Insurance Journal

Catastrophe Bonds Are Luring Retail Investors to High-Risk Debt

There was a time when investing in catastrophe bonds was the preserve of hedge funds and other sophisticated alternative asset managers. But after underpinning the best hedge fund strategy of 2023, the bonds are finding a wider audience. Catastrophe-...

Posted: Jun 24, 2024

Norfolk Southern Says it Will Examine Vent and Burn Decisions

Days before the National Transportation Safety Board is set to explain why first responders were wrong to blow open five tank cars and burn the toxic chemical inside after the East Palestine derailment, Norfolk Southern said Friday it plans to &#8230...

Posted: Jun 24, 2024

US Prosecutors Recommend DOJ Criminally Charge Boeing as Deadline Looms

U.S. prosecutors are recommending to senior Justice Department officials that criminal charges be brought against Boeing after finding the planemaker violated a settlement related to two fatal crashes, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters...

Posted: Jun 24, 2024

DOJ Drops Claims That TikTok Misled US Consumers in Lawsuit

The US Justice Department is dropping one of two proposed claims against ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok, planning to focus a consumer protection lawsuit later this year on children’s privacy instead of allegations the video-sharing platform misl...

Posted: Jun 24, 2024

Hackers Auction Off Stolen LendingTree Consumers’ Data

Hackers are selling data about consumers of the LendingTree Inc. subsidiary QuoteWizard after the company detected unauthorized access on a cloud database hosted by Snowflake Inc., according to a person familiar with the matter. There have been sever...

Posted: Jun 24, 2024

CDK Begins Restoring Systems Systems After Cyber Hack Hits Thousands of Retailers

Retail technology and software provider CDK Global has begun work to restore systems used by over 15,000 retail locations across North America, the company said in a statement on Sunday, adding that it expects the process to take “several days....

Posted: Jun 24, 2024

CDK Begins Restoring Systems After Cyber Hack Hits Thousands of Retailers

Retail technology and software provider CDK Global has begun work to restore systems used by over 15,000 retail locations across North America, the company said in a statement on Sunday, adding that it expects the process to take “several days....

Posted: Jun 24, 2024

Progressive, Bars Settle for $1M in SC DUI Crash That Killed Bride on Wedding Night

FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (AP) — The husband of a bride who was killed in a South Carolina beach road collision on her wedding night last year will receive nearly a million dollars in settlement connected to the crash, which a …

Posted: Jun 24, 2024

Let Good Adjusters, Not Expensive Lawyers, Make the Difference on Claims, CEO Says

Harish Kapur, CEO of Across America Insurance Services, likes to tell the story of how his company’s chief defense lawyer became fed up with Kapur’s frequent requests for lower settlements on claims disputes. “He fired us. He litera...

Posted: Jun 24, 2024

Coverage Needed: Hundreds of Thousands in SE Now in Flood Zones with New Maps

Many more properties, including hundreds of thousands of homes across the Southeast, will be required to purchase flood insurance after July 31, due to revisions in federal flood maps. The change means about 138,800 more structures in Miami-Dade, Pal...

Posted: Jun 24, 2024

Coverage Needed: Hundreds of Thousands in SE Now in Flood Zones With New Maps

Many more properties, including hundreds of thousands of homes across the Southeast, will be required to purchase flood insurance after July 31, due to revisions in federal flood maps. The change means about 138,800 more structures in Miami-Dade, Pal...

Posted: Jun 24, 2024

New York Enacts Law to Limit ‘Addictive’ Social Media Feeds for Kids

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday signed a bill that would allow parents to block their children from getting social media posts suggested by a platform’s algorithm, a move to limit feeds critics argue are addictive. Under the legislation,...

