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USGS: Nearly 75% of US Could Experience A Damaging Earthquake
Jan 22 2024 // Nearly 75% of the U.S. could experience damaging earthquake shaking, a recent U.S. Geological Survey report shows. A USGS-led team of more than 50 scientists and engineers in the latest USGS National Seismic Hazard Model...
Western U.S. States Had Among Highest Car Theft Rates, Report Shows
Jan 22 2024 // A new report shows Colorado has the most car thefts, while populous California made the top 10 list. The report’s authors analyzed data from the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer, which showed the amount of motor...
People Moves: Liberty Specialty Markets Appoints Bolaños as CUO, Moreno as President US, LatAm; HDI Global Names Tarantino MD of Singapore Branch as Silton Retires
Jan 19 2024 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Liberty Specialty Markets and HDI Global. A summary of these new hires follows here. Liberty Specialty Markets Names Bolaños as CUO, Moreno as President...
Deep Freeze Across South Central US Forces LNG Exporters to Cancel, Delay Cargoes
Jan 18 2024 // The recent freeze across Texas and Louisiana disrupted scheduled exports of US liquefied natural gas, temporarily tightening some supply of the heating and power-plant fuel. The Cameron LNG export plant in Louisiana...
Fishing Fee Case May Lead Supreme Court to Limit US Agency Powers
Jan 18 2024 // The US Supreme Court questioned a longstanding legal doctrine that gives federal agencies wide berth to interpret unclear laws as the justices heard two appeals that would constrain environmental, consumer-protection and...
Insurers Seek to Exclude US, UK Ships From Red Sea Coverage
Jan 17 2024 // Some ship insurers are starting to avoid covering US and UK merchant ships against war risks when they navigate the southern Red Sea, another sign of blowback since the two nations’ airstrikes on Yemen last...
US Supreme Court to Hear Case on Starbucks Firing Pro-Union Workers in Tennessee
Jan 16 2024 // (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a challenge by Starbucks to a judicial decision that required the coffee chain to rehire seven employees at one of its cafes in Memphis, Tennessee who a...
The Avalanche Risk is High in Much of Western U.S.
Jan 16 2024 // As a massive winter storm dumped snow across much of the western U.S., some hardy winter sport enthusiasts headed to ski resorts and backcountry slopes despite frigid temperatures during the long Martin Luther King Jr. Day...
US Merchant Vessel Struck by Anti-Ship Missile as Shippers Told to Avoid Red Sea
Jan 16 2024 // Houthi militants hit a US-owned commercial vessel with an anti-ship ballistic missile on Monday, underscoring warnings that the world’s most important trade artery remains too risky for navigation. The Gibraltar...
US House Votes to Repeal Labor Board Rule on Contract, Franchise Workers
Jan 16 2024 // The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives on Friday voted to repeal a federal labor board rule set to take effect in February that would treat companies as the employers of many contract and franchise workers and...
Houthi Attacks on Shipping in Red Sea Persist; U.S. and Allies Strike Back
Jan 12 2024 // The United States and Britain carried out strikes from the air and sea against Houthi military targets in Yemen in response to the movement’s attacks on ships in the Red Sea. The Houthis have been targeting vessels...
People Moves: AXIS Appoints Tan Head of Wholesale Casualty; Fiato Named Allstate Chief Claims Officer; Schoberth to Lead Canopius US Distribution
Jan 12 2024 // AXIS Capital Holdings Limited named Anna Tan as head of wholesale casualty. Tan joins AXIS from Navigators, a brand of The Hartford, where she served for over 12 years, most recently as head of excess casualty. Before...
Auto Insurance Costs Soar by 20% in the US
Jan 12 2024 // There’s no relief in sight for US car owners who’ve faced soaring costs of maintaining a vehicle in the past two years. Prices of motor-vehicle insurance rose 20.3% in December from a year earlier, the biggest...
Rokstone Launches Kentucky-based TPA for U.S. Agricultural Claims
Jan 11 2024 // Rokstone, a specialty insurance and reinsurance managing general agency, has launched a new third-party administrator service based in Kentucky. Part of the Aventum Group, Rokstone said its new Verus TPA will manage...
MarketScout: 2023 US Commercial Composite Rate Up 4.56%
Jan 10 2024 // According to the MarketScout Market Barometer, U.S. commercial property/casualty insurance rates rose 5.6% in the fourth quarter of 2023, resulting in a total composite rate increase of 4.56% for the whole of...
Russia Oil Tankers Are Doing Strange Things Since Ramp Up of US Sanctions
Jan 8 2024 // There are growing signs that Russia’s oil flows might be facing disruption in the aftermath of a ramp up in US sanctions targeting traders and shipping companies moving the nation’s petroleum. Over the past...
Google Must Bargain With YouTube Worker Union, US Labor Board Rules
Jan 5 2024 // Alphabet Inc’s Google violated U.S. labor law by refusing to bargain with a union representing contract workers for YouTube Music, a federal agency has ruled. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in a decision...
US Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to EPA’s ‘Good Neighbor’ Air Pollution Plan
Jan 5 2024 // The U.S. Supreme Court on late last month said it would hear a bid to block the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing a federal regulation aimed at reducing ozone emissions that may worsen air pollution in...
SpaceX Sues US Agency That Accused it of Firing Workers Critical of Elon Musk
Jan 5 2024 // Rocket and satellite maker SpaceX on Thursday sued a U.S. labor board to block its case accusing the company of illegally firing employees who sent a letter to company executives calling CEO Elon Musk “a distraction...
People Moves: Stirk to Join Marsh as US Chief Growth Officer; Liberty Mutual Grows Cyber Team
Jan 4 2024 // Marsh, a business of Marsh McLennan headquartered in New York, hired Andy Stirk as U.S. chief growth officer effective January 16. Stirk is based in New York. With 20 years of insurance industry experience, Stirk rejoins...
