Insurance Journal
Spain reported 10 new cases of wild boar deaths from African swine fever, expanding an outbreak that has put the major pork exporter into high alert. The dead animals, which bring the total count to 26 since the outbreak emerged …
Posted: Dec 17, 2025
The hacking group “ShinyHunters” said on Tuesday it has stolen data belonging to premium customers of the leading sex website Pornhub and is threatening to publish it. Although Reuters could not immediately establish the scope, scale, or...
Posted: Dec 17, 2025
Korean automakers Hyundai and Kia agreed to retrofit 7 million U.S. vehicles to address theft concerns and install prevention equipment on all new vehicles to resolve an investigation by a bipartisan coalition of 35 attorneys general. The state attor...
Posted: Dec 17, 2025
Massachusetts public health officials have reported the first confirmed case of silicosis in the stone countertop fabrication industry in the state. The first confirmed case was recently diagnosed in a Hispanic man in his 40s who, for the past 14 ...
Posted: Dec 17, 2025
Washington Insurance Commissioner Patty Kuderer issued an emergency order that includes asking insurers in the state to provide grace periods for premium payments and a cancelation moratorium. The order was drafted to provide relief to Washington pol...
Posted: Dec 17, 2025
Washington Insurance Commissioner Patty Kuderer issued an emergency order that includes asking insurers in the state to provide grace periods for premium payments and a cancelation moratorium. The order was drafted to provide relief to Washington pol...
Posted: Dec 17, 2025
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Xcel Energy Inc., accusing the utility company of “blatant negligence” over its role in the Smokehouse Creek wildfire that killed three people and caused more than $1 billion in damage last year. ...
Posted: Dec 17, 2025
New York is the eighth state found to routinely issue commercial driver’s licenses to immigrants that are valid long after they are no longer legally authorized to be in the country, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Friday, and he...
Posted: Dec 17, 2025
Confie announced the acquisition of TGS Insurance Agency, Inc., a Houston, Texas-based standard personal lines insurance agency. The acquisition advances Confie’s strategy to scale InsureOne into a leading national platform serving standard per...
Posted: Dec 16, 2025
Xcel Energy is preparing customers in the Rocky Mountain region for preemptive blackouts to help reduce the risk of wildfires as strong, dry winds threaten to knock down power lines. The utility said it would likely shut off power starting …
Posted: Dec 16, 2025
World Insurance Associates LLC acquired the business of SilverLeaf Insurance Group in Scottsdale, Arizona. SilverLeaf was established in 2009. It offers business, health, life and personal insurance lines to clients in multiple states across the nati...
Posted: Dec 16, 2025
Despite the backlash against diversity, equity and inclusion policies in the US, employee groups built around shared identities or interests have largely held up. The number of Fortune 50 companies that publicly disclose so-called employee resource g...
Posted: Dec 16, 2025
Mortgagees required to purchase flood insurance can utilize private flood policies, under federal rules that took effect in 2019. But if they go that route, the property owners risk losing lower, grandfathered premiums if they ever return to the Nati...
Posted: Dec 16, 2025
AIG Appoints Clifford From Everest as CEO, International Commercial Insurance American International Group (AIG) announced that Adam Clifford has been appointed chief executive officer, International Commercial Insurance, effective January 5, 2026. I...
Posted: Dec 16, 2025
Italy’s Leonardo has denied liability for the 2018 helicopter crash which killed Thai businessman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, saying in its defense to a lawsuit that its AW169 model is safe. The family of Srivaddhanaprabha, who founded duty-free...
Posted: Dec 16, 2025
A long-running family feud for control of the $8 billion-a-year Market Basket grocery chain in New England is about to take center stage at a trial to determine whether the former chief executive officer was improperly ousted by his three …
Posted: Dec 16, 2025
Insured losses from natural catastrophes will surpass US$100 billion mark in 2025 for the sixth consecutive year – driven mainly by January’s record Los Angeles wildfires as well as severe convective storms (SCS) in the US, according to a repor...
Posted: Dec 16, 2025
President Donald Trump sued the BBC for up to $10 billion in damages over edited clips of a speech that made it appear he directed supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol, opening an international front in his fight against media …
Posted: Dec 16, 2025
President Donald Trump sued the BBC for up to $10 billion in damages over edited clips of a speech that made it appear he directed supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol, opening an international front in his fight against media …
Posted: Dec 16, 2025
President Donald Trump sued the BBC for at least $10 billion in damages over edited clips of a speech that made it appear he directed supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol, opening an international front in his fight against media …
Posted: Dec 16, 2025
Venezuela’s state oil company is still struggling to restore key administrative systems after what it called a cyberattack that hit over the weekend. Petroleos de Venezuela SA’s network, which manages export and import data at the country...
Posted: Dec 16, 2025
As an independent agent, you know the truth: acquiring new clients is often much more expensive than keeping the ones you already have. The old saying, “new business is king,” no longer entirely rings true. Today, retention is the new ...
Posted: Dec 16, 2025
The non-bank financial sector’s share of global assets grew to 51%, or $256.8 trillion, last year and expanded at double the rate of the traditional banking industry, the Financial Stability Board said on Tuesday. Non-bank financial intermediar...
Posted: Dec 16, 2025
Bjak Sdn, Malaysia’s largest online insurance aggregator, is mulling an initial public offering within the next two years as it seeks to enter Europe. Bjak is eyeing new markets in Spain and Germany in 2026 following its recent expansion in ...
Posted: Dec 16, 2025
As McKinsey & Co. partners gathered in the consulting giant’s birthplace in late October, Bob Sternfels delivered a rallying cry. “We will kick some ass as we start our second century,” the firm’s top executive told the th...
Posted: Dec 16, 2025