Posted: Jun 24, 2024

Dali Crew Can Leave But Must Be Available for Probe Into Baltimore Bridge Collapse

Crew members on the cargo ship Dali can head home as soon as Thursday under an agreement that allows lawyers to question them as part of investigations into the cause of the deadly collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. …

Posted: Jun 24, 2024

Dali Crew May Leave But Must Be Available for Probe Into Baltimore Bridge Collapse

Crew members on the cargo ship Dali can head home as soon as Thursday under an agreement that allows lawyers to question them as part of investigations into the cause of the deadly collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. …

Posted: Jun 24, 2024

Home Insurance at $10,000 a Year Shows California Buyers’ Pain

California’s lofty home prices and scarce inventory already amounted to one of the most nightmarish housing markets in the US. Now, challenges securing and affording home insurance in the wildfire-prone state are making it even worse. Under the...

Posted: Jun 24, 2024

Climate Change Blamed on Deadly Heat Wave in Mexico, Southwest US

Human-caused climate change dialed up the thermostat and turbocharged the odds of this month’s killer heat that has been baking the Southwestern United States, Mexico and Central America, a new flash study found. Sizzling daytime temperatures t...

Posted: Jun 21, 2024

Warburg Pincus’ K2 Launches London-Based MGA, K2 Rubicon Specialty

K2 International, the specialty re/insurance underwriting platform that is owned by private equity firm Warburg Pincus, announced the launch of a London-based MGA called K2 Rubicon Specialty. The new MGA division was founded by four market veterans f...

Posted: Jun 21, 2024

LAAIA Posts Scholarship Winners Ahead of Upcoming Florida Convention

The Latin American Association of Insurance Agencies and the Spencer Educational Foundation have announced college risk-management and insurance scholarship winners for 2024. Mendoza Lunatti, an incoming senior at Southeastern University in Lakeland,...

Posted: Jun 21, 2024

Trucking Company Fined $65K for Refusing to Give Ohio Employee the Sabbath Off

Nationwide automotive hauling and logistics company Wheeler Trucking, doing business as Wheeler Trucking Inc. and Wheeler Logistics, Inc. will pay $65,000 and furnish equitable relief to settle a race and religion lawsuit filed by the Equal Employmen...

Posted: Jun 21, 2024

Bird Flu Hits Texas, Kansas Milk in First Sign of Impact

US milk production is starting to get hit by the bird flu virus, which first made the jump to cows earlier this year. Output in Texas and Kansas — the first states where highly pathogenic avian influenza was detected in …

Posted: Jun 21, 2024

Insured Losses from Recent South Florida Floods Reaching into the Millions

Recent flooding in south Florida caused insured losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars, from auto and homeowners claims, Aon and AM Best reported. The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation is also reminding insurers to file simplified catastr...

Posted: Jun 21, 2024

Hawaii Agrees to ‘Groundbreaking’ Settlement of Youth Climate Change Case

Hawaii on Thursday agreed to take action to decarbonize its transportation system by 2045 to settle a lawsuit by 13 young people alleging the U.S. state was violating their rights under its constitution with infrastructure that contributes to greenho...

Posted: Jun 21, 2024

Markets/Coverages: E&S MGA Ledgebrook Launches Architects & Engineers Product

Ledgebrook, the Boston-based excess-and-surplus managing general agent, announced it will be expanding its professional lines offerings by launching an architects and engineers product with its capacity provider, the insurer Obsidian. Carolyn Pearce...

Posted: Jun 21, 2024

Driver Who Blamed Injury on Rushing to Finish Schedule Fails to Deliver Evidence

A delivery driver failed to convince her employer or the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commissioner (VWCC) that she injured her knee in a fall on the job because she had to rush to complete deliveries on a schedule. She maintained that …

Posted: Jun 21, 2024

Hackers Auction Off Stolen LendingTree Consumers’ Data: Source

Hackers are selling data about consumers of the LendingTree Inc. subsidiary QuoteWizard after the company detected unauthorized access on a cloud database hosted by Snowflake Inc., according to a person familiar with the matter. There have been sever...

Posted: Jun 21, 2024