Insurance Journal
The Biden administration and major consumer technology players on Tuesday launched an effort to put a nationwide cybersecurity certification and labeling program in place to help consumers choose smart devices that are less vulnerable to hacking. Off...
Posted: Jul 20, 2023
Natural gas leaked from a defective fitting at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory where a powerful explosion leveled one building, heavily damaged another and killed seven people, federal safety investigators said Tuesday, while noting they have yet to...
Posted: Jul 20, 2023
The failure of the doubler-plated hull under the engine room likely caused the flooding and sinking of a fishing vessel near Gloucester, Massachusetts last year, according to an investigative report from the National Transportation Safety Board. The...
Posted: Jul 20, 2023
Talage Inc., headquartered in Reno, Nev., appointed Craig Fuher as its new CEO. Fuher is also a founder at Affective Business Intelligence Corp. Company co-founder Adam Kiefer will transition to the newly created founder and executive chairman role....
Posted: Jul 20, 2023
Talage Inc., headquartered in Reno, Nev., appointed Craig Fuher as its new CEO. Fuher is also a founder at Affective Business Intelligence Corp. Company co-founder Adam Kiefer will transition to the newly created founder and executive chairman role....
Posted: Jul 20, 2023
Fire crews built containment lines and patrolled for hot spots throughout the day on Wednesday to continue to keep a massive Southern California wildfire from growing. Containment on the Rabbit Fire grew to 55% with extreme heat and low humidity R...
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
An ongoing eruption of a remote volcano in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands produced an ash cloud so large this week that warnings were sent to pilots about potentially dangerous conditions. An ash cloud with an initial height of around 5.5 miles R...
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
Europe baked in intense heat, with temperatures reaching almost 46C (115F) on the Italian island of Sardinia on Wednesday, as wildfires continued to rage in Greece. Authorities warned lives were in danger after the latest blast of Saharan heat saw &#...
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
HOUSTON (AP) – Houston plans to spend millions of dollars to relocate residents from neighborhoods located near a rail yard polluted by a cancer-linked wood preservative that has been blamed for an increase in cancer cases, the city’s mayor ann...
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
E&S Casualty at Ascot Group U.S. Names Keller Senior Lead Underwriter Ron Keller has been named senior lead underwriter, E&S Casualty at Ascot Group U.S. Keller is based in the Chicago, Ill., office and is responsible for the central region....
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
Texas Mutual Insurance Company has awarded more than $4 million in grants to several Texas nonprofits, part of its commitment in community funding to nonprofit organizations. Texas Mutual has committed funding to nonprofit organizations in two catego...
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. At its fundamental level, compliance is about making sure the people you have selling products are authorized to sell them, and are doing it right away AND the right way. …
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
COOK, Minn. (AP) – No one was injured and no hazardous material spilled when nine Canadian National Railway cars derailed in northern Minnesota, officials there said. The derailment happened just before 8:30 p.m. Monday in a rural, unpopulated area a...
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
When a rainstorm hit Endicott, New York this past weekend, the organizers of the DICK’S Sporting Goods Open PGA TOUR Champions event at En-Joie Golf Course were shielded with a rain insurance policy provided by Vortex Weather Insurance. The DIC...
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
A former Northwestern football player filed the first lawsuit against Pat Fitzgerald and members of the school`s leadership, seeking damages stemming from a hazing scandal that cost the former football coach his job. The player, identified in the law...
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
Insurance broker World Insurance Associates acquired the business of Young Insurance Agency Group, Inc. of Portsmouth, Virginia on July 1, 2023. Young Insurance, founded in 1973, offers business, personal and life and health insurance, as well as sec...
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
A Georgia woman who was employed by State Farm Automobile Insurance Co. for 20 years is suing the insurer alleging she was discriminated and retaliated against because of her bladder disability. The employee, Elisa Brown, was diagnosed with overactiv...
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
A Georgia woman who was employed by State Farm Automobile Insurance Co. for 20 years is suing the insurer alleging she was discriminated and retaliated against because of her bladder disability. The employee, Elisa Brown, was diagnosed with overactiv...
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
District of Columbia Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb has filed a lawsuit against more than 25 chemical companies for manufacturing, marketing, distributing, and selling products containing dangerous PFAS chemicals, which the suit claims now pollute...
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
Tokio Marine HCC today announced it has agree to acquire Gulf Guaranty Employee Benefit Services, Inc., a Jackson, Mississippi-based third-party administrator and managing general underwriter that designs, underwrites and administers group gap medica...
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
Federal workplace safety inspectors at two Tampa-area Dollar General stores said they found the company again exposing employees to fire hazards and other unsafe conditions, continuing the long history of disregard for worker safety by one of the nat...
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
While technology is continuing to evolve and provide many benefits to insurers and their customers, one concern is that growing connectivity and dependence on technology means a single cyber event could simultaneously impact a large number of busines...
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
Twitter Inc. on Tuesday was hit with the second lawsuit this month to claim that it owes at least $500 million in severance pay to ex-workers, the latest in a series of cases arising from Elon Musk’s acquisition of the …
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
Bain Capital has raised $1.15 billion for its first fund dedicated to investing in the insurance industry, as the private equity firm aims to create and invest in companies in the sector, a senior executive told Reuters. The fund exceeded …
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
Evertas, the Chicago-based dedicated crypto insurance company, announced the acquisition of Bitsure, the world’s first insurer dedicated to coverage for crypto mining operations. Launched in 2021, Cape Town, South Africa-based Bitsure bound its...
Posted: Jul 19, 2023