Yearly Archives: <span>2023</span>

Kathy Quintana of HUB International Honored with 2023 IICF Inclusion Champion Award

Award to be presented June 14 at IICF Inclusion in Insurance Global Conference in New York Los Angeles, May 30, 2023 – The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF), a unique nonprofit organization dedicated to helping communities and enriching lives, has …

Cycling Fatalities Reach 46-Year High

Cyclist fatalities reached a multi-decade high in 2021. According to a recent report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 966 pedal cyclists were killed in traffic crashes in 2021. That marked the most deaths in one year since 1975. …

How the 2023 Banking Crash Reminds Us Why Insurance Solvency Matters

This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. With a slew of recent financial institution failures, it’s an important time for insurers to put solvency front of mind. Throughout March of 2023, the world anxiously watched as a …

Keys Staffing Firm Owner Gets 32 Months for Illegal Worker Tax Violations

The owner of several Key West staffing companies is on his way to prison after a federal judge sentenced him to more than two years for hiring unauthorized alien workers and failing to pay taxes on their wages. Batyr Myatiev, …

Oregon City to Clear Sidewalk Tents to Settle Lawsuit with People With Disabilities

Portland, Oregon will remove tents blocking sidewalks under a tentative settlement in a lawsuit brought by people with disabilities who said sprawling homeless encampments prevent them from navigating Oregon’s most populous city. The federal class action lawsuit, filed in September, …

Finding Ways to Get Polluters to Pay for Climate Damages

The biggest achievement at the annual United Nations climate summit last year was committing to create a fund that would compensate the poorest cop28 for destruction wrought by global warming. One of the questions at the upcoming COP28 summit will …

Child Sexual Assault Lawsuit Bill Fails to Advance in Pennsylvania

Child sexual abuse survivors pressed Pennsylvania lawmakers Monday to move ahead with opening a two-year window for them to file otherwise outdated lawsuits over their claims, but a partisan fight in the Legislature kept the proposal bottled up with no …

Vermont School Settles 1st Amendment Suit by Coach Over Comments on Trans Athlete

A Vermont school district will reinstate a middle school soccer coach who was suspended for misgendering a transgender female athlete, and will delete any reference to bullying investigations from his daughter’s school record, under the settlement of a lawsuit that …

Takeaways from Our Conversation on ‘Behavior Products’

At first glance, it would be tempting to write off ventures like Behavior Labs or reepher, as consumer-oriented endeavors with little more than passing interest for insurance professionals specializing in cannabis. reepher, for example, is s a new type of …

Demolition Company Vows Repairs After Implosion Fallout Damages Nearby Homes

A blast of air and dust from the implosion of two smokestacks at a shuttered coal-fired power plant in western Pennsylvania last week felled power poles and caused damage to nearby homes. But the demolition company is vowing full repairs. …