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New Hampshire to Receive $20M Grant to Help Reconstruct Eroded Seawalls

New Hampshire is getting a $20 million federal grant to help reconstruct coastal seawalls eroded by storms and flooding and received a disaster aid declaration to recuperate costs from a storm in January, officials said Monday. The grant, announced b...

Posted: Apr 24, 2024

Global Insurance Prices Continue Moderating as Rates Decline in Most Regions: Marsh

Global commercial insurance rates increased by 1% on average in the first quarter of 2024, compared with a 2% increase in Q4 2023, according to the Global Insurance Market Index published by Marsh, the insurance brokerage business of Marsh McLennan....

Posted: Apr 24, 2024

UK Firms Told to ‘Urgently Review’ Green Claims Amid Crackdown

Firms operating in the UK are being advised to go through any products and services around which some sort of sustainability claim has been made, to ensure they’re not in the crosshairs of a regulatory crackdown that’s due to take …

Posted: Apr 24, 2024

Republican Senators’ FARMER Act to Boost Crop Insurance Coverage

Republican senators this month introduced legislation they say would increase support for crop insurance and make higher levels of coverage more affordable to farmers. Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D) proposed the Federal Agriculture Risk Management Enhancem...

Posted: Apr 24, 2024

Republican Senators FARMER Act to Boost Crop Insurance Coverage

Republican senators this month introduced legislation they say would increase support for crop insurance and make higher levels of coverage more affordable to farmers. Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D) proposed the Federal Agriculture Risk Management Enhancem...

Posted: Apr 24, 2024

Republican Senators’ FARMER Act Seeks to Boost Crop Insurance Coverage

Republican senators this month introduced legislation they say would increase support for crop insurance and make higher levels of coverage more affordable to farmers. Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D) proposed the Federal Agriculture Risk Management Enhancem...

Posted: Apr 24, 2024

Catastrophe Monitoring Firm ICEYE Completes $93 Million Funding Round

ICEYE, the microsatellite manufacturer and catastrophe monitoring company, announced definitive agreement signed for an oversubscribed $93 million growth funding round. The financing will further accelerate investment in the world’s largest con...

Posted: Apr 24, 2024

Cleveland to Pay $4.8M to Family of 13-Year-Old Killed During Police Chase

CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland will pay $4.8 million to the family of a 13-year-old girl killed when a stolen car driven by a teenage carjacker jumped a curb during a police pursuit and struck her. The settlement attorneys for the …

Posted: Apr 24, 2024

China’s Ping An Insurance Reports 4.3% Drop in Q1 Net Profit

Ping An Insurance’s first-quarter net profit fell 4.3%, hit by shrinking returns from property and casualty insurance as well as its asset management operations, the Chinese insurance giant reported on Tuesday. Turbulence in China’s stock...

Posted: Apr 24, 2024

UK’s Jensten Acquires Lift and Escalator Specialist Broker Robert Gerrard & Co.

Jensten is set to further scale its scheme and affinities business with the acquisition of UK broker Robert Gerrard & Co. The deal, which is subject to regulatory approval, will introduce a dedicated team of 19 professionals and an office …

Posted: Apr 24, 2024

Standard Chartered Faces £1.5 Billion UK Claim in Iran Sanction Case

Standard Chartered Plc is facing about £1.5 billion ($1.9 billion) worth of investor claims at a London trial over allegations it systematically breached Iranian sanctions to win new business. A London judge ruled on Friday [April 19] that the trial,...

Posted: Apr 24, 2024

Jury Awards $80M to 3 Former Zurich NA Employees for Wrongful Termination

Zurich North America was ordered by a California jury to pay three former employees a total of about $80.2 million to end a wrongful termination case earlier this month. Melinda Brantley, Nicholas Lardie, and Daniel Koos worked as claims examiners &#...

