National - May 1, 2025
Hackers linked to Russia's government launched a cyberattack last spring against municipal water plants in rural Texas...
National - May 1, 2025
There's a course-correction underway among financial firms that went all out on ESG hiring just a few years back, according to recruiters advising banks and money managers...
National - May 1, 2025
Allstate Corp. first quarter 2025 net income applicable to common shareholders fell more than 52% to $566 million primarily due to a record $3...
National - April 30, 2025
Global insured losses from natural catastrophes hit US$137 billion in 2024, following the 5%-7% annual growth rate that has been the norm in recent years, according to Swiss Re analysis...
East - May 1, 2025
Members of New Jersey's Supreme Court sounded skeptical at times Monday about the effort of a Catholic diocese to stop the state from empaneling a grand jury to investigate clergy sexual abuse allegations...
East - May 1, 2025
Ratings agency AM Best has revised the outlook to negative from stable for the members of the NJM Insurance Group (NJM) for the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A+ (Superior) and the Long-Term ICRs of "aa" (Superior)...
East - April 30, 2025
[caption id="attachment_822008" align="alignleft" width="150"] Patti Dorn[/caption] Maryland Insurance Commissioner Marie Grant appointed Patricia Dorn as associate commissioner for consumer education and advocacy at the Maryland Insurance Administration...
East - April 30, 2025
Three Rhode Island men have been charged in federal court in Providence for their alleged roles in a conspiracy to steal and sell hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of catalytic converters, announced Acting U...
Midwest - April 30, 2025
AM Best has revised the outlooks to negative from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of B+ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of "bbb-" (Good) of Missouri Valley Mutual Insurance Company (MVMIC) based in Burke, South Dakota...
Midwest - April 30, 2025
A car smashed through a building Monday afternoon, killing four young people and injuring several others during an after-school program in a small city outside of Springfield, Illinois, police said...
Midwest - April 29, 2025
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act with Phoenix Global, a company in Burns Harbor, Indiana, that processes slag from a steel mill...
Midwest - April 29, 2025
A new first-of-its-kind law enacted in North Dakota could shield agrochemical manufacturer Bayer from lawsuits claiming it failed to warn customers that its popular weedkiller Roundup could cause cancer...
Southeast - April 30, 2025
Aspen Specialty Insurance Co. has reached a settlement with the owners of a Nashville condominium building that was badly damaged in the Christmas Day bombing in 2020...
Southeast - April 30, 2025
Six weeks after Tampa-based Heritage Property & Casualty Insurance Co. filed a libel suit against a whistleblower claims adjuster, the adjuster's lawyer has pushed back, arguing that the suit is an attempt to silence those who question insurers' damage estimates...
Southeast - April 29, 2025
The driver of a boat that appeared to leave the scene after a fatal crash in Clearwater, Florida, was not intoxicated but could still face multiple charges in the tragedy, according to local news media and the Associated Press...
Southeast - April 29, 2025
Before dawn on Oct. 18, 2017, FBI agents broke down the front door of Trina Martin's Atlanta home, stormed into her bedroom and pointed guns at her and her then-boyfriend as her 7-year-old son screamed for his mom from another room...
Southcentral - April 30, 2025
The Oklahoma Insurance Department is preparing for a second pilot launch of the Strengthen Oklahoma Homes Program, which provides up to $10,000 to residents to upgrade their homes to the IBHS Fortified standard...
Southcentral - April 30, 2025
Three workers were killed and two were injured when a section of scaffolding collapsed early Tuesday at a liquefied natural gas plant that Sempra is building in Texas...
Southcentral - April 29, 2025
Margo Denke set out to rally the town when she learned that a Christian youth camp planned to build a wastewater treatment plant and discharge its effluent into the pristine Hill Country creek that ran through her small ranch...
Southcentral - April 29, 2025
A widely followed measure of Texas manufacturing activity weakened significantly as executives used words like "chaos" and "insanity" to describe the turmoil spurred by President Donald Trump's tariffs, according to a report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas...
West - May 1, 2025
The Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California submitted a September 1, 2025 pure premium rate filing, proposing advisory pure premium rates on average 11...
West - April 30, 2025
Los Angeles County officials this week approved a $4 billion payout to settle nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse in juvenile facilities since 1959...
West - April 30, 2025
A California Assembly committee advanced a bill designed to deal with the state's wildfire and insurance crises...
West - April 30, 2025
Edison International beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter profit on Tuesday, as the utility benefited from lower operating and interest expenses and higher rates for its services...
International - May 1, 2025
Over the last decade, scientists have rapidly developed the field of climate attribution research, teasing out the role played by global warming in individual natural disasters...
International - May 1, 2025
Dustin Childs can still describe the best demonstration of a winning hack at an international tournament he's ever seen...
International - May 1, 2025
The regulatory landscape in the Asia-Pacific region is rapidly evolving, influencing insurers' risk management and capital adequacy...
International - May 1, 2025
There's a course-correction underway among financial firms that went all out on ESG hiring just a few years back, according to recruiters advising banks and money managers...