Insurance Journal
The role of Israel’s hijacking of Iran’s street cameras in the killing of the country’s supreme leader underscores how surveillance systems are increasingly being targeted by adversaries in wartime. Hundreds of millions of cameras h...
Posted: Mar 27, 2026
The US warned that Iran-backed Houthi militants could start firing on vessels in the Bab El-Mandeb Strait after Tehran raised the possibility of extending barriers to global shipping during the ongoing war. The US Department of Transportation’s...
Posted: Mar 27, 2026
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said a US insurance program meant to boost shipping through the Strait of Hormuz will begin soon, a move that may help revive flows of much of the world’s oil and gas supplies. Bessent’s predictions, deliv...
Posted: Mar 27, 2026
The war in Iran is exposing the world’s reliance on fragile fossil fuel routes, lending urgency to calls for hastening the shift to renewable energy. Fighting has all but halted oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway R...
Posted: Mar 27, 2026
Ex-hedge fund boss Crispin Odey cornered a female receptionist after an alcohol-fueled lunch and told her “I could attack you now,” according to a diary entry by the staffer revealed at a London court on Tuesday. When she verbally resiste...
Posted: Mar 27, 2026
A property insurer is on solid ground in applying depreciation to actual cash value, as long as the policy makes that plan clear, a federal appeals court said in shooting down a proposed class-action lawsuit against Cincinnati Casualty Co. The …...
Posted: Mar 27, 2026
A property insurer is on solid ground in applying depreciation to actual cash value, as long as the policy makes that plan clear, a federal appeals court said in shooting down a proposed class-action lawsuit against Cincinnati Casualty Co. The …...
Posted: Mar 27, 2026
An anti-vaccine group aligned with U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is petitioning him to vastly broaden a federal list to include more than 300 injuries it says are linked to immunizations, and has threatened to sue if he …
Posted: Mar 27, 2026
Coastal-focused homeowners and flood insurance broker ShoreOne Insurance Managers, Inc. has been acquired by Totalis Program Underwriters, a New York specialty insurance platform that is part of NFP, an Aon company. Terms of the deal were not disclos...
Posted: Mar 27, 2026
The NCAA filed a complaint in federal court last week seeking an emergency restraining order to stop online sportsbook DraftKings from using registered trademarks associated with the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments. The comp...
Posted: Mar 27, 2026
Melody Gray joined Alliant Insurance Services as vice president within its employee benefits group. Gray is based in Portland, Oregon, and will design and deliver a range of employee benefits solutions to a client base throughout the Pacific Northwes...
Posted: Mar 27, 2026
RT Specialty’s Hamilton, New Jersey office, which is part of RT Specialty’s Environmental and Construction Professional (RT ECP) Practice, promoted four team members to new roles. Zack Kalet is advancing to consultant. Kalet joined RT ECP...
Posted: Mar 27, 2026
A married couple from New Bedford, Massachusetts pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to a scheme to defraud insurance clients through their business, BL Insurance Brokerage, LLC. According to U.S. Attorney Leah B. Foley, Brendan and L...
Posted: Mar 27, 2026
The Supreme Court of Maryland has thrown out climate change lawsuits filed by Baltimore, Annapolis and Anne Arundel County against 26 fossil fuel companies, finding that the Clean Air Act along with U.S. Supreme Court rulings make it clear that ̷...
Posted: Mar 27, 2026
Law enforcement officials on Tuesday said they are taking steps to monitor and counter threats to Jewish and Muslim communities nationwide since the onset of war in the Middle East, multiple hate crimes and an attempted terror attack prompted increas...
Posted: Mar 27, 2026
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Everest Group and AXA XL. A summary of these new hires follows here. Everest Appoints Busti From AXIS as Head of North America Treaty Reinsurance Everest Group Ltd., the Bermuda-based...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
A Michigan woman pled guilty to organizing a high-volume theft ring targeting Ulta Beauty stores in Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties, announced Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. Cheaira Broughton, 38, of Detroit, was charged by the Department...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
A Texas State Fire Marshal’s Office (SFMO) investigation helped lead to a lifetime prison sentence for a Panhandle man who set a house fire to cover up the murder of a 4-year-old girl. Humberto Martinez pleaded guilty to capital murder …
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
AM Besthas revised the outlooks to stable from negative and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings of “a” (Excellent) for the following pooled members of Western Reserve Group: West...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Risk Theory, a Dallas, Texas-based platform of insurance distribution businesses, announced the launch of Dealer Transit, a new logistics solution designed to help dealerships mitigate the growing risk of vehicle theft during transit. The program is...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
The Society of Actuaries (SOA), the world’s largest actuarial professional organization, named Clar Rosso as the new CEO, effective May 4. Rosso assumes the role from Greg Heidrich, who is retiring after serving as CEO since 2007. Rosso recentl...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing mutual fund giant Fidelity of cheating many investors in its $439.1 billion Fidelity Government Money Market Fund by keeping them in higher-cost share classes than they were eligible for. U.S....
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Marsh Risk said it has secured comprehensive insurance coverage for TerraPower’s Kemmerer Unit 1 in Kemmerer, Wyoming, considered the nation’s first commercial-scale, advanced nuclear power plant approved for construction by the Nuclear R...
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
A shooting in Boston. A carjacking in Washington, D.C. A robbery in New York. All were carried out with guns that were among hundreds bought in the South and trafficked north to cities with some of the nation’s strictest firearms …
Posted: Mar 26, 2026
Georgia could become the first state to require every student to be checked for weapons when arriving at a public school each day. A bill is nearing passage that would require weapons detection systems in a further reaction to a …
Posted: Mar 26, 2026