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Firefighters across Europe are calling for more resources as climate change increases the threat of wildfires across the region. While the European Union announced a doubling of its aerial firefighting fleet for this season to 24 airplanes and four h...
Posted: Jun 23, 2023
Marsh McLennan, the professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people, today announced that it will work with the Ukrainian government to help it unlock access to the global insurance market. As part of the support, it …
Posted: Jun 23, 2023
Russia-aligned hackers could seek to disrupt Canada’s powerful oil and natural gas sector, especially since Ottawa is a strong backer of Ukraine, a Canadian spy agency said on Wednesday. The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) signals i...
Posted: Jun 23, 2023
Business interruption/supply chain disruption ranks as the top risk facing the construction and engineering sector, which has been hit by soaring construction costs, supply chain disruptions and labor shortages, according to a report published by All...
Posted: Jun 23, 2023
The Norfolk Southern Corp. train was on fire when it passed Jessica Conard’s backyard in East Palestine, Ohio. Conard was lying in bed, blinds closed, unaware of the catastrophe barreling into her hometown. “My first realization that some...
Posted: Jun 23, 2023
TULSA, Okla. (AP) – Thousands of residents in Oklahoma and Louisiana remained without electricity Wednesday as work crews continued to repair power lines damaged by weekend storms. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, less than 92,000 customers remained without...
Posted: Jun 23, 2023
Newswise — A new report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions analyzing 2021 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data reveals another record year for firearm fatalities. The 48,830 lives lost to firearms in 2021—the second y...
Posted: Jun 23, 2023
A criminal hacking gang has added more names to its lists of alleged victims from a recent campaign that exploited a vulnerability in a popular file-transfer product. The group, known as Clop, threatened to post internal data from professional servic...
Posted: Jun 23, 2023
Aspen Appoints Tartaglia SVP, COO, Insurance Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited has appointed Robert Tartaglia to the newly created position of SVP, chief operations officer, insurance, starting July 3. Tartaglia will be based in Aspen’s Jersey C...
Posted: Jun 23, 2023
Seventeen former Major League Baseball scouts who say they were discriminated against because of their age sued the league, its teams and Commissioner Rob Manfred on Wednesday. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Denver. The former scouts...
Posted: Jun 23, 2023
World Insurance Associates announced that it acquired the business of The Mogil Organization LLC of New York, New York. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Since 1957, Mogil has offered corporate and personal insurance to businesses and fami...
Posted: Jun 23, 2023
A judge in Massachusetts has denied class certifications for claimants seeking payment from two insurers for the lost resale value of their motor vehicles that were damaged in accidents and then repaired. Suffolk County Superior Court Justice Kenneth...
Posted: Jun 23, 2023
A judge in Massachusetts has denied class certifications for claimants seeking payments from two insurers for the lost resale value of their motor vehicles that were damaged in accidents and then repaired. Suffolk County Superior Court Justice Kennet...
Posted: Jun 23, 2023
A federal appeals court has temporarily agreed to keep part of New Jersey’s handgun carry law in effect as court proceedings play out. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday granted the state attorney general’s request to keep part...
Posted: Jun 23, 2023
Hospitals and other health care providers in New York would be banned from reporting medical debt to credit agencies under a bill passed this week by the state’s legislature – a measure intended to limit the damage that illness and …...
Posted: Jun 23, 2023
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has opened a Senate investigation into Amazon’s warehouse safety practices, the latest in a series of probes he’s initiated against big corporations in his role as chairman of a committee that oversees health a...
Posted: Jun 23, 2023
An Oregon county on Thursday sued Exxon XOM.N, Chevron CVX.N, other major oil and coal companies, and industry groups, seeking over $50 billion to counter the harms caused by extreme weather fueled by climate change. Multnomah County said in the R...
Posted: Jun 22, 2023
Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler adopted a rule requiring insurers to explain premium increases to their policyholders “in language they can understand.” “If your insurance company is going to increase your premium, y...
Posted: Jun 22, 2023
A 38-year-old Houston, Texas man is in custody on charges of maliciously using explosive materials resulting in physical injury and conspiracy to do so. Authorities arrested Jason Vernon Rogers on June 13. Truong Quoc Duong, 52, remains in custody on...
Posted: Jun 22, 2023
Insurance Quantified, a commercial P&C underwriting technology provider, announced it has acquired Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Groundspeed Analytics, an ingestion and data solutions provider for the commercial P&C industry. The combination stre...
Posted: Jun 22, 2023
Insurance Quantified, a commercial P&C underwriting technology provider, announced it has acquired Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Groundspeed Analytics, an ingestion and data solutions provider for the commercial P&C industry. The combination stre...
Posted: Jun 22, 2023
The operator of a specialty frozen pizza manufacturing plant in Illinois could have prevented the death of a 29-year-old sanitation worker by following proper machine safety procedures, a federal investigation has found. Inspectors with the U.S. Depa...
Posted: Jun 22, 2023
Legislation aimed at protecting New York warehouse workers from “unreasonably demanding work quotas” is now in effect. New York Governor Kathy Hochul said the Warehouse Worker Protection Act includes new requirements for distribution cent...
Posted: Jun 22, 2023
This post is part of a series sponsored by InsurBanc. Born between 1980 and 1994, millennials are now ages 29 to 43, making them prime candidates for agency ownership. And their younger peers, Gen Z (born 1995–2010), aren’t far behind. …
Posted: Jun 22, 2023
LANSING, Mich. (AP) – Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has asked President Joe Biden to declare a major disaster declaration for five Upper Peninsula counties impacted earlier this year by flooding due to record spring snowmelt. A presidential de...
Posted: Jun 22, 2023