Insurance Journal
More than 400 earthquakes have been detected beneath Washington`s Mount St. Helens in recent months, though there are no signs of an imminent eruption, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Most of the quakes over a three-month span beginning in &...
Posted: Nov 16, 2023
More than 400 earthquakes have been detected beneath Washington`s Mount St. Helens in recent months, though there are no signs of an imminent eruption, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Most of the quakes over a three-month span beginning in &...
Posted: Nov 16, 2023
Donald Trump blamed his accountants. So did the two sons he entrusted to run his company. Now, as they mount their defense in the civil fraud trial threatening the former president’s real estate empire, his lawyers are too. Trump’s lawyer...
Posted: Nov 16, 2023
New York City officials say retailers and food delivery companies must do more to halt the proliferation of unsafe e-bike and e-scooter batteries, after a fire blamed on an electric scooter`s lithium ion battery killed three people over the weekend....
Posted: Nov 16, 2023
Zurich Insurance Group announced that its subsidiary, Farmers Group Inc. (FGI), has agreed to acquire three insurance brokers of the Farmers Exchanges for US$760 million. The deal also includes the Farmers Exchanges’ flood program servicing arm...
Posted: Nov 16, 2023
Zurich Insurance Group announced that its subsidiary, Farmers Group Inc. (FGI), has agreed to acquire three insurance brokers of the Farmers Exchanges for US$760 million. The deal also includes the Farmers Exchanges’ flood program servicing arm...
Posted: Nov 16, 2023
The concept of working from home isn’t entirely new. In fact, it’s been around since well before the digital age, although most “work from home” jobs back then were agricultural or artisan in nature. Over time, as technology a...
Posted: Nov 16, 2023
The nearly year-long saga involving Root Inc. and its former chief marketing officer continues – with him in county jail. Brinson Caleb “BC” Silver, Root’s CMO from November 8, 2021 to November 9, 2022, has been in jail in Butler &#...
Posted: Nov 16, 2023
The poorest and most vulnerable countries do not benefit enough from pre-arranged financing to cope with disasters and are most exposed to the losses and damage caused by climate change, the London-based Centre for Disaster Protection said on Thursda...
Posted: Nov 16, 2023
Before he committed mass murder in Colorado late last year, Anderson Lee Aldrich was a lively presence among a group of friends who regularly assembled online for hours to chat, play video games and trade internet memes. The four irreverent …
Posted: Nov 16, 2023
Before he committed mass murder in Colorado late last year, Anderson Lee Aldrich was a lively presence among a group of friends who regularly assembled online for hours to chat, play video games and trade internet memes. The four irreverent …
Posted: Nov 16, 2023
n independent U.S. aviation review team called on Wednesday for “urgent action” to prevent plane crashes, and made a series of recommendations to boost safety after a series of close calls involving passenger jets. The panel, named by the...
Posted: Nov 16, 2023
The chief information security officer at Clorox Co. has left the company as it works to recover from a hack that devastated its supply chain earlier this year. Amy Bogac departed after about two and a half years in the …
Posted: Nov 16, 2023
Editor’s note: For almost three decades, Florida contractors and building officials have operated under two different building codes: One for most of the state and another for the southeastern corner – Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, known as...
Posted: Nov 16, 2023
The state of New York has filed a lawsuit against PepsiCo Inc. for allegedly harming the public and the environment with its single-use plastic bottles, caps and wrappers. The suit, brought by the office of Attorney General Letitia James, maintains &...
Posted: Nov 16, 2023
Josh Tyndell joined the Lockton company in its Seattle, Wash. office. Tyndell has 20 years of experience in the insurance industry. Before joining Lockton, he was a founding partner at BK-JET Group which was acquired by HUB International in 2018. ...
Posted: Nov 16, 2023
Josh Tyndell joined the Lockton company in its Seattle, Wash. office. Tyndell has 20 years of experience in the insurance industry. Before joining Lockton, he was a founding partner at BK-JET Group which was acquired by HUB International in 2018. ...
Posted: Nov 16, 2023
Businesses in Connecticut will receive a nearly 10% decrease in rates for workers’ compensation insurance beginning on January 1, 2024. The Connecticut Insurance Department has approved an annual workers’ compensation rate filing for 2024...
Posted: Nov 16, 2023
A lawsuit filed on Monday accuses the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) and more than two dozen brokerages and companies of conspiring to artificially inflate commissions paid to agents who help sell residential real estate in Manhattan. The R...
Posted: Nov 16, 2023
There is no longer any question of how to prevent high-intensity, often catastrophic, wildfires that have become increasingly frequent across the Western U.S., according to a new study by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public He...
Posted: Nov 16, 2023
Strategic Risk Solutions (SRS), the Concord, Mass.-based independent insurance company manager, announced the launch of its latest alternative risk transfer (ART) venture: a managing general underwriter called “Altitude.” In a strategic m...
Posted: Nov 16, 2023
Representatives from finance firms across the City of London said more work was needed to tackle gaping gender disparities in the industry, even after companies have made gains in the past five years. Trade groups representing hedge funds, banks and...
Posted: Nov 16, 2023
Atlantic American Corp., the holding company for property/casualty insurer American Southern Insurance Co., Bankers Fidelity Life, and an employee benefits unit, this week reported third-quarter net income of $1.8 million, an improvement over the sam...
Posted: Nov 15, 2023
Inszone Insurance Services, a national provider of commercial, personal, and benefits insurance, has acquired Max Breisse Insurance Agency. Based in Katy, Texas, the agency was founded by Max Briesse in September of 2007. The physical office in Katy...
Posted: Nov 15, 2023
ETNA, Ohio (AP) – A charter bus carrying students from a high school was rear- ended by a semi-truck on an Ohio highway Tuesday morning, leaving three people dead and 15 others injured, according to an emergency official. The charter …
Posted: Nov 15, 2023