June 27, 2023
It seems that few are safe from soaring property insurance rates in Florida, not even those with strong connections to a higher authority. The Crux, a Catholic news outlet, reported that the Catholic Church’s Pensacola-Tallahassee Diocese has been unable to …
June 27, 2023
Former Audi boss Rupert Stadler was handed a suspended sentence of one year and nine months by a Munich court on Tuesday for fraud in the 2015 diesel scandal, becoming the first former Volkswagen board member to receive such a …
June 27, 2023
Insurers have come a long way on climate change, but they have a long way to get where we need to be to deal with a more hazardous planet. That was the assessment from Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler, a …
June 27, 2023
A U.S. judge on Monday granted preliminary approval to JPMorgan Chase’s $290 million settlement with women who said Jeffrey Epstein abused them, and that the largest U.S. bank turned a blind eye to the late financier’s sex trafficking. The approval …
June 27, 2023
Assicurazioni Generali’s plans to shed up to 20 billion euros ($21.87 billion) of insurance liabilities are being hampered as a surge in interest rates has complicated talks with buyers, three people familiar with the matter said. The Italian insurer embarked …
June 27, 2023
Preliminary testing of water and air quality along a stretch of the Yellowstone River on Montana where train cars carrying hazardous materials fell into the waterway following a bridge collapse did not indicate any threat to the public, state and …
June 27, 2023
Johnson & Johnson’s proposed $8.9 billion settlement of thousands of lawsuits alleging that its talc products cause cancer faces a crucial hurdle this week as a U.S. bankruptcy judge in New Jersey considers whether or not a J&J subsidiary may …
June 27, 2023
Pennsylvania’s state Senate wants to expand a ban on texting while driving and approved legislation on Thursday that would increase the penalties for motorists who are handling their cell phones for almost any activity while driving. The bill, approved 37-11, …
June 27, 2023
Canada’s British Columbia Highway 99 was closed in both directions on Monday due to a brush fire, the British Columbia Wildfire Services (BCWS) said in a post on Twitter. The brush fire broke out in southwest of Whyte Lake, approximately …
June 27, 2023
More than 90% of the world’s marine food supplies are at risk from environmental changes such as rising temperatures and pollution, with top producers like China, Norway and the United States facing the biggest threat, new research showed on Monday. …