Insurance Journal
King Insurance Partners, a brokerage headquartered in Gainesville, Florida, has continued its steady growth with the acquisition of Thetford Insurance Services in Tennessee and Kentucky. Thetford, a boutique firm based in Nashville, was founded in 19...
Posted: Oct 18, 2023
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is still investigating after burglary that swiped more than $1.6 million worth of liquor from a Tampa-area warehouse. The theft happened in July at the Republic National Distributing Co. warehouse in Gib...
Posted: Oct 18, 2023
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is still investigating after burglary that swiped more than $1.6 million worth of liquor from a Tampa-area warehouse. The theft happened in July at the Republic National Distributing Co. warehouse in Gib...
Posted: Oct 18, 2023
The Justice Department (DOJ) announced it has has opened a civil rights practices investigation into the Trenton, New Jersey police department. Officials said the investigation will seek to determine “whether there are systemic violations of th...
Posted: Oct 18, 2023
The deaths of two employees of a Bronx water and sewer contractor at a construction site at John F. Kennedy International Airport could have been prevented with proper safeguards, according to investigators with the federal Occupational Safety and He...
Posted: Oct 18, 2023
California Restaurant Mutual Benefit Corp. raised $100 million in capital over the past decade from its members and through fiscal controls. CRMBC is a California self-insured group that provides workers’ compensation coverage for the restauran...
Posted: Oct 18, 2023
Global insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Washington, D.C.-based Clements Worldwide. Clements is an international insurance broker serving expats, diplomats and military personnel as well as offering commercia...
Posted: Oct 18, 2023
A federal court jury returned a $13.5 million verdict against the city of Los Angeles in a lawsuit over the death of a man after two police officers used their bodyweight on his back to restrain him, the plaintiff`s attorneys …
Posted: Oct 18, 2023
This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. A recap of AgentSync Co-Founder Jenn Knight’s panel at the 2023 Insurtech Insights Conference With the insurtech landscape becoming increasingly competitive, insurers are feeling the pressur...
Posted: Oct 17, 2023
Louisiana Insurance Commissioner-Elect Tim Temple has announced the formation of an Insurance Advisory Council that will identify legislative recommendations for upcoming legislative sessions, including a special session to address the state’s...
Posted: Oct 17, 2023
A Tulsa, Oklahoma manufacturing facility exposed employees to struck-by hazards and identified 36 violations, including 25 serious safety violations of U.S. Department of Labor regulations, three federal workplace safety and health investigations fou...
Posted: Oct 17, 2023
The International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions (IAIABC) recognized eight individuals for their service to the agency and the workers’ compensation industry at the agency’s 109th convention in Monona, Wisconsin...
Posted: Oct 17, 2023
Despite recent efforts to address the issue, medical-related websites continue to be mined for data including personal medical information, in an apparent violation of patients’ privacy rights, according to a new study. Some of the most common...
Posted: Oct 17, 2023
DETROIT (AP) – The U.S. Labor Department said that investigators found 19 safety and health violations at a General Motors joint venture electric vehicle battery plant in Ohio during a two-week period this year. The department`s Occupational Safety a...
Posted: Oct 17, 2023
Asta, the leading third-party managing agent at Lloyd’s, and Oka, the Carbon Insurance Company, announced that Lloyd’s has granted “in principle” approval for Oka syndicate-in-a-box (SIAB) 1922. Oka Syndicate 1922, which aims...
Posted: Oct 17, 2023
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Seventeen Florida sheriff`s deputies appeared in court on charges that they stole about half a million dollars in pandemic relief funds. The Broward County deputies, who are charged separately, are accused of a rang...
Posted: Oct 17, 2023
A federal judge has trimmed nine months off former Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck’s prison sentence for embezzlement, not because of his good behavior in jail, but because he has no prior criminal history. “Both Defendant and the...
Posted: Oct 17, 2023
A subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc. has acquired substantially all of the assets of Pacific Underwriters. Following the acquisition, the Pacific Underwriters team will continue doing business from their existing Seattle, Washington location as par...
Posted: Oct 17, 2023
A semi-trailer truck driver was killed when a train derailed and a bridge collapsed, spewing coal and mangled train cars across a highway near Pueblo, Colorado, on Sunday, authorities said. The driver has died, but no further details were available,...
Posted: Oct 17, 2023
A state commission has called for numerous changes to how Virginia and its communities respond to mass shootings, from establishing a victims` fund to teaching people how to slow bleeding before paramedics arrive. But the panel`s final report on a &#...
Posted: Oct 17, 2023
BMS Group Appoints Andras Bohm as Head of U.S. Capital Advisory BMS Group announced the appointment of Andras Bohm as the head of its U.S. capital advisory business and the CEO of BMS Capital Advisory, Inc. (BMS Groups’ U.S. broker-dealer). ...
Posted: Oct 17, 2023
At a reception attended by several university presidents in Manhattan, Arizona State President Michael Crowe was asked to ponder a not-too-distant future where Sun Devils football and basketball players get a cut from the billions of dollars their sp...
Posted: Oct 17, 2023
NFP, a New York City-based property/casualty broker, announced its acquisition of The Cronin Insurance Consultancy Ltd., a commercial insurance broker based in the West Midlands, England. This latest acquisition continues NFP’s growth in the re...
Posted: Oct 17, 2023
U.S. auto safety regulators said Oct. 16 that car-sharing firm Zipcar has agreed to pay a $150,000 fine after a government investigation found it allowed customers to rent vehicles with uncompleted recalls. Zipcar could be forced to pay another $150,...
Posted: Oct 17, 2023
MIAMI (AP) — A Florida executive whose family business once owned Playgirl magazine is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud for misleading investors in another of his companies — one that made...
Posted: Oct 17, 2023