Insurance Journal
A 79-year-old man in Southern California filed a claim against the federal government for $50 million in damages, saying federal agents violated his civil rights when they tackled him during a Sept. 9 immigration raid at a car wash business. …
Posted: Sep 30, 2025
A surgical technician who was fired in 2021 after refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine for religious reasons can pursue her claim against her former employer UMass Memorial Health Care, the Massachusetts Supreme Court (SJC) has ruled. The state̵...
Posted: Sep 30, 2025
PG&E Corp. plans to invest $73 billion in capital expenditures through 2030 as it moves to harden a system that’s been exposed by extreme weather. Utilities are racing to strengthen grids as artificial intelligence, electric cars and new fa...
Posted: Sep 30, 2025
(The Center Square) – Neither naturally occurring landslides nor sinkholes are new phenomena in Pennsylvania. Receiving help when they destroy homes and businesses, however, would be a welcome development for those who live in vulnerable areas....
Posted: Sep 30, 2025
Four people died after heavy rain caused flooding in Arizona, including three in a rural 19th-century mining town where floodwaters on Friday forced people to seek safety on rooftops and washed out a propane distributorship, scattering about 1,000 ta...
Posted: Sep 29, 2025
While we’d prefer everyone associated with insurance act with the highest regard for ethical integrity at all times, reality is messy. Things happen. And, with 18 U.S. Code § 1033, if you’ve engaged in a felony that involves a breach R...
Posted: Sep 29, 2025
Two Democratic lawmakers are pressing the Trump administration about its management of the National Flood Insurance Program after cuts at the agency that runs it, the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In a letter to FEMA’s Acting Administrat...
Posted: Sep 29, 2025
NASA’s first radar images from a new Earth-mapping satellite show the Maine coast and North Dakota farmland in incredible detail. The pictures, released Thursday, are from a spacecraft that rocketed into orbit from India two months ago. The joi...
Posted: Sep 29, 2025
As Minnesota mourned a mass shooting at a church that left two schoolchildren dead and 21 people injured, Gov. Tim Walz promised to call a special session for the Legislature to pass solutions to gun violence and school safety. But …
Posted: Sep 29, 2025
Sai Abhideep Pundla has been awake since 3 a.m. After a red-eye flight from Las Vegas, where he briefed data center company executives and local government officials about the future of artificial intelligence, he’s back in a lab at UT-Arlingto...
Posted: Sep 29, 2025
Alliant Insurance Services has hired Alex Gramling as Senior Vice President within its Employee Benefits Group. Based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Gramling will serve a national client base, drawing from a background that spans the full spectrum of emp...
Posted: Sep 29, 2025
Global insurance brokers Arthur J. Gallagher is suing two former employees who left to start their own New York brokerage firm for allegedly soliciting Gallagher clients and using confidential information in violation of their employment agreements....
Posted: Sep 29, 2025
Typhoon Bualoi killed at least 12 people in northern central Vietnam, where heavy rains are expected to continue amid power cuts and flight disruptions. The storm made landfall in Vietnam early Monday after it earlier slammed the Philippines, where 2...
Posted: Sep 29, 2025
Howden US appointed Christine Palomba as deputy head, natural resources, Howden US, headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina. Palomba has 29 years of industry experience, most recently at Aon, where her previous role was managing director, U.S. powe...
Posted: Sep 29, 2025
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Specialty MGA and HDI UK & Ireland. A summary of these new hires follows here. Specialty MGA Taps BMS’s Conway as Senior MedMal Underwriter Specialty MGA, the London-headqua...
Posted: Sep 29, 2025
Neptune Insurance Holdings Inc. is hoping its record of growth and profitability selling flood insurance policies will generate the same investor enthusiasm for its US IPO that greeted most debuts by other firms in the sector this year. Like many ...
Posted: Sep 29, 2025
The U.S. Transportation Department tightened commercial driver’s license requirements for noncitizens Friday after three fatal crashes this year that officials say were caused by immigrant truck drivers. The new rules make getting commercial dr...
Posted: Sep 29, 2025
The U.S. Transportation Department tightened commercial driver’s license requirements for noncitizens on Sept. 26 after three fatal crashes this year that officials say were caused by immigrant truck drivers. The new rules make getting commerci...
Posted: Sep 29, 2025
A lack of resources and outdated policies for sending emergency alerts led to delayed evacuation warnings as flames began consuming neighborhoods during deadly Los Angeles-area wildfires in January, according to an outside review. The Independent Aft...
Posted: Sep 29, 2025
A lack of resources and outdated policies for sending emergency alerts led to delayed evacuation warnings as flames began consuming neighborhoods during deadly Los Angeles-area wildfires in January, according to an outside review. The Independent Aft...
Posted: Sep 29, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would impose a 100% tariff on all foreign-made movies, an unprecedented move that threatens to upend Hollywood’s global business model. The step signals Trump’s willingness to extend protectio...
Posted: Sep 29, 2025
Hurricane Humberto will likely bulldoze a path for Tropical Storm Imelda to veer away from the coastal US Southeast, sparing the region from a direct strike. Category 4 Humberto’s winds rose to 145 miles (233 kilometers) per hour as of …
Posted: Sep 29, 2025
A New York judge ruled Ron Perelman was not entitled to $400 million from insurers over alleged damage to an Andy Warhol and four other paintings from a 2018 fire at his Hamptons home. Justice Joel M. Cohen’s Friday decision …
Posted: Sep 29, 2025
Customers of Harrods Ltd., the luxury London department store, had their personal data stolen, the latest in a string of cyberattacks and IT breaches affecting major UK businesses this year. Data including names and contact details for some Harrods c...
Posted: Sep 29, 2025
A French appeals court will begin a new trial on Monday of Air France and Airbus, 16 years after a jetliner plunged into the Atlantic killing all 228 people on board. A lower French court cleared both companies of corporate …
Posted: Sep 29, 2025