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The Virginia Court of Appeals has ruled that a trial court erred in finding that a garbage truck driver and the city of Chesapeake were shielded by sovereign immunity for their role in an accident caused by the truck driver …
Posted: Oct 08, 2024
Chemical products manufacturer AB Specialty Silicones LLC will pay $1.3 million in penalties after an explosion and fire at its Waukegan, Illinois plant in May 2019 claimed the lives of four workers. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational...
Posted: Oct 08, 2024
GOSHEN, Ohio (AP) — An early morning crash involving two cars on an Ohio road killed five people and critically injured another person, authorities said. The Ohio State Highway Patrol said a car heading northeast on Route 28 struck a …
Posted: Oct 08, 2024
Hurricanes in the United States end up hundreds of times deadlier than the government calculates, contributing to more American deaths than car accidents or all the nation’s wars, a new study said. The average storm hitting the U.S. contributes...
Posted: Oct 08, 2024
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Price Forbes Re and Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI). A summary of these new hires follows here. Price Forbes Re Names Gallagher Re’s Cole as EVP, Head of Financial...
Posted: Oct 08, 2024
For the second time in two weeks, Tampa General Hospital is getting ready to keep water at bay. Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall Wednesday and will test the hospital’s flood barrier. It takes dozens of facilities workers to …
Posted: Oct 08, 2024
The remnants of Hurricane Kirk are forecast to hit France on Wednesday, after weakening to a post-tropical cyclone. The storm will bring wind gusts as strong as 150 kilometers (93 miles) per hour to the Pyrenees, according to Météo-France. It …
Posted: Oct 08, 2024
TikTok faces new lawsuits filed by 13 U.S. states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday, accusing the popular social media platform of harming and failing to protect young people. The lawsuits filed separately in New York, California, the District...
Posted: Oct 08, 2024
Florida law requires insurance agencies’ customer service representatives to work only at the agency office. But with another hurricane headed toward the state, and much of the western part of the state under evacuation orders, Florida’s...
Posted: Oct 08, 2024
Specialty insurer Beazley announced the launch of a cyber consortium that provides comprehensive cover for large corporates with a turnover in excess of $1 billion, infusing $100 million of new capacity into the cyber market. Called Beazley Quantum,...
Posted: Oct 08, 2024
A new report from insurance broker Aon reveals that the prospective return on equity (ROE) for diversified homeowners insurance carriers decreased by 100 basis points to 5.0% from last year’s ROE, despite carriers receiving significant rate inc...
Posted: Oct 08, 2024
New Jersey-based American Water, which runs water treatment, transmission, wells and other water facilities for 14 states, has reported a cyber incident. The company has deactivated its customer portal, MyWater, as a precaution, but does not believe...
Posted: Oct 08, 2024
The leader of a regional organized theft crew, who orchestrated the thefts of catalytic converters from nearly 500 vehicles across the region, multiple jewelry store robberies and the stealing of banks’ automated teller machines has been senten...
Posted: Oct 08, 2024
Pro-Palestinian activists targeted the British offices of German financial services firm Allianz on Tuesday, daubing the outside with red paint in protest over the company’s links to Israeli defense firm Elbit Systems. Palestine Action claimed...
Posted: Oct 08, 2024
This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. In this episode, EVP of Excess and Surplus Coy Rudd discusses marketplace conditions, IAT Insurance Group’s appetite and growth, and recent successes within the industry. Hosted by...
Posted: Oct 08, 2024
This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Navigating the request for proposal (RFP) process can feel like steering through a labyrinth. The stakes are high, and the complexities are numerous. Your role demands not only ensuring that ̷...
Posted: Oct 08, 2024
Rwanda is battling its first-ever outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus, with 36 cases reported so far and 11 deaths. The World Health Organization said this week the risk of the outbreak is very high in Rwanda, high across the …
Posted: Oct 08, 2024
Australia is likely to see an above average number of severe tropical cyclones this season, according to the nation’s weather agency, which have the potential to damage crops and flood mining operations. The likelihood of more strong storms is...
Posted: Oct 08, 2024
British finance minister Rachel Reeves needs to strike a positive tone at her first budget on Oct. 30 in order to give businesses the confidence to invest, the Confederation of British Industry said on Tuesday. After winning a large parliament …...
Posted: Oct 08, 2024
Russia targeted a ship loaded with Ukrainian grain with a ballistic missile Monday — the second in two days — killing one person and injuring five, according to the Infrastructure Ministry in Kyiv. The Optima, which sails under the flag …
Posted: Oct 08, 2024
There is no federal law that requires the disclosure of litigation funding agreements in court cases, but some disturbing insight has been found in individual jurisdictions that have rules to increase transparency, according a panel on the topic at t...
Posted: Oct 08, 2024
The head of one of the largest private flood insurance writers this week questioned an A.M. Best report that said private flood companies are failing to make significant inroads in America’s troubled flood market. “From 2020 through 2022,...
Posted: Oct 08, 2024
The head of one of the largest private flood insurance writers this week questioned an AM Best report that said private flood companies are failing to make significant inroads in America’s troubled flood market. “From 2020 through 2022, p...
Posted: Oct 08, 2024
U.S. property and casualty insurance stocks tanked on Monday after Hurricane Milton intensified into a category 4 storm on its path towards Florida’s western coast, marking yet another costly disaster for the industry to cover this year. Insure...
Posted: Oct 08, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a bid by U.S. gun maker Smith & Wesson SWBI.O and firearms wholesaler Interstate Arms to throw out Mexico’s lawsuit accusing them of aiding the illegal trafficking of firearms to Mexican ̷...
Posted: Oct 08, 2024