Insurance Journal
A school district in West Virginia has reached settlements totaling over $11 million in lawsuits involving a teacher who abused special education students in her classroom, according to a media report. Seven lawsuits against Nancy Boggs and the Kanaw...
Posted: Aug 03, 2023
BALTIMORE (AP) — More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells without her knowledge, a lawyer for her descendants said they have reached a settlement with a biotechnology company that the...
Posted: Aug 03, 2023
A construction company whose barges came loose from their moorings during Hurricane Sally and damaged the Pensacola Bay Bridge will have to cope with some 900 claims by businesses and other parties that say they suffered economic damages while the &#...
Posted: Aug 03, 2023
Ukraine is considering the possibility of insuring ships going through the “grain corridor,” news agency Interfax-Ukraine reported on Thursday, citing Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal. “Now we are discussing in the government and, I am...
Posted: Aug 03, 2023
AXA announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Laya Healthcare Ltd. from Corebridge Financial Inc., a subsidiary of AIG. Laya has a leading position in the Irish health market with approximately a 28% market share, serving close to …
Posted: Aug 03, 2023
Russia attacked Ukraine’s main inland port across the Danube River from Romania on Wednesday, sending global food prices higher as it ramped up its use of force to prevent Ukraine from exporting grain. The drone attacks destroyed buildings in t...
Posted: Aug 03, 2023
China`s capital has recorded its heaviest rainfall in at least 140 years over the past few days. The city recorded 744.8 millimeters (29.3 inches) of rain between Saturday and Wednesday morning, the Beijing Meteorological Bureau said on Wednesday. Th...
Posted: Aug 03, 2023
A cyberattack on Norway’s government ministries uncovered last week had exploited a vulnerability linked to mobile device management and lasted at least four months, according to Norwegian and US cybersecurity agencies. A vulnerability affectin...
Posted: Aug 03, 2023
Agence France-Presse (AFP) said on Wednesday it filed a lawsuit in Paris against Elon Musk’s X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, accusing it of failing to discuss potential payment for the distribution of the news agency’s...
Posted: Aug 03, 2023
With 46 straight days of 100-degree heat and coastal waters approaching hot-tub temperatures, Miami can seem like a clear example of the costs of a warming world. But analysts at S&P Global Inc. aren’t sweating it. They recently upgraded Mi...
Posted: Aug 03, 2023
Europeans are among the least insured against certain types of extreme weather and other natural disasters in the developed world, a predicament made more worrisome as the continent suffers a summer of devastating heat, wildfires and drought. In rece...
Posted: Aug 03, 2023
Retail broker McGriff said it has restructured its personal lines operations to allow for direct support to the private client sales and service functions within the division, following a period of substantial growth and profitability for the line of...
Posted: Aug 03, 2023
Car insurance premiums are skyrocketing primarily due to rising auto parts costs and extreme weather, according to virtual insurance agent platform Insurify’s Q3 2023 Mid-Year Auto Insurance Trends Report. In the first six months of this year,...
Posted: Aug 03, 2023
The Motor Carrier Insurance Education Foundation (MCIEF), a nonprofit that educates insurance professionals serving the transportation industry, has named Dave Heller as a Thomas Ruke Fellow. The fellowship honors the most dedicated educators and pro...
Posted: Aug 03, 2023
A Pennsylvania state court judge ruled that presidential immunity is broad enough to protect Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was rigged, even if he didn’t really believe the conspiracy. Judge Michael Erdos in the Philad...
Posted: Aug 03, 2023
Lawyers for thousands of people who claim Johnson & Johnson’s talc-based powders caused them to develop cancer on Wednesday urged a U.S. judge to temporarily block the company from seeking bankruptcy protection for a third time for its talc...
Posted: Aug 03, 2023
A recently brewing and critical California issue is the conflict between industry’s desire to file catastrophe rating models to inform California property rates and California’s laws allowing a public inspection of rate filings. A large m...
Posted: Aug 03, 2023
The estate of a Maryland man who, along with one of his children, was killed in a fire in his home is not entitled to all of the proceeds from the fire insurance policy because the homeowner still had a …
Posted: Aug 03, 2023
This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. Due to the ever-changing insurance market, property and casualty insurers across the country face multiple challenges today that can commonly disrupt their business planning and operations. The in...
Posted: Aug 02, 2023
Lizzo has been sued by three former dancers who accuse the Grammy winner of sexual harassment and allege the singer and her production company created a hostile work environment. The civil lawsuit filed this Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior ...
Posted: Aug 02, 2023
The disruption in the cannabis space is having an impact on that insurance specialty from coast to coast, a new report out from Amwins shows. The report, Amwins State of The Market Report 2023: A Focus on the Cannabis Market, …
Posted: Aug 02, 2023
Ryan Specialty Appoints Cornelli to Board of Directors Ryan Specialty Holdings, Inc., headquartered in Chicago, Ill., appointed Francesca Cornelli, dean of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, to its board of directors. She w...
Posted: Aug 02, 2023
Progressive Insurance said it will consolidate its corporate headquarters in Northeast Ohio as more employees opt to work from home. Progressive will consolidate Campus One (on Wilson Mills Rd.) location to Campus Two (on North Commons Blvd.) in Mayf...
Posted: Aug 02, 2023
NR West, the parent company of The Insurance Exchange, a premier Dallas-based General Agency, announced that it has completed its acquisition of Foster Benefit Resources, a full-service General Agency specializing in fully insured and self-funded emp...
Posted: Aug 02, 2023
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Devyn Reiley, the daughter of two-time Super Bowl winner Bruce Collie, was one of four people who died in two separate crashes at a Wisconsin aircraft convention over the weekend, event organizers say. Reiley, 30, was ̷...
Posted: Aug 02, 2023