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...
National - April 30, 2025
Some property/casualty insurers talk about experimenting with artificial intelligence to automate call center responses and back-office operations...
National - April 30, 2025
WTW has announced the North American launch of Radar Vision, an AI-driven performance monitoring tool custom-built for insurers...
National - April 30, 2025
Mosaic Promotes Duggan to Lead North American Claims [caption id="attachment_821813" align="alignleft" width="150"] Thomas Duggan[/caption] Mosaic, headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda, named environmental and casualty risk specialist and former district attorney Thomas Duggan as the company's claims head for North America...
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...
East - April 30, 2025
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) has been found to have violated Maryland's employment anti-discrimination law when it discriminated against an employee because of his sexual orientation...
East - April 29, 2025
The New Jersey Forest Fire Service reported continued progress in fighting the Jones River wildfire, with the fire being 75% contained by noon on Monday, April 28...
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 - 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...
West - April 30, 2025
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is returning to the municipal bond market with a $1 billion offering, roughly three months after shelving a sale in the immediate wake of historic wildfires that began burning in Southern California on Jan 7...
International - April 30, 2025
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at SiriusPoint and Howden. A summary of these new hires follows here...
International - April 30, 2025
Britain's Co-op Group said on Wednesday hackers had attempted to break into its systems, the second high-profile cyber attack on a major UK retailer in as many weeks, following an ongoing incident at Marks & Spencer...
International - 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...
International - April 30, 2025
As factories, stores and hotels across Spain and Portugal gradually returned to normal on Tuesday after a huge blackout the day before, business associations and companies began counting the cost...