundreds of Animals

DALLAS (AP) — A fire that broke out at a shopping center in Dallas on Friday morning killed more than 500 animals, most of which were small birds, authorities said. The 579 animals in the pet shop at Plaza Latina …

Posted: Jan 06, 2025

Clyde & Co Expands Texas Presence With Tillman Batcher Merger

Law firm Clyde & Co announced its merger with Dallas law firm Tillman Batchelor LLP. Mark Tillman and Colin Batchelor have joined Clyde & Co’s Dallas office as partners and will be joined by their team of six people. The …

Posted: Jan 06, 2025

Global Property Catastrophe Rates-on-Line Down 6.6% During Renewals: Guy Carpenter

Guy Carpenter reports that average global and regional property catastrophe rates-on-line decreased during the January 2025 renewals in amounts ranging from 5.3% to 7.2%. Guy Carpenter defines rate on line (ROL) as the cost of reinsurance based on pr...

Posted: Jan 06, 2025

US Steel, Nippon Sue Biden Administration Over Decision to Block Merger

U.S. President Joe Biden violated the Constitution by blocking Nippon Steel’s $14.9 billion bid for U.S. Steel through a sham national security review, the companies alleged in a lawsuit they said was filed on Monday. The companies want the fed...

Posted: Jan 06, 2025

Deadly Accident Has Hawaii Officials asking to End Amateur Fireworks Shows

In recent years, occasions large and small — parties, Super Bowls, mixed martial arts fights, even Thanksgiving — have provided a reason for residents across Hawaii to set off illegal fireworks. The increasingly sophisticated displays, loved by some...

Posted: Jan 06, 2025

Deadly Accident Has Hawaii Officials Asking to End Amateur Fireworks Shows

In recent years, occasions large and small — parties, Super Bowls, mixed martial arts fights, even Thanksgiving — have provided a reason for residents across Hawaii to set off illegal fireworks. The increasingly sophisticated displays, loved by some...

Posted: Jan 06, 2025

Russia-Appointed Officials in Crimea Declare Emergency as Oil Spill Reaches Sevastopol

Russia-appointed officials in Moscow-occupied Crimea announced a regional emergency on Saturday, as oil was detected on the shores of Sevastopol, the peninsula’s largest city. Fuel oil spilled out of two storm-stricken tankers nearly three week...

Posted: Jan 06, 2025

Taiwan Says Chinese Ship Broke Subsea Cable in Alleged Sabotage

Taiwan suspects a Chinese-owned cargo vessel damaged an undersea cable near its northeastern coast Friday, in an alleged act of sabotage that highlights the vulnerabilities of Taipei’s offshore communications infrastructure. The ship is owned b...

Posted: Jan 06, 2025

The Institutes, Kevelighan Fire Back at Retaliation Claims by Former Triple-I Employee

The Institutes and Sean Kevelighan, chief executive of the Insurance Information Institute, deny the allegations of discrimination and retaliation from former employee Michael Barry. According to a filing in U.S. District Court for the Southern Distr...

Posted: Jan 06, 2025

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Canadian Broker Encore Group

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., the Rolling Meadows, Illinois-based insurance brokerage, announced the acquisition of Waterloo, Ontario-based Encore Insurance Services Inc., dba Encore Group. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Encore Group i...

Posted: Jan 06, 2025

Severe Winter Storm Batters Nation’s Capital and Metro Region

The nation’s capital and surrounding areas are experiencing he effects of a severe winter storm as part of a storm that has moved from parts of the Ohio Valley through to the Mid-Atlantic. The storm is producing moderate to heavy …

Posted: Jan 06, 2025

New NC Governor Issues Orders to Speed Housing Work After Helene

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — New North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein took several actions on Thursday to help the short- and long-term recovery from Hurricane Helene, with an immediate focus on more temporary housing and repairs to private bridges and roads. &#...

Posted: Jan 06, 2025

US Chamber, Oil Firms Sue Vermont for Making Companies Pay for Climate Damage

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a top oil and gas industry trade group are suing Vermont over its new law requiring that fossil fuel companies pay a share of the damage caused over several decades by climate change. The …

Posted: Jan 06, 2025

New York Employers Must Offer Paid Medical Leave During Pregnancy

Pregnant New Yorkers will be entitled to at least 20 hours of paid leave to attend prenatal medical appointments under a law that took effect Wednesday. Gov. Kathy Hochul said the policy makes New York the first state in the …

Posted: Jan 06, 2025

Ghosts of Grenfell Disaster: No Penalties for UK Firms That Used Flammable Cladding

When the deadly Grenfell Tower blaze in 2017 led to revelations that high-rise public housing buildings across Britain were wrapped in flammable cladding, the government vowed the building contractors responsible would pay for their negligence. Seven...

Posted: Jan 06, 2025

One in Four UK Firms Cut Jobs After Reeves Budget, PMI Shows

Almost one in four British businesses cut jobs in December amid widespread pessimism over the squeeze on their finances from Labour’s tax-raising budget. S&P Global’s purchasing managers’ index confirmed that the private sector...

Posted: Jan 06, 2025

The Wartime Risk Insurers Making Fortunes Keeping Trade Moving

Inside faceless office buildings scattered around London, a niche corner of the insurance market is keeping hundreds of billions of dollars in commodity trade moving through some of the world’s most dangerous waters. As conflicts rage in the Mi...

Posted: Jan 06, 2025

US Sanctions Chinese Cyber Firm Linked to Botnet Attack

The US Treasury Department sanctioned Chinese cybersecurity firm Integrity Technology Group for its alleged role in a state-sponsored botnet attack known as Flax Typhoon. Integrity Technology, which is traded on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, was invol...

Posted: Jan 06, 2025