Insurance Journal
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Mississippi woman who says she was hit by a stray police bullet while lying in bed. Latasha Smith, 49, was in bed on Dec. 11 when an officer from the …
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
Destructive wildfires are now an almost routine part of summer in the American West, and electrical utilities have likewise become used to having their power lines and equipment blamed for igniting the blazes. But a jury verdict last month ordering &...
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
Ukraine is pushing for grain exports to continue from key ports following Russia’s withdrawal from the Black Sea grain deal. Insurers and shippers aren’t so sure. Russia’s termination of the pact this week means that it will no long...
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
Fortescue Metals Group Ltd. said it had been subject to a cyber attack that resulted in “the disclosure of a small portion of data from our networks.” The world’s fourth-largest iron ore exporter described the attack as “a low...
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
U.S. auto safety regulators are opening a special crash investigation into a fatal accident in California involving a 2018 Tesla Model 3 suspected of relying on advanced driver assistance systems, the government agency said on Tuesday. The National H...
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
It is too early to tell if Britain’s financial rules post-Brexit will diverge too far from European Union norms to consider giving it access to the bloc’s markets, a senior EU official said on Tuesday. Paulina Dejmek Hack, a director R...
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
ALKEME recently acquired a pair of Midwestern agencies. ALKEME announced the acquisition of Wiggins Farha Insurance Group,a full-service insurance agency operating out of Wichita, Kansas. Wiggans Farha Insurance Group is an independent insurance agen...
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
China represents an increasing threat to the US power grid, lawmakers were told Tuesday during a hearing in which they were warned a cyberattack from the nation could plunge military and other sensitive sites into darkness. “The Chinese activit...
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
Cosmetics maker Estee Lauder on Tuesday said a hacker had obtained some data from its systems, with the cyber incident causing, and expected to further cause, disruption to parts of the company’s business operations. The MAC Cosmetics owner was...
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
Johnson & Johnson’s must pay $18.8 million to a California man who said he developed cancer from exposure to its baby powder, a jury decided on Tuesday, a setback for the company as it seeks to settle thousands of similar …
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
There are a “number of ideas being floated” to help get Ukrainian and Russian grain and fertilizer to global markets after Moscow quit a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukraine grain, the United Nations said on Tuesday. …
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
A jury has awarded $485 million in damages in a civil case brought on behalf of an 8-year-old girl who was repeatedly sexually assaulted in a New Mexico foster care program. The verdict came late last week after Rio Arriba …
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
A federal investigation has recovered $950,000 in back wages and liquidated damages and $50,000 in punitive damages from a West Lebanon, New Hampshire home healthcare business — with a history of unlawful pay practices — that denied overtime wages to...
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
ALKEME acquired the Paul Kinan Insurance Group in Placentia, California. Paul Kinan Insurance group provides a variety of property/casualty insurance services to individuals, families and businesses. ALKEME is based in Ladera Ranch, California and ba...
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ogdensburg in northern New York said Monday that it was filing for bankruptcy protection as it faces more than 100 lawsuits alleging sexual abuse. The diocese, like others in the state, is dealing with lawsuits …
Posted: Jul 19, 2023
The Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) received 2,163 complaints and helped consumers recover $4,287,867 in additional payments from insurers between January 1 and June 30, 2023, the department said. Property & Casualty accounted for 1,589 o...
Posted: Jul 18, 2023
MADISON, Wis. (AP) __ Wisconsin regulators can`t legally impose environmental regulations on factory farms before they become operational, two farm advocacy groups allege in a lawsuit that could dramatically loosen protections against manure pollutio...
Posted: Jul 18, 2023
Galveston, Texas-based American National Insurance Company announced a comprehensive rebranding initiative to modernize its brand, its first significant rebranding update in 50 years. The company unveiled a new logo and visual identity that features...
Posted: Jul 18, 2023
The Salvation Army will pay $25,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to obtain relief for a former employee of the charitable organization’s Ann Arbor, Michigan thrift store who was discrimina...
Posted: Jul 18, 2023
Lion Elastomers, LLC, a manufacturing plant in Port Neches, Texas, agreed to pay $175,000 and provide other relief pursuant to a consent decree entered by a federal district court on July 7, resolving a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the...
Posted: Jul 18, 2023
A cargo insurance facility providing cover for Ukraine grain shipments via a safe sea corridor has been suspended after Russia quit the United Nations-backed agreement, broker Marsh said on Tuesday. Moscow has withdrawn from the year-old grain export...
Posted: Jul 18, 2023
A freight train derailment in southeast Pennsylvania early Monday spurred precautionary evacuations, but officials said no injuries were reported and there was no known hazard to the public. The 40-car CSX train, which was operating on tracks owned b...
Posted: Jul 18, 2023
West Virginia`s state health officer was selected Wednesday to represent one of the hardest-hit regions of the state for drug overdoses on the board of a private foundation that will be distributing the majority of the state`s more than $1 …
Posted: Jul 18, 2023
Two people died over the weekend when the dirt bike they were riding collided with an SUV near a shopping plaza in Massachusetts, authorities said. The victims of the crash in Wareham just before 11 p.m. Saturday were identified as …
Posted: Jul 18, 2023
An actor and model who had roles in the soap opera “Guiding Light” and movies including “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” says in a lawsuit that she was sexually harassed by the owner of a Rhode Island resort where she …
Posted: Jul 18, 2023