Higginbotham has forged an agreement with with Willis Towers Watson, under which Fort Worth-based Higginbotham will acquire an Oklahoma City group of insurance professionals led by broker Richard Ross who formerly were with Willis Tower Watson. The transaction expands Higginbotham’s …
A few months before this year’s biennial legislative session, a report commissioned by Gov. Greg Abbott on lessons learned from Hurricane Harvey declared a dire need to “future-proof” the state. Some progressives hoped that might involve planning for climate change …
In Missouri, insurance companies owe a contractual duty to defend civil actions that allege liability of their insureds that is potentially covered under the terms of the subject insurance policy. As part of that duty, the insurer must act in …
A bill that would prohibit towing services from hiring “spotters” to report illegally parked vehicles is up for consideration in an Ohio House committee. A spotter as described in the bill is a person whose task is to report the …
The Louisiana Supreme Court has determined that state law does not expressly prohibit a clause in a commercial property insurance policy that specifies that any coverage dispute ending up in litigation must be heard in a forum, or venue, named …
Louis Vuitton has won the dismissal of a lawsuit by a California toy company that accused the French luxury goods maker of trying to interfere with its sales of a poop-shaped toy purse for children, Pooey Puitton. U.S. District Judge …
Bayer AG plans to argue that a $2 billion jury award and thousands of U.S. lawsuits claiming its glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup causes cancer should be tossed because a U.S. regulatory agency said the herbicide is not a public health …
Purdue Pharma LP and its billionaire owners are being sued by five more states alleging the company’s aggressive marketing of the OxyContin painkiller triggered a vast addiction epidemic that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in the U.S. The …
Curv, a cloud-based institutional digital asset wallet service, has partnered with Munich Re to provide insurance protection of up to $50 million for digital assets offered through its service. Munich Re will offer an opt-in solution to Curv’s customers that …
Officials say that a tornado roared through Wake County, North Carolina for up to eight miles, uprooting trees and damaging houses and roads throughout the town of Zebulon. No injuries have been reported. Two rounds of severe weather moved through …
