Insurance Journal
A lawsuit by a former transit agency employee accuses San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher of sexual harassment and sexual assault. The suit comes days after Fletcher ended his state Senate campaign to seek treatment for post-traumatic stress...
Posted: Mar 31, 2023
Maine’s attorney general is suing manufacturers of so- called forever chemicals that have contaminated farms and wells, contending they knew about the toxicity decades ago but concealed the information from the public. Two lawsuits targeting Du...
Posted: Mar 31, 2023
The California Privacy Protection Agency finalized its first substantive rulemaking package to further implement the California Consumer Privacy Act, which was approved by the California Office of Administrative Law. The approved regulations, which a...
Posted: Mar 31, 2023
A Massachusetts man whose SUV crashed through the glass storefront of an Apple store, killing one man and injuring nearly two dozen other people, has been charged with murder, prosecutors said. Bradley Rein, 53, was indicted by a grand jury …
Posted: Mar 31, 2023
A Massachusetts man whose SUV crashed through the glass storefront of an Apple store, killing one man and injuring nearly two dozen other people, has been charged with murder, prosecutors said. Bradley Rein, 53, was indicted by a grand jury …
Posted: Mar 31, 2023
A letter to the world’s insurance companies from a climate activist group calls on the industry to immediately stop insuring companies and projects that promote the expansion of coal, oil and gas, and phase out all insurance services for fossil...
Posted: Mar 30, 2023
Valley Insurance Agency Alliance Promotes Rucker Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), a family of more than 160 independent insurance agencies in Missouri and Illinois, recently promoted Kaylee Rucker to communication coordinator. Rucker will han...
Posted: Mar 30, 2023
Twice in 2022, the owner of a Mandan, North Dakota excavation company sat behind the controls of an excavator, supervising employees below as they installed municipal water lines in trenches as deep as 10 feet without protection against deadly collap...
Posted: Mar 30, 2023
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – An Arkansas bathroom bill that went further than a 2016 North Carolina law that was repealed after widespread boycotts was revamped Tuesday following complaints from members of the transgender community and their famili...
Posted: Mar 30, 2023
Michigan, long known as a mainstay of organized labor, on Friday became the first state in decades to repeal a union-restricting law known as “right-to-work” that was passed over a decade ago by a Republican-controlled Legislature. The st...
Posted: Mar 30, 2023
Oil companies offered a combined $264 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday in a sale mandated by last year’s climate bill compromise. The auction was the first in the Gulf in more than a year …
Posted: Mar 30, 2023
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Everest Insurance and OONA Insurance (formerly Mapfre Insurance). A summary of these new hires follows here. Everest Insurance Names Chubb’s Kendrick Chairman of European Board...
Posted: Mar 30, 2023
An unlicensed labor broker for the construction industry has pleaded guilty to participating in a fraud scheme in order to evade more than $1 million in workers’ compensation premiums. According to Manhattan prosecutors, Salvador Almonte, Jr. u...
Posted: Mar 30, 2023
An unlicensed labor broker for the construction industry has pleaded guilty plea to participating in a fraud scheme in order to evade more than $1 million in workers’ compensation premiums. According to Manhattan prosecutors, Salvador Almonte,...
Posted: Mar 30, 2023
Key financial results for private U.S. property/casualty insurers significantly worsened in 2022 from a year earlier, according to preliminary results from global analytics provider Verisk and the American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APC...
Posted: Mar 30, 2023
The Lloyd’s marketplace announced it has invited 13 insurtechs to join the next cohort of its innovation accelerator, the Lloyd’s Lab, following a competitive pitch process where the firms presented innovative insurance solutions for the...
Posted: Mar 30, 2023
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and the California FAIR Plan Association agreed to more than double its existing commercial coverage limits to $20 million for businesses unable to find coverage in the normal insurance marketplace. Lara...
Posted: Mar 30, 2023
Apex Risk & Insurance Services launched in the San Diego, California area. CEO Peter Katkov, a seasoned insurance professional with more 15 years in the industry, founded Apex Risk & Insurance. Apex specializes in personal and commercial prop...
Posted: Mar 30, 2023
Tremor Technologies Inc., the Boston-based reinsurance pricing and placing platform, has launched a catastrophe bond issuance platform called Tremor Issuer™. Tremor Issuer is part of the suite of Tremor services that can be accessed online by investo...
Posted: Mar 30, 2023
Duck Creek Technologies on March 30 announced the completion of its acquisition by Vista Equity Partners in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $2.6 billion, or $19 per share. “We are excited to commence our partnership with Vista E...
Posted: Mar 30, 2023
Russia still relies on Western insurers to cover more than half of the tanker fleet that exports its oil, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, and the country’s energy officials are voicing concerns about the situation. The Group of Seven &...
Posted: Mar 30, 2023
An alarm blared and lights flashed as a heavily armed assailant stalked the hallways of The Covenant School. Surveillance footage of the shooting Monday at the private Christian school in Nashville showed many familiar security measures, including th...
Posted: Mar 30, 2023
The Delaware Senate gave final approval Tuesday to bills legalizing recreational marijuana use by adults in the state and authorizing the establishment of a state-licensed and regulated cannabis industry, setting up a potential battle with Democratic...
Posted: Mar 30, 2023
Crews were working Wednesday to remove three remaining barges that got loose on the Ohio River, including one carrying methanol. A total of 10 barges got loose early Tuesday on the river near Louisville, the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet &#...
Posted: Mar 30, 2023
The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday handed down three opinions that resolve two questions about insurance law. One decision will probably disappoint auto insurers; another will please carriers in the liquor liability line. In two separate d...
Posted: Mar 30, 2023