Insurance Journal

Wesco Settles Coverage Dispute Over $36 Million IRA Financial Cyber Attack

Wesco Insurance, a part of AmTrust, has agreed to settle its dispute with a financial firm that lost millions in retirees’ money in a well publicized 2022 cyber attack. The settlement notice, filed in federal court in Miami, did not …

Posted: Jul 25, 2023

PointeNorth Group Acquires Cooper Agency in Georgia

PointeNorth Insurance Group, one of the largest locally owned agencies in the Southeast, has acquired Cooper Insurance & Associates in McDonough, Georgia, the company announced. Cooper, founded in 1988, offers liability, physical damage, cargo, w...

Posted: Jul 25, 2023

One Year Old, US Climate Law is Turbocharging Clean Energy, Raising Issues for Insurers

On a recent day under the July sun, three men heaved solar panels onto the roof of a roomy, two-story house near the banks of the Kentucky River, a few miles upstream from the state capitol where lawmakers have promoted …

Posted: Jul 25, 2023

OSHA Fines Boston’s Dumpling Maker Chinese Spaghetti Factory $190K for Safety Lapses

When federal workplace safety inspectors returned to a Boston food plant in March 2023, they said they discovered the plant’s operator — Chinese Spaghetti Factory Inc. — still had not installed required safety guards on a dumpling machine&#8217...

Posted: Jul 25, 2023

Barring Change, Allstate May Exit California Property Market Completely

The topic of a recent California insurance department workshop was the potential use of catastrophe modeling in ratemaking, but carrier representatives and consumers took the opportunity to air concerns about other problems in the state’s insur...

Posted: Jul 25, 2023

OSHA Fines Boston’s Dumpling Maker Chinese Spaghetti Factory $190K

When federal workplace safety inspectors returned to a Boston food plant in March 2023, they said they discovered the plant’s operator — Chinese Spaghetti Factory Inc. — still had not installed required safety guards on a dumpling machine&#8217...

Posted: Jul 25, 2023

Brown & Brown to Acquire Wholesale Broker New England Excess Exchange

Florida-based global insurance broker Brown & Brown, Inc. has agreed to acquire Vermont-based wholesale broker New England Excess Exchange (NEEE). The acquisition will be through Bridge Specialty Group, the wholesale insurance division of Brown &...

Posted: Jul 25, 2023

Connecticut Seeks Agriculture Disaster Declaration Due To Severe Flooding of Farms

Governor Ned Lamont has submitted a request to the U.S. Department of Agriculture for a federal agriculture disaster declaration for all eight counties in Connecticut due to the significant damage that occurred to farms and crops statewide from flood...

Posted: Jul 25, 2023

Pastor to Go to Jail, Repay Church and Insurer for Stealing $130K to Cover Gambling Debts

A New Hampshire executive pastor has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing about $130,000 from his church to pay off gambling debts and make purchases. Gregory Neal, of Barrington, 45, was sentenced in federal court Wednesday and …

Posted: Jul 25, 2023

Deck Collapse at Montana Country Club Leaves 30-Pluys Injured During Popular Golf Tournament

More than 30 people were injured when a deck collapsed at a Montana country club during a weekend golf tournament, police and city officials said. The second-story patio floor of Billings` Briarwood Country Club broke and gave way Saturday evening. &...

Posted: Jul 24, 2023

Deck Collapse at Montana Country Club Leaves 30-Plus Injured During Popular Golf Tournament

More than 30 people were injured when a deck collapsed at a Montana country club during a weekend golf tournament, police and city officials said. The second-story patio floor of Billings` Briarwood Country Club broke and gave way Saturday evening. &...

Posted: Jul 24, 2023

Farmers Forced to Rescind Thousands of Nonrenewal Notices in Georgia

About the same time that it announced a major pull-back from the Florida and California markets, Famers Insurance also sent thousands of nonrenewal notices to Georgia homeowners. In Georgia, though, the carrier appears to have misunderstood the state...

