Insurance Journal
The National Security Agency is starting an artificial intelligence security center – a crucial mission as AI capabilities are increasingly acquired, developed and integrated into U.S. defense and intelligence systems, the agency`s outgoing director...
Posted: Oct 05, 2023
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought against Texas A&M University claiming a faculty fellowship program at the flagship in College Station discriminated against white and Asian male candidates. In a decision published Friday, U.S. Dist...
Posted: Oct 05, 2023
Iowa farmers and landowners who plant fall cover crops will soon have the opportunity to apply for a $5 per acre discount on their spring crop insurance premiums, Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced. Farmers and landowners may start ...
Posted: Oct 05, 2023
MGT Partners LLC acquired CM Select Insurance Company from Church Mutual Holding Company Inc. The deal is subject to approval of regulatory filings. CM Select will be rebranded as MGT Insurance and operate as a tech-enabled risk solutions platform fo...
Posted: Oct 05, 2023
MGT Partners LLC acquired CM Select Insurance Company from Church Mutual Holding Company Inc. The deal is subject to approval of regulatory filings. CM Select will be rebranded as MGT Insurance and operate as a tech-enabled risk solutions platform fo...
Posted: Oct 05, 2023
A judge overseeing Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial pounded his fists in frustration with the former U.S. president’s lawyers on Wednesday for what he described as redundant and “ridiculous” cross-examination of a witness. The...
Posted: Oct 05, 2023
Some projects designed to make New York City’s transit system more resilient in severe weather are behind schedule or over budget, according to an audit released on the same day that flash floods forced the closing of several subway lines. R...
Posted: Oct 05, 2023
Just two days before his criminal trial started this week in federal court in New York, FTX Trading founder Sam Bankman-Fried filed suit in federal court in California against his excess insurance company seeking payment of legal costs. The suit R...
Posted: Oct 04, 2023
Just two days before his criminal trial started this week in federal court in New York, FTX Trading founder Sam Bankman-Fried filed suit in federal court in California against his excess insurance company seeking payment of legal costs. The suit R...
Posted: Oct 04, 2023
Written premium in 2022 was 14% higher than 2021 and almost at the pre-pandemic level – an increase was driven by higher employee wage levels and the economic Recovery, according to a new report out on Wednesday from the Workers’ …
Posted: Oct 04, 2023
A Black former factory worker for Tesla lost his bid on Wednesday for a third trial in his race discrimination lawsuit against the electric carmaker, after a California federal judge rejected his claims that the company’s lawyers had engaged in...
Posted: Oct 04, 2023
Nearly two months after the deadly Maui wildfires, Hawaiian Electric Co. revealed the limited scope of insurance coverage it holds in the face of potentially billions of dollars in damage claims. Hawaiian Electric has $165 million in annual general l...
Posted: Oct 04, 2023
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at DUAL Europe and Generali. A summary of these new hires follows here. DUAL Launches Marine Hub in Rotterdam, Hiring 2 Former MS Amlin Underwriters DUAL Europe announced its continued e...
Posted: Oct 04, 2023
Farmers Insurance Group of Cos. and United Services Automobile Association (USAA) have increased homeowners insurance rates by nearly 15% each to lead all other insurers. According to S&P Global Market Intelligence‘s RateWatch application,...
Posted: Oct 04, 2023
A Georgia woman has been charged with faking hospital reports to the tune of $1.5 million in an effort to defraud her insurance companies, authorities said. Denna Rochelle Conaway, 54, of Rome, Georgia, claimed that her son was involved in …
Posted: Oct 04, 2023
Arthur J. Gallagher, the global insurance brokerage and consulting firm, has acquired Kentucky-based Altman Insurance Services, an employee benefits brokerage and consultancy, Gallagher said in a news release Wednesday. Terms of the deal were not dis...
Posted: Oct 04, 2023
Former major league pitcher Trevor Bauer and a woman who accused him of beating and sexually assaulting her in 2021 have settled their legal dispute, Bauer`s attorneys said Monday. “Both of their respective claims have been withdrawn with preju...
Posted: Oct 04, 2023
Elon Musk was ordered by a U.S. judge to face most of a lawsuit claiming he defrauded former Twitter shareholders last year by waiting too long to disclose that he had invested in the social media company, which he later …
Posted: Oct 04, 2023
One Call, a health care management firm for the workers’ compensation industry, has named Howard Cutler chief strategy and network officer. The Jacksonville-based company said in a news release that Cutler will oversee One Call’s provider...
Posted: Oct 04, 2023
Risk Strategies Names Bussiere Commercial Lines Leader, New York Region Risk Strategies, headquartered in Boston, Mass., appointed Margaret Bussiere as commercial lines leader, New York region. Bussiere brings nearly 25 years of insurance industry ex...
Posted: Oct 04, 2023
Selective Insurance Group said its chief financial officer, Mark Wilcox, has resigned to hold the same position elsewhere. Wilcox, also executive vice president, will leave Nov. 3. He will continue in the CFO role under Selective reports third quarte...
Posted: Oct 04, 2023
Three people are dead after a Philippine fishing boat collided with an oil tanker in what the nation’s coast guard described as an accident near a disputed South China Sea shoal. Survivor accounts of the tanker fit the description of …
Posted: Oct 04, 2023
The global average temperature for September broke records by such an absurd margin that climate experts are struggling to describe the phenomenon. “This month was — in my professional opinion as a climate scientist — absolutely gobsmackingly b...
Posted: Oct 04, 2023
A global central bank test lab has designed a prototype bitcoin monitoring system aimed at giving authorities a clearer picture on how, when and where the cryptocurrency is used. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) project, codenamed Atlas,...
Posted: Oct 04, 2023
They are relatively easy to fake. Frequently get lost. And can add huge amounts of time to any journey. Yet paper documents still rule in the $25 trillion global cargo trade with four billion of them in circulation at any …
Posted: Oct 04, 2023