Insurance Journal
New York City officials called on the public to help with a crackdown on unsafe e-bike shops after a spate of deadly fires caused by lithium ion batteries, the latest of which killed four people in Manhattan’s Chinatown last Tuesday. …
Posted: Jun 27, 2023
The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries is proposing updated workplace safety rules for petroleum refineries designed to prevent catastrophic events like the 2010 explosion that killed seven workers at the former Tesoro refinery in...
Posted: Jun 27, 2023
The Nevada Division of Insurance says it has been made aware of an email phishing scam targeting licensed insurance producers and agents in Nevada. The division has reportedly received several calls from licensed professionals reporting they received...
Posted: Jun 26, 2023
Police in California are not immune from civil lawsuits for misconduct that happens while they investigate crimes, the state Supreme Court ruled, overruling a precedent made by lower courts that had helped protect law enforcement from litigation for...
Posted: Jun 26, 2023
A Port Allen, Louisiana pharmacy and its owner must pay $275,000 to resolve a federal civil lawsuit under the Controlled Substances Act, United States Attorney Ronald C. Gathe, Jr. announced. U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson has accepted and ente...
Posted: Jun 26, 2023
IICF presents 2023 Inclusion Champion Award and raises funds for communities across the US and UK LOS ANGELES – June 20, 2023 – The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF), a unique nonprofit organization dedicated to helping communities and...
Posted: Jun 26, 2023
IICF presents 2023 Inclusion Champion Award and raises funds for communities across the US and UK LOS ANGELES – June 20, 2023 – The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF), a unique nonprofit organization dedicated to helping communities and...
Posted: Jun 26, 2023
American workers are struggling. Employee stress has reached record highs. Symptoms and formal diagnoses of mental illnesses like anxiety, depression and PTSD are rising. Substance abuse disorders are up, too – as are suicide rates in some demographi...
Posted: Jun 26, 2023
SolarWinds said on Friday some of its former and current executives had been issued a Wells notice by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over a massive 2020 data breach tied to the software firm. A Wells notice does not …
Posted: Jun 26, 2023
The US Supreme Court refused to revive a lawsuit by music website Genius Media Group Inc. accusing Alphabet Inc.’s Google of stealing millions of song lyrics. The justices left in place a ruling that tossed out the suit, which accused …
Posted: Jun 26, 2023
Shares in Siemens Energy continued to fall on Monday following a record sell-off in shares last week that was triggered by major issues at the company’s wind turbine division Siemens Gamesa. Shares in Siemens Energy fell 5% to the bottom …...
Posted: Jun 26, 2023
The Supreme Court of Texas narrowly decided Friday that sovereign immunity, which largely shields government agencies from civil lawsuits, also protects the operator of the Texas electric grid. The 5-4 opinion will likely free the nonprofit corporati...
Posted: Jun 26, 2023
Federal safety inspectors responded to a Wisconsin employer’s report of an amputation found workers at a Green Bay, Wisconsin beef processing plant exposed to multiple hazards, including inadequate guards to protect employees from machines in o...
Posted: Jun 26, 2023
A tornado that ripped through a massive coal mining site in northeast Wyoming halted operations, but only eight people were injured and no deaths were reported, officials said. The tornado hit the North Antelope Rochelle Mine in Campbell County aroun...
Posted: Jun 26, 2023
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Firefighters who responded to February’s fiery train derailment in Ohio struggled to immediately identify the hazardous chemicals the train was hauling due to a lack of communication from the railroad, officials said Th...
Posted: Jun 26, 2023
Massive battery plants planned in Tennessee and Kentucky for Ford’s electric vehicles are on track to receive up to a $9.2 billion federal loan in what would be the biggest award under the U.S. Department of Energy’s loan program since &#...
Posted: Jun 26, 2023
Months after an EF-3 tornado tore through a Georgia county southwest of Atlanta officials said a federal agency has denied its request for additional help in the recovery. ”Obviously we’re extremely disappointed that the (disaster) declar...
Posted: Jun 26, 2023
The president of International General Insurance Holdings Ltd. (IGI), Waleed Jabsheh, will assume the role of chief executive officer. He succeeds Wasef Jabsheh, the founder, current chairman and CEO of IGI, who will become executive chairman, effect...
Posted: Jun 26, 2023
NFP Appoints Abuzaid to Lead Its Occupational Health & Safety Group Insurance brokerage NFP has appointed Hamid Abuzaid as the new leader of its occupational health and safety group (OHS). NFP is headquartered in New York, New York. Abuzaid joine...
Posted: Jun 26, 2023
A judge on Friday ordered Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission to temporarily halt the issuance of licenses to growers and distributers as two companies argue the state used a flawed and secretive process to selecting winners for the potentially lucra...
Posted: Jun 26, 2023
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has signed into law a bill that will allow cities to hire civilian traffic investigators to handle some traffic accidents, freeing up police officers for other duties. House Bill 140, which took effect Friday after R...
Posted: Jun 26, 2023
A firefighter must be shown to have worked 20 or more hours a week to be eligible for workers’ compensation benefits under state law, the Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled in reversing an appeals court and state workers’ compensation of...
Posted: Jun 26, 2023
Tokio Marine HCC International (TMHCCI) has restructured its IT and Operations teams as it moves to the next stage of its growth strategy. Since 2017, TMHCCI said it has grown significantly and to service and sustain this level of growth …
Posted: Jun 26, 2023
Canada’s explosive wildfire season has already pumped millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Some of that carbon is coming from vegetation burned at a carbon offset project, highlighting the fragility of a tool the world is rel...
Posted: Jun 26, 2023
Companies will face more pressure to disclose how climate change affects their business under a new set of G20-backed global rules aimed at helping regulators crack down on greenwashing. The norms published on Monday have been written by the Internat...
Posted: Jun 26, 2023