Posted: Jul 24, 2023

Massachusetts High Court Revives Contractor Liability Claim Over ‘Half Inch’ Defect

Whether a half-inch granite protrusion on a crosswalk under repair is sufficient to support a negligent claim is a matter for a jury to decide, not a court granting summary judgment for a contractor doing work for a municipality. Furthermore, …

Posted: Jul 24, 2023

Donnelly to Lead Marsh Specialty’s Global Business; Sartain Named President Marsh US

Marsh said today that Pat Donnelly has been appointed as president, Marsh Specialty and Global Placement, effective immediately. Donnelly was formerly president of Marsh’s US business since the start of 2022. Prior to that, he was head of Marsh...

Posted: Jul 24, 2023

Google Owes $338.7 Million in Chromecast Patent Case, Jury Says

Alphabet’s Google violated a software developer’s patent rights with its remote-streaming technology and must pay $338.7 million in damages, a federal jury in Waco, Texas decided on Friday. The jury found that Google’s Chromecast an...

Posted: Jul 24, 2023

AGCS and Local Allianz P/C Entities Now Trading as ‘Allianz Commercial’

Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) together with the commercial insurance businesses of local Allianz Property & Casualty (P&C) entities have begun to trade as “Allianz Commercial” in one go-to-market business that of...

Posted: Jul 24, 2023

Some Pro Sports Leagues Have Specific Anti-Hazing Policies, Others Do Not

The biggest professional sports leagues in the United States have dealt with a smattering of hazing issues over the past decade, ranging from NFL offensive lineman Richie Incognito`s bad behavior to Major League Baseball cracking down on rookies dres...

Posted: Jul 24, 2023

Americans Are Moving Toward Climate Danger in Search of Cheaper Homes

A midsummer quiz: Let’s say you read about an area experiencing blistering heat for weeks on end. Heat so hot that in the day, you can’t go outside, and at nighttime it’s still above 90F. Would you cross that off …

Posted: Jul 24, 2023

New Michigan Law Allows Alcohol to Be Sold at Public University Sports Venues

A new state law allows alcoholic drinks to be sold at college sporting events in Michigan. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation last week allowing liquor licenses to be issued to sporting venues at public universities, including Michigan State in...

Posted: Jul 24, 2023

Low Levels of Radioactive Tritium from Minnesota Energy Company may Be Near Mississippi River

Groundwater containing low levels of radioactive material may have reached the edge of the Mississippi River, the energy company responsible for the leak from its nuclear power plant in Monticello, Minnesota, announced on. Tritium, a radioactive isot...

Posted: Jul 24, 2023

Low Levels of Radioactive Tritium From Minnesota Energy Company May Be Near Mississippi River

Groundwater containing low levels of radioactive material may have reached the edge of the Mississippi River, the energy company responsible for the leak from its nuclear power plant in Monticello, Minnesota, announced on. Tritium, a radioactive isot...

Posted: Jul 24, 2023

Acrisure Brand Roll out Reaches Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma

Acrisure said that local partners in its South Region will be rebranded as Acrisure in a continuation of the firm’s global brand roll out. As part of the roll out, Acrisure businesses in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma will now …

Posted: Jul 24, 2023

Train Derailment in Northern Montana Spills Freight

A train derailment in northern Montana spilled freight and left 25 cars tangled up along a major east-west railroad corridor but caused no injuries. The accident comes less than a month after a railroad bridge collapse in southern Montana sent &#8230...

Posted: Jul 24, 2023

Residents of Memphis Suburb Told to Avoid Tap Water After Fuel Spill

Residents of a Tennessee city must keep avoiding using their tap water after diesel fuel being used to power a generator at a treatment plant leaked into a reservoir, officials said Friday. Officials in the Memphis suburb of Germantown first …

Posted: Jul 24, 2023

People Moves: Arch Promotes Blois to Underwriting Mgr, Hires 3 PI U/Ws; Canopius Names CFC’s Gayle a...

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Arch Insurance, Canopius, and Willis Towers Watson (WTW). A summary of these new hires follows here. Arch Promotes Blois to U/W Manager, Hires 3 PI Underwriters Arch Insurance’s...

Posted: Jul 24, 2023