Government Spending Bill Includes Flood, TRIA Renewals and Obamacare Taxes Repeal December 17, 2019 By Erik Wasson and Laura Davison Congress is planning to use a $1.4 trillion package of two must-pass spending bills to repeal Obamacare taxes, raise the...
SAN Group Hires Blatchley as Agency Development Field Specialist December 17, 2019 Satellite Agency Network Group Inc. (SAN) has hired Nick Blatchley as agency development field specialist for Western New York and...
Dartmouth Student Lawsuit Settled Over Baseball Injury December 17, 2019 A lawsuit filed by a Dartmouth College student against the school who was seriously injured during baseball practice has been...
Delaware Attorney General Loses Appeal Bid in Opioid Lawsuit December 17, 2019 By Randall Chase The state Supreme Court has refused a request by Delaware’s attorney general to review a judge’s decision dismissing Walgreens as...
Large New Jersey Hospital System Says It Was Hit by Ransomware Attack December 17, 2019 New Jersey’s largest hospital system said Friday that a ransomware attack last week disrupted its computer network and that it...
British Watchdog FCA Probes Data Sharing in Financial Services December 17, 2019 By Huw Jones Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is investigating whether sharing data with outside competitors could be extended beyond banks to savings,...
Pirates Attack Oil Tanker in West Africa, Kidnapping Another Crew December 17, 2019 By Olivia Konotey-Ahulu, Prejula Prem and Alex Longley An oil tanker was attacked on Sunday in West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea and most of its crew were kidnapped,...
Ed Bermuda Taps Simons from Marsh as Head of Business Development December 17, 2019 Ed, the London-based reinsurance, wholesale and specialty broker, announced the appointment of Mark Simons as head of Business Development and...
New UK Broker McGill & Partners Grows Rapidly in First 6 Months of Trading December 17, 2019 New boutique risk solutions business McGill and Partners has grown rapidly in its first six months of trading following “a...
There’s a 60,000-Year-Old Method to Help Battle Australia’s Bushfires December 17, 2019 By Jason Scott Australia’s indigenous people say the bushfire-ravaged country is paying the price for ignoring their expertise in managing the ecology of...