| | Today's Headlines | | | | January 19, 2022 | | | | Today's Headline Sponsor: Smart Choice |
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| | National | | | | There were 1,034 announced insurance agency mergers and acquisitions in 2021, up 30% from 795 reported in 2020, according to agency... | | | | A federal judge in New York has dismissed a potential class action against Marsh & McLennan by two former employees who sued after the... | | | | AT&T and Verizon Communications on Tuesday agreed to temporarily defer turning on some wireless towers near key airports to avert a... | | | | The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported two more cases of highly pathogenic avian flu in wild birds on Tuesday, raising risks for... | | | | Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. has agreed to pay $420 million to settle shareholder litigation alleging the company hid an... | | | | Digital insurance provider Honeycomb announced it has raised $15.4 million in a Series A funding and plans to expand into more states.... | | | | A year of unprecedented cyber-attacks, business interruption and supply chain disruption, along with natural catastrophe activity has... | | |  Insurance rates are rising, capacity is shrinking, and carriers are tightening their underwriting requirements. As a result, agents must... | | |  The insurance industry has changed dramatically over the past decade in response to increasingly stringent regulations,... | | | | More National News » |
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| | East | | | | Federal prosecutors have charged 13 people--including a New York City police officer, an attorney and four physicians--in two indictments... | | | | New Yorkers who were sexually abused as adults could sue abusers in civil court under a bill that supporters are again urging the state... | | | | Alera Group reports it has acquired Foa & Son, an international insurance broker based in New York City. Terms were not... | | | | More East News » |
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| | Midwest | | | | Actuarial Risk Management Names Terrence Cummings as Senior Consulting Actuary Actuarial Risk Management, a actuarial consulting firm,... | | | | Two men died and five people were injured early Monday in a fire at a multi-family dwelling in Pontiac, authorities said. Eleven adults... | | | | The family of a delivery driver who died last month when a tornado collapsed the central Illinois Amazon facility where he worked filed a... | | | | More Midwest News » |
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| | Southeast | | | | Florida took a step toward opening its distressed property insurance market to more carriers Tuesday when a Senate committee approved a... | | | | Drugmaker Endo International plc said on Tuesday it had agreed to pay up to $65 million to resolve claims by the state of Florida and... | | | | Ten months ago, historic flooding in eastern Kentucky displaced dozens of people and damaged homes and businesses all along the Kentucky... | | | | The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance is reminding residents that the state has $1 million available for firefighting... | | | | Orion180, a homeowners insurance provider based in Florida, announced that it has made Ryan Jesenik chief operations officer. Jesenik... | | | | California-based Relation Insurance Services has reached across the country to acquire trucking industry specialist Allen Insurance... | | | | More Southeast News » |
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| | South Central | | | | A wildfire burning east of Austin, Texas was likely the resulted of a planned burn, officials said. The Rolling Pines Fire in Bastrop... | | | | An early morning fire on Jan. 14 at a church in Louisiana's capital left $150,000 worth of damages but no injuries, authorities said. The... | | | | Louisiana's fisheries and seafood businesses experienced approximately $580 million in total losses resulting from four hurricane between... | | | | More South Central News » |
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| | West | | | | The Biden administration on Tuesday unveiled a 10-year plan to treat and maintain millions of additional acres of forests in the western... | | | | Risk Strategies acquired Burke Insurance Group LLC, a New Mexico-based commercial retail insurance agency. The acquisition marks Risk... | | | | California workers' compensation COVID-19 claim volume continues to track with the state's fluctuating infection trends, as the latest... | | | | Homeowners of America, a property/casualty insurance provider and subsidiary of Porch Group Inc., launched service in Montana. With the... | | | | More West News » |
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| | International & Reinsurance | | | | A group of the world's biggest insurers and reinsurers jointly pledging to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from their underwriting... | | | | Loss-affected lines of business, such as property catastrophe in Europe, cyber or retrocession, continued to see significant price... | | | | Asian insurer FWD Group has raised $200 million in new funding ahead of its planned Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO), according to... | | | | Canada's financial sector is facing a talent shortage in sustainable finance as demand for people who can evaluate ESG-related risks and... | | | | A UK High Court on Tuesday threw out a case brought by climate activists against the country's oil and gas regulator OGA, rejecting their... | | | | The cost of a comprehensive car insurance policy in Britain is expected to be volatile this year, after rising 5% in the final quarter of... | | | | This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Hamilton Re, Willis Towers Watson and Howden Re. A summary of these... | | | | More International & Reinsurance News » |
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| | Insurance Journal Blogs and Columns | | | | I came across this article on Insurance Journal (of course!) today. Can a Self-Driving 40-Ton Truck Be Safe? Developers Say Yes But... | | | | More Blogs » |
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