Yearly Archives: <span>2021</span>

Cross Insurance Partners with Connecticut’s Daigle & Travers Insurance

Cross Insurance, a subsidiary of Cross Financial Corp., based in Bangor, Maine, and an independent insurance provider in New England, has partnered with Daigle & Travers Insurance of Fairfield County, Conn. The Daigle & Travers team of insurance experts offer …

NYPD Adopts Clearer Penalties for Excessive Force, Racial Bias

The New York City Police Department enacted new disciplinary rules on Friday that call for terminating police officers found to use racial profiling or “excessive deadly force.” The so-called “disciplinary matrix,” as Mayor Bill de Blasio called it, also lays …

Applied Specialty Underwriters Names Black to Lead Middle Market Surplus Lines

Applied Underwriters has named John Black, Sr., CPCU, to lead its expansion into middle market surplus lines. As executive vice president of the newly-expanded Applied Specialty Underwriters, Black, who has 35 years of underwriting experience, will focus on middle market …

Indonesia Earthquake Leaves Thousands Homeless, Killing at Least 84 People

MAMUJU, Indonesia (AP) – Aid was reaching the thousands of people left homeless and struggling after an earthquake that killed at least 84 people on an Indonesian island where rescuers intensified their work Monday to find those buried in the …

Here’s How European Satellites Can Help Predict the Next Weather Disaster

Spain began the new year battling Storm Filomena, a once-in-a-generation weather event that blanketed Madrid in snow and paralyzed the economy. Health workers were stranded, supermarkets shut, and the army was called in. At least four people died. “Now, consider …

BGC Insurance Rebrands as Corant Global

BGC Insurance (BGCI) has rebranded as Corant Global Ltd., which will become the holding company for all the insurance interests of BGC Partners Inc., a global brokerage and financial technology company, subject to regulatory consent. Corant will comprise the broking …

World’s Biggest Shipping Line Demands Action Against Piracy Surge Off West Africa

The world’s biggest shipping company demanded a more effective military response to surging pirate attacks and record kidnappings off the coast of West Africa. The number of attacks on vessels globally jumped 20% last year to 195, with 135 crew …

Zurich Insurance to Stop Insuring Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Project: Sources

Zurich Insurance Group will drop out of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 project in the face of looming U.S. sanctions against European companies that support construction of the $11 billion gas pipeline, two sources familiar with the situation said. The U.S. …

21 Georgia Counties Approved for Federal Aid for Zeta Cleanup, Repair

Several north Georgia counties are getting federal aid to repair infrastructure and clean up damage from Hurricane Zeta in October. The storm, which made landfall in Louisiana, blew over trees in metro Atlanta and areas to the north, causing widespread …

Sierra Specialty in California Names Sunderland Senior Underwriter

Clovis, Calif.-based Sierra Specialty Insurance Services has added Chris Sunderland as a senior property/casualty underwriter. Sunderland previously co-founded International Property & Casualty Insurance Brokers of Nevada Inc., which was recently acquired by Platinum Specialty Underwriting, a division of XPT Group, …