Posted: Apr 24, 2024

CEO Viewpoint: Unlocking the Potential of Generative AI in Insurance

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked a lot of interest from insurers and reinsurers because of its potential to revolutionize innovation, cut costs and improve the customer experience. Generative AI (or “Gen AI”) is the ter...

Posted: Apr 24, 2024

AM Best Places Credit Ratings of GeoVera Insurance Group Members Under Review

AM Best placed under review with developing implications the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) of “a” (Excellent) of the members of GeoVera Insurance Group in Fairfiel...

Posted: Apr 24, 2024

Omaha National Acquires Sutter Insurance in California

Omaha National Group Inc. acquired Sutter Insurance Co., a California domiciled carrier. Sutter Insurance has been renamed Omaha National Casualty Co. Omaha National also owns Omaha National Insurance Co., which is domiciled in Nebraska. Omaha Nation...

Posted: Apr 24, 2024

Property Owner Sued for Negligece in Hiring of Worker With Criminal Record

April Hurley’s attacker entered her apartment after identifying himself as the building maintenance man — a job he should never have obtained, according to a lawsuit filed Monday that accuses the property owner and management company of engagin...

Posted: Apr 24, 2024

Hawaii Lawmakers Take Aim at Vacation Rentals After Wildfire Amplifies Housing Crisis

Amy Chadwick spent years scrimping and saving as a single mother of two to buy a house in the town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui. But after a devastating fire leveled Lahaina in August and reduced Chadwick’s …

Posted: Apr 24, 2024

UnitedHealth Says Hackers Possibly Stole Large Number of Americans’ Data

UnitedHealth Group said on Monday that hackers stole health and personal data of potentially a “substantial proportion” of Americans from its systems in February, as the largest U.S. health insurer scrambles to contain the damage. The int...

Posted: Apr 23, 2024

Your Flight Plan to Aircraft Insurance

This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. Before you purchase your aircraft, familiarize yourself with the types of aviation coverage available, the considerations that impact what you need and how much it will cost, along &#823...

Posted: Apr 23, 2024

Iowa Governor Signs Bill Lowering Reinsurance Tax for Captive Companies

Iowa will lower the amount of reinsurance tax due from some captive companies under a bill signed by Governor Kim Reynolds last week. HF 2636 lowers the tax on premiums written above $60 million to 0.02 percent, down from 5 …

Posted: Apr 23, 2024

Chubb Records 13.3% Uptick in Q1 Net Income on Underwriting

Chubb started 2024 off with first quarter net income up 13.3%, compared to the same time a year ago, to about $2.1 billion. The first three months of 2024 followed a year Chubb CEO Evan G. Greenberg called the “best …

Posted: Apr 23, 2024

Michigan Doctor Faces Trial for Alleged $400K Disability Insurance Fraud

A Michigan doctor was bound over last week in the 48th District Court in Bloomfield Hills on charges stemming from an allegedly fraudulent disability insurance claim and subsequent years of receiving fraudulent payments, Michigan Attorney General Dan...

Posted: Apr 23, 2024

Ohio Manufacturer Fined $314K Following Fatal Workplace Incident

An Ohio subsidiary of one of the world’s largest automotive suppliers could have prevented a 26-year-old employee in Franklin from being fatally crushed in October 2023 if the company had provided proper machine guarding. Investigators with the...

Posted: Apr 23, 2024

People Moves: Arch Insurance International Promotes Valder to Deputy CEO; Carbon Underwriting Taps E...

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Arch Insurance International and the MGA Carbon Underwriting. A summary of these new hires follow here. Arch Insurance International Promotes Valder to Deputy CEO Arch Insurance Inter...

Posted: Apr 23, 2024

Baltimore to Court: ‘No Way’ Should Ship’s Liability for Bridge Collapse Be Limited

The city of Baltimore is fighting the attempt by the owner and operator of the cargo ship Dali that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge to limit their liability under maritime law. “In no way should their liability be …

Posted: Apr 23, 2024