Insurance Journal

79-Year-Old Injured in LA Immigration Raid Files $50 Million Claim

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

Mass. High Court Revives Fired Employee’s Religious Claim Over Vaccine Refusal

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 state&#821...

Posted: Sep 30, 2025

PG&E Investing $73B in Capital Spending Through 2030 to Harden System

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

Landslide Protection? Pennsylvania to Step In Where Insurance Companies Step Out

(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

4 Dead After Flooding in Arizona, Including in Historic Mining Town

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

1033 Waivers in Insurance – What Are They, and How Do They Work?

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 &#82...

Posted: Sep 29, 2025

Lawmakers Press FEMA on the Future of US Flood Insurance

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

First Radar Images From NASA Satellite Showcase Maine Coast, North Dakota Farmland

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

Minnesota’s Political Divide Stalls Gun Control Efforts

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

Grad Students are Developing a Way to Cool Texas Data Centers Without Water

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

People Moves: Alliant Adds Gramling to Employee Benefits Group

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

Gallagher Sues Two Former Brokers Who Started Own Firm

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 Kills 12 in Vietnam as Philippine Toll Hits 27

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

People Moves: Palomba Joins Howden US as Deputy Head of Natural Resources

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

People Moves: Specialty MGA Taps BMS’s Conway as Senior MedMal Underwriter; HDI UK & Ireland Names P...

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

Flood-Focused Neptune’s IPO Joins Boom in Niche Insurer Debuts

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 &#8...

Posted: Sep 29, 2025

Transportation Department Tightens Noncitizen Truck Driver Rules After Florida Crash

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

Transportation Department Tightens Noncitizen Truck Driver Rules

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

Report: Response to Disastrous LA Fires Slowed by Lack of Resources, Outdated Alert Process

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

Report: Response to LA Fires Slowed by Lack of Resources, Outdated Alert Process

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

Trump Says US to Impose 100% Tariff on Movies Made Outside the Country

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 Allow Storm Imelda to Veer Away From US

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

Perelman Loses Bid for $400 Million for Less ‘Vibrant’ Art

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

Harrods Warns Customers of Data Theft in Latest IT Breach

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

French Court Opens New Trial on Air France 447 Air Disaster, After 16 Years

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