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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday approved enhanced legal protections for police officers, changes that Republicans said show support for law enforcement but Democrats called “a green light to kill Black folks.” The A...
Posted: May 16, 2025
Officials found the body of a 12-year-old boy who was swept away by rushing water on a Virginia roadway during a storm system that also forced a dozen students to stay overnight at a Maryland high school due to heavy …
Posted: May 16, 2025
A former New York City Fire Department chief was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday for accepting tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to fast-track fire safety inspections at restaurants, hotels and other city businesses. Anthony Saccavi...
Posted: May 16, 2025
A hotline between military and civilian air traffic controllers in Washington, D.C., that hasn’t worked for more than three years may have contributed to another near miss shortly after the U.S. Army resumed flying helicopters in the area for t...
Posted: May 16, 2025
Insurance agency Davis & Towle Insurance Group, headquartered in Concord, New Hampshire, announced its acquisition of Tobey & Merrill Insurance in Hampton. While the agency will operate under Davis & Towle’s ownership, it will keep...
Posted: May 16, 2025
Swiss Re AG’s profit rose in the first quarter as losses from the California wildfires were offset by positive performance across the business. Net income increased to $1.3 billion from $1.1 billion a year earlier, well ahead of the $952 …...
Posted: May 16, 2025
U.S. energy officials are reassessing the risk posed by Chinese-made devices that play a critical role in renewable energy infrastructure after unexplained communication equipment was found inside some of them, two people familiar with the matter sai...
Posted: May 16, 2025
British retailer Marks & Spencer said on Thursday food volumes flowing from its distribution centers to its stores were back to normal levels after product availability was hit by last month’s cyberattack. “In chilled areas of our sto...
Posted: May 16, 2025
Morton Salt, Inc. will pay $75,000 and provide other relief to settle a race, disability and retaliation discrimination case filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced. According to the EEOC’s...
Posted: May 16, 2025
Morton Salt, Inc. will pay $75,000 and provide other relief to settle a race, disability and retaliation discrimination case filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced. According to the EEOC’s...
Posted: May 16, 2025
Christian Dior Couture has been hit by a cyberattack, with hackers obtaining some of its customers’ data. LVMH’s second biggest fashion label said it recently discovered that an “unauthorized external party” accessed some of i...
Posted: May 16, 2025
Texas is trying to entice more companies to ditch Delaware and incorporate in the state, just like Tesla Inc. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. did last year at the behest of Elon Musk. Governor Greg Abbott is poised to sign …
Posted: May 16, 2025
At last week's RIMS RISKWORLD conference in Chicago, experts from risk and claims administration partner Sedgwick outlined a few key workers' comp trends.
Posted: May 16, 2025
Estonia said on Thursday that Moscow had briefly sent a fighter jet into NATO airspace over the Baltic Sea during an attempt to stop a Russian-bound oil tanker thought to be part of a “shadow fleet” defying Western sanctions on …
Posted: May 16, 2025
A former food delivery driver pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to steal more than $2.5 million from DoorDash by getting the company to pay for deliveries that never occurred, federal prosecutors said. Sayee Chaitanya Reddy Devagiri pleaded gu...
Posted: May 16, 2025
Delos Insurance Solutions Appoints Coffman CRO Delos Insurance Solutions appointed Jeremy Coffman to the newly created role of chief revenue officer. As CRO, Coffman focuses on expanding Delos’ agency, carrier, and business to business relation...
Posted: May 16, 2025
A lack of oxygen that incapacitated the pilot and three passengers is likely what caused a private jet to become unresponsive before flying over the nation’s capital and prompting the military to scramble fighter jets in 2023, according to a &#...
Posted: May 16, 2025
Hackers had near-constant access to some of Coinbase Global Inc.’s most valuable customer data since January, according to a person familiar with the incident who asked not to be named discussing company matters. The largest US crypto exchange...
Posted: May 16, 2025
This post is part of a series sponsored by Cotality. There’s a blurry line between where a wildfire ends and a conflagration begins. But, without an understanding of both types of fires, their dynamics, and their unique risks, it is …
Posted: May 15, 2025
Zurich North America announced key leadership changes within U.S. national accounts and underwriting as Heather Fox has been promoted to lead national accounts and Peter Caminiti was promoted to chief underwriting officer. Fox was most recently chief...
Posted: May 15, 2025
David Richardson, the new head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said on Thursday that states would in the future bear half the costs for responding to natural disasters, up from 25% under current cost-sharing levels. Richardson, who took t...
Posted: May 15, 2025
This post is part of a series sponsored by Expert Insured. If every change in your system requires a support ticket, it’s already slowing you down-and costing you more than you think. At the Target Markets Mid-Year Conference in Dallas, …
Posted: May 15, 2025
Federal safety regulators have asked Elon Musk’s car company to explain how its driverless taxis will avoid causing accidents when they hit the road in Texas next month before a national “robotaxi” launch that is key to keeping its...
Posted: May 15, 2025
Rep. Scott Fitzgerald today reintroduced a bill to eliminate the subpoena power of the Federal Insurance Office (FIO). The Insurance Data Protection Act was first presented by Fitzgerald, R-Wis., to the U.S. House of Representatives in September 2023...
Posted: May 15, 2025
Sweltering heat more commonly seen in the throes of summer than in the spring was making an unwelcome visit this week to a large portion of the U.S. – from the Dakotas to Texas and other parts of the South …
Posted: May 15, 2025