Insurance Journal
A bill that would cap some of the damages West Virginia workers and their families can receive if their employer deliberately puts them in harm’s way on the job is headed to the desk of Gov. Jim Justice. The Republican …
Posted: Mar 13, 2023
Aon plc, a leading global professional services firm, updated its Impact Forecasting Europe Windstorm and Severe Convective Storm (SCS) catastrophe models to incorporate emissions scenarios that inform current and future projections of climate and st...
Posted: Mar 13, 2023
Mosaic Insurance has opened an office in Singapore and hired two specialty underwriters to build its transactional liability business across the Asia-Pacific region. Benn Wilson will serve as regional CEO, and head of Asia for Mosaic’s transact...
Posted: Mar 13, 2023
Coalition, the San Francisco-based cyber managing general agent and cyber-security firm, announced it will enter the excess cyber insurance market in the United Kingdom to help protect businesses with enhanced coverage. By adding additional capacity...
Posted: Mar 13, 2023
Swiss financial regulator FINMA on Monday said it was monitoring the situation surrounding failed Silicon Valley Bank and looking for signs of contagion from the bank’s collapse. “FINMA takes note of the media reports on Silicon Valley Ba...
Posted: Mar 13, 2023
Swiss financial regulator FINMA on Monday said it was closely monitoring the banks and insurers it oversees after the U.S. moved to guarantee the deposits of two failing lenders in an effort to stem contagion. Credit Suisse’s shares fell to ...
Posted: Mar 13, 2023
Connecticut is suing the operator of the state’s 23 highway rest stops, alleging the company is refusing to pay more than $2.7 million in back wages owed to food service workers for Subway, Dunkin’ and other restaurant chains, state Attor...
Posted: Mar 13, 2023
Silicon Valley Bank customers will have access to their deposits starting on Monday, U.S. officials said on Sunday, as the federal government announced actions to shore up deposits and stem any broader financial fallout from the sudden collapse of th...
Posted: Mar 13, 2023
Financial institutions managing $136 trillion in assets will this week call on companies to share more data on their environmental impact, the chair of disclosure platform CDP told Reuters. In a letter to the boards of over 15,000 companies, 746 R...
Posted: Mar 13, 2023
Financial institutions managing $136 trillion in assets will this week call on companies to share more data on their environmental impact, the chair of disclosure platform CDP told Reuters. In a letter to the boards of over 15,000 companies, 746 R...
Posted: Mar 13, 2023
FWD Group Holdings Ltd., the pan-Asian insurance company owned by Hong Kong billionaire Richard Li, is planning to file for a third time for an initial public offering in the financial hub, according to people familiar with the matter. The …
Posted: Mar 13, 2023
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Thursday called for regulation of artificial intelligence technology to ensure it does not hurt growth or become a national security risk, a departure from the business lobbying group’s typical anti-regulatory st...
Posted: Mar 13, 2023
The financial institution best known for its relationships with high-flying world technology startups and venture capital, Silicon Valley Bank, experienced one of the oldest problems in banking – a bank run – which led to its failure on F...
Posted: Mar 13, 2023
A U.S. federal judge on Friday rejected a bid by Alphabet Inc’s Google to move a Justice Department lawsuit against it over dominance in advertising technology from Virginia to New York. “I am going to rule against you,” Judge Leoni...
Posted: Mar 13, 2023
A recent report from the Government Accountability Office recommended the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration rethink crash test dummies in order to collect better data on more types of people. The investigative arm of Congress that examin...
Posted: Mar 13, 2023
Allegations that some insurance carriers have altered field adjusters’ damage estimates has gained more national attention after The Washington Post reported on and documented examples of the practices. Leadership with Florida-based Heritage In...
Posted: Mar 13, 2023
Allegations that some insurance carriers have altered field adjusters’ damage estimates has gained more national attention after The Washington Post reported on and documented examples of the practices. Leadership with Florida-based Heritage In...
Posted: Mar 13, 2023
Wesley Owens, 54, of Atlanta, Georgia, and Beau Wilson, 38, also of Atlanta, pleaded no contest to multiple felony counts of insurance fraud and conspiracy in Los Angeles Superior Court over charges filed after a California Department of Insurance in...
Posted: Mar 13, 2023
Wesley Owens, 54, of Atlanta, Georgia, and Beau Wilson, 38, also of Atlanta, pleaded no contest to multiple felony counts of insurance fraud and conspiracy in Los Angeles Superior Court over charges filed after a California Department of Insurance in...
Posted: Mar 13, 2023
Frozen human embryos can legally be considered property, or “chattel,” a Virginia judge has ruled, basing his decision in part on a 19th century law governing the treatment of slaves. The preliminary opinion by Fairfax County Circuit Cour...
Posted: Mar 13, 2023
A key panel of Maryland lawmakers on Friday advanced a measure that would end the state’s statute of limitations for when civil lawsuits can be filed against public and private institutions related to child sexual abuse. The Maryland Senate Jud...
Posted: Mar 13, 2023
Venbrook Group, LLC, based in Woodland Hills, California, promoted Brenda Sherman to executive vice president of business development and strategic alliances. A Venbrook executive since 2015, Sherman has more than 30 years of industry experience acro...
Posted: Mar 13, 2023
Several groups of associations, cities and counties are attempting to challenge a case in Montana they say has the potential to take away an important tool from firefighting efforts at a time when Western U.S. wildfires are worsening. The groups, ...
Posted: Mar 10, 2023
ALKEME announced the acquisition of the NAPA Insurance Center, an Austin, Texas- based insurance agency that provides health and P&C Insurance to NAPA’s independently owned Auto Part Stores and Auto Care Centers nationally. Founded over 30...
Posted: Mar 10, 2023
Valley Insurance Agency Alliance Hires Weis as Personal Lines Coach Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA) recently hired Brett Weis as personal lines coach. Weis will work with the VIAA’s development team and coach new and existing team membe...
Posted: Mar 10, 2023