Insurance Journal
Norfolk Southern’s costs related to the East Palestine derailment have grown to reach nearly $1 billion, but the railroad`s service is improving and its insurance companies have started to pay their share of the cost of the crash in eastern ...
Posted: Oct 27, 2023
Ashli Streeter entered truck driving school with high hopes of the open road and a well-paying job. The 27-year-old from Killeen took out a $7,000 loan for school and received her commercial driver’s license in May. After months of filling R...
Posted: Oct 27, 2023
A poison specialist and former medical resident at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota is charged with fatally poisoning his wife, a 32-year-old pharmacist who died days after she went to a hospital in August with stomach distress. Authorities say Connor Bowman...
Posted: Oct 27, 2023
Because its application question about how many apartments were in a New York building was considered ambiguous, an insurer has lost its bid to deny a commercial property insurance claim and rescind the policy. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ...
Posted: Oct 27, 2023
Sentry Insurance in Wisconsin announced additional donations of $350,000 to bolster the ongoing Maui wildfire recovery efforts. The contribution brings the company’s total giving to Maui non-profits for direct wildfire relief to $1 million. As...
Posted: Oct 27, 2023
Kentucky’s Insurance Commissioner has approved a 6.4% decrease in average workers’ compensation loss costs for the state, making it the 18th consecutive drop in costs for most Kentucky employers. “The decreased claim figures make Ke...
Posted: Oct 26, 2023
Hurricane Otis left a trail of destruction in Acapulco after tearing into the historic Mexican beach town with wind speeds of 165 miles (266 kilometers) per hour, smashing shops and wrecking apartment buildings and hotels. State authorities have repo...
Posted: Oct 26, 2023
AgentSync doubles down on building the most modern and connected producer management and compliance solutions to provide flexibility in distribution channels for carriers, agencies, and MGAs DENVER, CO, October 26, 2023 — AgentSync, the leader in mod...
Posted: Oct 26, 2023
WOODBRIDGE, N.J., October 26, 2023 — NIP Group, a premier insurance and risk intermediary, is proud to unveil the Edge Series, a suite of monoline insurance products purposefully crafted for over 50 classes within the construction and agricultural in...
Posted: Oct 26, 2023
RMS Insurance Brokerage, LLC announced that it has acquired Garden City, New York-based Clancy & Clancy Brokerage LTD (C&C). An independent insurance agency founded in 1956 by the late Maureen and Cummin Clancy, C&C offers commercial and...
Posted: Oct 26, 2023
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has raised the federal cost share for funding assistance, potentially making millions more dollars available for Hurricane Ian recovery efforts in Florida, the agency said Wednesday. FEMA Administrator Deanne C...
Posted: Oct 26, 2023
A federal jury found Baylor University negligent in a Title IX lawsuit and awarded $270,000 to a former student who alleged she was physically abused by a football player in 2014 during a period of wide- ranging scandal at the …
Posted: Oct 26, 2023
Flights were delayed and canceled this week at Houston`s William P. Hobby Airport as crews cleaned up after two private jets clipped wings when they were moving on the airfield, officials said. No injuries were reported and the city fire …
Posted: Oct 26, 2023
More than two-thirds of Amazon.com Inc. US warehouse workers surveyed by researchers reported that they took unpaid time off to recover from pain or exhaustion sustained on the job. The new national study, published Wednesday by the University of Ill...
Posted: Oct 26, 2023
Two commercial turkey farms in Iowa have been hit by the reemerging highly pathogenic bird flu, causing about 100,000 birds to be killed to prevent the disease from spreading. The Iowa Department of Agriculture reported the infected commercial poultr...
Posted: Oct 26, 2023
Two commercial turkey farms in Iowa have been hit by the reemerging highly pathogenic bird flu, causing about 100,000 birds to be killed to prevent the disease from spreading. The Iowa Department of Agriculture reported the infected commercial poultr...
Posted: Oct 26, 2023
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ripped into Michigan State University, accusing the school of “no clear unified leadership” amid rancor on the governing board and other unflattering incidents. Whitmer’s statement came after two trustees over...
Posted: Oct 26, 2023
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Lockton Re and DUAL Deutschland. A summary of these new hires follows here. Lockton Re Names Aon’s Wilkinson in New Role as International Head of Analytics Lockton Re, the reins...
Posted: Oct 26, 2023
The toll from a series of crashes on a Louisiana interstate rose to eight dead and 63 injured Tuesday evening, a day after a “super fog” of marsh fire smoke and dense fog snared more than 160 vehicles in the …
Posted: Oct 26, 2023
The toll from a series of crashes on a Louisiana interstate rose to eight dead and 63 injured Tuesday evening, a day after a “super fog” of marsh fire smoke and dense fog snared more than 160 vehicles in the …
Posted: Oct 26, 2023
Upfort raised $8 million in a Series A funding round led by SYN Ventures, with participation of Eniac Ventures and Fika Ventures, which co-led Upfort’s seed round. Upfort’s goal is to simplify the way brokers and insurers sell insurance a...
Posted: Oct 26, 2023
Upfort raised $8 million in a Series A funding round led by SYN Ventures, with participation of Eniac Ventures and Fika Ventures, which co-led Upfort’s seed round. Upfort’s goal is to simplify the way brokers and insurers sell insurance a...
Posted: Oct 26, 2023
Sam Bankman-Fried could take the stand at his fraud trial as soon as Thursday, when prosecutors are set to finish presenting their case accusing the founder of now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX of stealing billions of dollars from customers. D...
Posted: Oct 26, 2023
A cruise operator that failed to cancel a voyage from Sydney that led to a major COVID-19 outbreak was ruled negligent in its duty of care to passengers in an Australian class-action case Wednesday. The Ruby Princess ocean liner left …
Posted: Oct 26, 2023
Estonia’s investigation into a damaged Baltic Sea telecoms cable will focus on the actions of a Chinese-owned vessel, the country’s prosecutor general said, after Finland blamed damage to a nearby pipeline on a ship. Early on Oct. 8, a ga...
Posted: Oct 26, 2023