National - January 2, 2025
[caption id="attachment_805971" align="alignleft" width="150"] Frank Lamantia[/caption] Hiscox hired Frank Lamantia as chief technology officer, effective January 21...
National - January 2, 2025
Setting aside the populist flavor of his campaign rhetoric, Donald J. Trump's previous service as the nation's 45th president presents a remarkable opportunity to make educated guesses about the impact of his expected policies on the property/casualty insurance industry as the 47th President...
National - December 31, 2024
Nearly all of Puerto Rico was without power Tuesday after a widespread failure in the fragile electricity grid triggered an island-wide blackout...
National - December 31, 2024
A new investment fund that plans to oppose corporate DEI hiring goals is taking aim at Nike Inc., Kraft Heinz Co...
East - January 2, 2025
A federal judge is signaling that Rudy Giuliani's contempt hearing on Friday might not end so well for the former New York City mayor and onetime personal lawyer for President-elect Donald Trump as two Georgia election poll workers try to collect a $148 million defamation award they won against him...
East - January 2, 2025
The Massachusetts Legislature approved a bill Monday aimed at closing loopholes in the state's health care market regulatory process exposed by the collapse of Steward Health Care...
East - January 1, 2025
An employee who was injured when rescuing chocolate candies from the heat in his employer-owned delivery truck is not due workers' compensation benefits...
East - December 31, 2024
As Rhode Island state officials feared would happen, hackers responsible for a ransomware attack on a popular state-administered benefits portal have posted some of the stolen information to the dark web...
Midwest - December 31, 2024
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri entered an order on Dec. 17 requiring Ameren Missouri to spend $61 million on projects intended to mitigate violations of the federal Clean Air Act (CAA), including 14 years of unpermitted excess emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2)...
Midwest - December 31, 2024
Federal inspectors have again cited a Zion, Illinois contractor with an extensive history of endangering workers by exposing them to fall hazards...
Midwest - December 30, 2024
The Iowa Insurance Division last month entered into a consent order with a contractor who had made claims they were offering services that require a public adjuster license...
Midwest - December 30, 2024
This year's top Insurance Journal Midwest headlines feature a range of misconduct, from fraud and embezzlement to high-profile lawsuits...
Southeast - January 2, 2025
BTW Solutions bills itself as a drug wholesaler and billing service -- and as a way for physicians to maximize profits on workers' compensation and personal-injury-protection patients through the use of topical creams and durable medical equipment...
Southeast - December 31, 2024
Officials assessed the damage on Sunday after a strong storm system moved across the southern U.S. over the weekend, spawning tornadoes and killing at least four people...
Southeast - December 31, 2024
Florida consumers, already fuming in recent years from higher property insurance premiums, repair costs and homeowner association fees, could soon see another burden on their pocketbooks: Duke Energy has filed a plan with the Florida Public Service Commission to recover about $1...
Southeast - December 31, 2024
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A theme park resort and a huge hotel in central Florida either have stopped using drones or canceled their drone-based shows after several drones collided and fell from the sky during a separate holiday celebration in downtown Orlando...
Southcentral - January 2, 2025
LULING, La. (AP) -- The crew of a tugboat was quickly rescued when their vessel sank into the Mississippi River following a collision with a tanker ship in Louisiana...
Southcentral - January 2, 2025
BTW Solutions bills itself as a drug wholesaler and billing service -- and as a way for physicians to maximize profits on workers' compensation and personal-injury-protection patients through the use of topical creams and durable medical equipment...
Southcentral - December 31, 2024
An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found Methodist Family Health in Little Rock, Ark...
Southcentral - December 31, 2024
Officials assessed the damage on Sunday after a strong storm system moved across the southern U.S. over the weekend, spawning tornadoes and killing at least four people...
West - January 2, 2025
State Compensation Insurance Fund in California announced that it will declare a $149 million dividend to qualifying policyholders with policies that took effect between Jan...
West - December 31, 2024
The conclusion of a criminal case against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer clears the way for a related civil lawsuit by relatives of the deceased woman and efforts to depose the actor under oath, attorneys for plaintiffs in the civil suit said Tuesday...
West - December 31, 2024
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquired Tustin, California-based Murray Gardner Insurance Agency Inc., dba BMR Insurance...
West - December 30, 2024
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Monday announced what he is calling the final step in his efforts to help the state's ailing homeowners insurance market with the Net Cost of Reinsurance in Ratemaking Regulation, which enables reinsurance as a ratemaking factor and requires insurers to increase coverage in high-risk areas...
International - January 2, 2025
Nexus Underwriting, a Brown & Brown group business, announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Arma Fusion Ltd...
International - January 2, 2025
The owner of an oil tanker seized by Finland on suspicion of breaking an undersea power line and four telecoms cables in the Baltic Sea last week is seeking the release of the ship, a lawyer representing the company said on Monday [Dec...
International - December 31, 2024
South Korean authorities are investigating airport infrastructure at the site of the country's worst civil air accident as questions grow over the role played in the disaster by a concrete wall at the end of the runway...
International - December 31, 2024
Commercial aviation has suffered its deadliest year since 2018 after the Jeju Air Co. disaster in South Korea and last week's downing of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane...