| | Today's Headlines | | | | July 1, 2022 |
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| | National | | | | Conservative justices power 6-3 ruling; liberals dissent Ruling curbs EPA ability to regulate power plant emissions Biden vows to tackle... | | | | It has been a few years. Policyholders may have forgotten about that last barbeque mishap in their backyard. Maybe the memory has gotten... | | | | The new head of the government's road safety agency says it will intensify efforts to understand the risks posed by automated vehicle... | | | | Fifteen Black former or current employees at Tesla filed a lawsuit against the electric car maker on Thursday, alleging they were... | | | | ESG investment strategies are being probed for deceptive labeling, criticized for excluding firms like Tesla Inc. and questioned as to... | | | | Insurance technology vendor Vertafore reports that it has acquired MGA Systems, a provider of software for managing general agencies... | | | | There is overwhelming public support across the globe for using renewable energy, according to a new survey out from the Yale Program on... | | | | While most remote workers tend to be in “white collar” jobs with less physical injury risk than other industries such as construction or... | | | | InsurTechs bent on disrupting the insurance industry haven't succeeded so far, but a future wave of InsurTechs might... | | | | More National News » |
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| | Featured Events | | | | July 20 - July 21 / Austin, TX | | |
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| | East | | | | Coughlin, Inc., a Vermont-based company that owns 10 McDonald's franchise restaurants in Vermont and New Hampshire, will pay $1,600,000... | | | | Matt Neidlinger crested the hill of a narrow, twisty state road and found a nasty surprise waiting for him at the bottom. The ditch was a... | | | | The supermarket chain Wegmans agreed to pay $400,000 and upgrade its security practices over a data breach that exposed personal... | | | | THURMONT, Md. (AP) --Crews battled a fire at an overnight summer camp in western Maryland on Wednesday morning, but no injuries were... | | | | The Supreme Court declined on Thursday to take up a case involving a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers in New York... | | | | More East News » |
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| | Midwest | | | | An Ohio aluminum vehicle parts manufacturer cited for safety and health violations after a worker in Ravenna suffered fatal injuries in... | | | | An Amtrak passenger train was going about 87 mph (140 kph) when it collided with a dump truck at a rural Missouri railway crossing,... | | | | More Midwest News » |
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| | Southeast | | | | Florida property insurers have another cost increase to manage after the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund was approved for a premium... | | | | Safety improvement requirements to prevent injury or death from elevators inside North Carolina vacation cottages and short-term rentals... | | | | Several Alabama and Georgia laws that could indirectly affect property, liability and workers' compensation insurance take effect today,... | | | | Property reinsurance rates rose by as much as 50% in Florida at July 1 renewals and by up to 40% in the United States overall,... | | | | Eight months after it stopped renewing homeowners and rental property policies in Florida, Progressive Insurance announced it will now... | | | | More Southeast News » |
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| | South Central | | | | The second-biggest U.S. liquefied natural gas export facility hit by fire earlier this month will not be allowed to repair or restart... | | | | Two workers were presumed dead after a trench they were digging for a sewer line in Texas on Tuesday collapsed and buried them, officials... | | | | The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed a former state trooper to sue Texas over his claim that he was forced out of his job when he... | | | | More South Central News » |
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| | West | | | | Cain Velasquez, the former UFC heavyweight champion accused of trying to kill the man he claims molested his 4-year-old son, is suing the... | | | | Monterey, California-based Capital Insurance Group named Victor Foggie director of field operations. Foggie will oversee CIG's regional... | | | | PCF Insurance Services acquired Utah-based property/casualty managing general agent United Underwriters. United Underwriters offers... | | | | More West News » |
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| | International & Reinsurance | | | | For the first time since the devastating U.S. hurricanes of 2004 and 2005, property-catastrophe capacity contracted during the June/July... | | | | Property reinsurance rates rose by as much as 50% in Florida at July 1 renewals and by up to 40% in the United States overall,... | | | | State-controlled Russian National Reinsurance Co. (RNRC) is covering nearly all reinsurance of domestic business, its president said on... | | | | Tropical Storm Bonnie formed in the Caribbean east of Nicaragua, a dangerous system that threatens a potential humanitarian crisis but... | | | | Extreme weather events - from scorching heatwaves to unusually heavy downpours - have caused widespread upheaval across the globe this... | | | | The Board of Convex Group Ltd., the Bermuda-based specialty re/insurer, announced that Paul Brand, who founded the business in 2019 with... | | | | This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Verisk and Munich Re. A summary of these new hires follows here.... | | | | More International & Reinsurance News » |
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| | Insurance Journal Blogs and Columns | | | | This post is part of a series sponsored by SWBC. In the last two years, many homeowners have seen the value of their homes skyrocket.... | | | | More Blogs » |
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| | Research and Webinars | | | | | How can insurance companies use online face verification as part of their digital transformation strategies? Download our report... | | | | | During the pandemic, Cake & Arrow conducted qualitative research with hundreds of gig workers and small business owners to... | | | | | "They got planes in the air, and we had pictures the next day... before we could even get claim adjusters in there." - Tier 1... | | | | | Tune in Thursday, July 14th at 10am PT / 1pm ET for an expert panel discussion hosted by Insurance Journal. Here's what we'll... | | | | | AgentSync's Guide to the Price of "Business as Usual" in the Insurance Industry When an insurance organization considers adding... | | | | More research and webinars » |
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| | Insurance Journal TV | | | | | The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration declared in an April memo that cannabis seeds that... | | | | | A lot has changed in the world of automation since Apple first launched its virtual assistant,... | | | | Watch more videos at InsuranceJournal.tv » |
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