Insurance Journal
NFP acquired Presidio Financial Services Corp. in Westlake Village, California. Presidio is an independent insurance brokerage that provides products tailored for physicians, doctors, healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals. Gisela Plazas,...
Posted: Jun 28, 2023
Using chainsaws, heavy machinery and controlled burns, the Biden administration is trying to turn the tide on worsening wildfires in the U.S. West through a multi-billion dollar cleanup of forests choked with dead trees and undergrowth. Yet one year...
Posted: Jun 28, 2023
The Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) has appointed Charlotte Hedemark as the next president of FERMA. Her election was announced at the first meeting of the new FERMA Board following the Annual General Assembly in Brussels...
Posted: Jun 28, 2023
The Walt Disney Co. board did not act negligently when it criticized a sexual identity bill signed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Delaware judge ruled on Tuesday, in a case the judge said was improperly directed by a conservative …
Posted: Jun 28, 2023
The Walt Disney Co. board did not act negligently when it criticized a sexual identity bill signed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Delaware judge ruled on Tuesday, in a case the judge said was improperly directed by a conservative …
Posted: Jun 28, 2023
Russia will struggle to meet its strategic goal of more than quadrupling Arctic sea shipments by the end of the decade as the nation cannot increase and upgrade its small, aging ice fleet fast enough, according to the Northern Sea …
Posted: Jun 28, 2023
A lawsuit set for trial in July against the world’s largest provider of drilling services will offer rare public testimony about the plight of women working in America’s oil fields. Jessica Cheatham, who worked as an engineer for SLB, pre...
Posted: Jun 28, 2023
Climate change is the cause of a key emerging risk identified by Swiss Re’s SONAR report, which is leading to the opening of previously frozen waterways in the Arctic and the creation of new shipping and trade routes. The economic …
Posted: Jun 28, 2023
California ranked first in strengthening policies to enable widespread use of electric cars, trucks, and buses, according to a national scorecard out on Wednesday that gives most states poor grades. The 2023 State Transportation Electrification Score...
Posted: Jun 28, 2023
A standard to assess companies’ claims about progress towards internal climate targets and their use of carbon offset credits was launched on Wednesday by a global initiative seeking to bring transparency and confidence to an unregulated market...
Posted: Jun 28, 2023
Five activist groups have sued French oil major TotalEnergies for a second time over its projects in Uganda and Tanzania in a Paris civil court, they said on Tuesday, after an earlier fast-track attempt was dismissed in February. The French …
Posted: Jun 28, 2023
Investors in the UK are starting to worry that the anti-ESG movement may spread from the US and get a foothold on the other side of the Atlantic. The UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF), whose members oversee more …
Posted: Jun 28, 2023
A trio of property/casualty carrier executives voluntarily offered their views on a growing insurance availability crisis in a state like California at an industry conference last week, pointing to regulatory disconnects and political issues as drive...
Posted: Jun 28, 2023
This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. At the height of the pandemic, heightened fears and a greater awareness of mortality drove consumers away from annuities and increased demand for life insurance products. Now, as the world …
Posted: Jun 28, 2023
Two Georgia laws take effect Saturday, July 1, that affect insurance for ride-share operators and, potentially, workers’ compensation claims from hospital workers. House Bill 529 lowers the minimum amount of uninsured and underinsured motorists...
Posted: Jun 28, 2023
The Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia this month installed Woodstock agent Wendi Washowich as president. Washowich is a client executive at Hamby and Aloisio Risk Management and Insurance in Atlanta and has been active in the IIAG for years, th...
Posted: Jun 28, 2023
The Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia this month installed Woodstock agent Wendi Washowich as president. Washowich is a client executive at Hamby and Aloisio Risk Management and Insurance in Atlanta and has been active in the IIAG for years, th...
Posted: Jun 28, 2023
Travelers must pay a $2 million claim by the owner of a 92-foot-long yacht that was sunk by Hurricane Irma because Florida law does not allow insurers to deny claims based on inconsequential technicalities. A panel of the U.S. 11th …
Posted: Jun 28, 2023
After a series of fires involving faulty e-bike batteries including a recent blaze that claimed four lives, New York City officials announced Sunday that they are receiving a $25 million emergency grant from the federal government to fund scores of &...
Posted: Jun 28, 2023
Massachusetts car dealerships that provide customers with a courtesy vehicle to use while their car is being repaired are protected by federal law from liability should the courtesy car be in an accident, despite a state law that presumes the …
Posted: Jun 28, 2023
Individuals from two construction companies in California’s Bay Area were arraigned on charges of conspiring to misclassify workers to avoid paying workers’ compensation insurance, payroll taxes and insurance premiums. The first complaint...
Posted: Jun 28, 2023
AM Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating to A-(Excellent) from A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) to “a-” (Excellent) from “a” (Excellent) of New York Schools Insurance Reciprocal...
Posted: Jun 28, 2023
Siemens Energy and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) said on Tuesday they were among victims of the MOVEit hack that has affected scores of corporations, governments and other institutions in recent weeks. The hackers behind the wide-r...
Posted: Jun 27, 2023
BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas (AP) – A Florida man and his 14-year-old stepson died after hiking in extreme heat at Big Bend National Park in West Texas, according to officials. The 31-year-old man had been hiking the Marufo Vega …
Posted: Jun 27, 2023
SHOALS, Ind. (AP) – A tornado struck an Indiana home, killing a man and injuring his wife while two people died in Arkansas after a tree fell onto a house there as severe weather rumbled through several states. The tornado …
Posted: Jun 27, 2023