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Specialty Program Group (SPG) LLC announced that Travis Carpenter has joined the organization as Vice President of Business Development for its Infrastructure Programs Division. In this role, Carpenter will lead national sales and distribution initia...
Posted: Jan 15, 2026
Specialty Program Group (SPG) LLC announced that Travis Carpenter has joined the organization as vice president of business development for its Infrastructure Programs Division. In this role, Carpenter will lead national sales and distribution initia...
Posted: Jan 15, 2026
Specialty Program Group (SPG) LLC announced that Travis Carpenter has joined the organization as vice president of business development for its Infrastructure Programs Division. In this role, Carpenter will lead national sales and distribution initia...
Posted: Jan 15, 2026
Last year was the third hottest on record, according to an analysis of temperature data released Wednesday by three independent agencies. That puts 2025 just behind the second-hottest year, 2023, and the hottest, 2024. What makes this result extraord...
Posted: Jan 15, 2026
Oracle was sued on Wednesday by bondholders who say they suffered losses because the company chaired by billionaire Larry Ellison concealed its need to sell significant additional debt to build out its artificial intelligence infrastructure. The prop...
Posted: Jan 15, 2026
Florida’s orange harvest is expected to fall to the lowest in nearly a century, as shrinking groves continue to offset improvements in yields. The state is seen producing 12 million boxes of fruit in the 2025-26 season, down 2% from …
Posted: Jan 15, 2026
A more than $182 million settlement has been reached with victims of a deadly 2015 collision between a train and an SUV at a suburban New York crossing. The majority of the settlement with Metro-North Railroad goes to the families …
Posted: Jan 15, 2026
Satellite Agency Network Group, Inc. (SAN), headquartered in Hampton, New Hampshire, hired Sherri Warcholic as regional vice president for Connecticut and Rhode Island. Warcholic will focus on identifying and developing membership opportunities, supp...
Posted: Jan 15, 2026
Satellite Agency Network Group, Inc. (SAN), headquartered in Hampton, New Hampshire, hired Sherri Warcholic as regional vice president for Connecticut and Rhode Island. Warcholic will focus on identifying and developing membership opportunities, supp...
Posted: Jan 15, 2026
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, is under investigation by the California attorney general’s office after the company’s Grok chatbot was allegedly used to create thousands of sexualized images of women and children...
Posted: Jan 15, 2026
Two large California home insurers will be raising rates for by an average of 6.9% this year, filings with the California Department of Insurance show. CSAA will begin rate increases for nearly 481,800 homeowners starting in March. Mercury Insurance...
Posted: Jan 15, 2026
Two large California home insurers will be raising rates for by an average of 6.9% this year, filings with the California Department of Insurance show. CSAA will begin rate increases for nearly 481,800 homeowners starting in March. Mercury Insurance...
Posted: Jan 15, 2026
Vehicle manufacturer Tesla has won dismissal of a product liability lawsuit claiming that a defective touchscreen in a 2021 Tesla caused an accident. Judge Nelson Roman in federal district court in New York granted Tesla summary judgment because the...
Posted: Jan 15, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court issued three decisions on Wednesday but did not decide the closely watched dispute over the legality of President Donald Trump‘s global tariffs. The court did not announce the next date when it will issue rulings. It R...
Posted: Jan 15, 2026
Verizon Communications Inc. is suffering a widespread service outage, with thousands of users reporting lack of cell service on Wednesday afternoon. Verizon, the largest US wireless provider, said it was aware of the issue and trying to resolve the p...
Posted: Jan 14, 2026
Updates a previously posted story about the outage. Verizon Communications Inc. said service was restored on its wireless network after a widespread outage across the US that lasted for most of the day on Wednesday. “The outage has been resolve...
Posted: Jan 14, 2026
From their home on Charleston’s, West Virginia’s West Side, Tina and Matt Glaspey watched the house on the corner of First Avenue and Fitzgerald Street go downhill fast. A family with a young daughter left because they didn’t feel s...
Posted: Jan 14, 2026
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by CrowdStrike shareholders who said the cybersecurity company defrauded them by concealing its inadequate software testing and quality assurance procedures, before a July 2024 outage crashed more than 8 million Mi...
Posted: Jan 14, 2026
A suspect in an arson fire at a synagogue that was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan decades ago admitted to targeting the historic institution because it’s a Jewish house of worship and confessed what he had done to his …
Posted: Jan 14, 2026
Florida-based global insurance broker The Baldwin Group announced it has completed the acquisition of Creisoft, Inc. and its subsidiaries, collectively known as Obie, a Chicago-based embedded insurance distribution business specializing in insurance...
Posted: Jan 14, 2026
Brokerage ALKEME Insurance said it has acquired five agencies over the last quarter to enhance its property/casualty offerings while expanding its employee benefits capabilities across the United States. “With strong property and casualty capab...
Posted: Jan 14, 2026
Amerisure, headquartered in Farmington Hills, Michigan, named Doug Roggenbaum vice president of strategic growth. Roggenbaum brings nearly four decades of experience with Amerisure, having joined the organization in 1987. He was named regional vice p...
Posted: Jan 14, 2026
Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt announced a Sedgwick county man has been sentenced to 24 months of probation for insurance and identity fraud. Marquez Gails, age 43, pleaded guilty on January 9, 2026, in Sedgwick County District Court to...
Posted: Jan 14, 2026
Massachusetts is enacting a series of safety reforms at assisted living facilities including increased inspections and better access to records following a fire last year that killed 10 residents, the governor announced Monday. The recommendations, d...
Posted: Jan 14, 2026
The first 911 call from the historic Camp Mystic on the Guadalupe River came in at 3:57 a.m., when a caller told the dispatcher she was stranded on a hill and cabins around her were filling with water. Around the …
Posted: Jan 14, 2026