December 4, 2024
A woman who admitted to drinking and who was driving well over twice the speed limit when she smashed into a golf cart, killing a bride who had just got married at a South Carolina beach, was sentenced Monday to …
December 4, 2024
EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants announced an expansion of its expertise in specialized areas with the addition of three new professionals in the Midwest. Rick Frechmann, Joleen Mayfield, and Bradley Snitzer bring decades of experience in employee benefits consulting and …
December 4, 2024
Snow continued to fall Monday around parts of the Great Lakes region, where storm-weary residents who have plowed and shoveled for days faced the prospect of even greater accumulations. Lake-effect snow fell on parts of western New York, Pennsylvania and …
December 4, 2024
Brian Thompson, a longtime UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive, was fatally shot in midtown Manhattan early Wednesday morning in what authorities described as a targeted attack that sent reverberations across the city and corporate boardrooms globally. Thompson, 50, was shot in …
December 4, 2024
A technology issue at Alaska Airlines resulted in the temporary grounding of flights in Seattle on Monday morning and problems into the afternoon for people trying to book flights on its website, the airline said. The Seattle-based company said in …
December 4, 2024
Growth in net earned premiums outpaced a slight increase in losses and loss adjustment expenses to result in the U.S. property/casualty industry posting a nine-month 2024 underwriting profit of $4.1 billion versus a loss of $32.1 billion last year. According …
December 4, 2024
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr. announced the indictment of officers of Inter-Insurance Agency Services Ltd. and the firm for their roles in an eight-year scheme in which they allegedly provided more than $250 million in coverage to clients while …
December 4, 2024
Mexico’s state-run oil company, facing heightened scrutiny over a string of deadly accidents at its facilities, set an ambitious goal early this year: No more fatalities. Just weeks after announcing that target, an explosion at a Petroleos Mexicanos oil platform …
December 4, 2024
Mattel was sued on Tuesday by a South Carolina mother for mistakenly putting a link to a pornographic website on packaging for dolls tied to the blockbuster movie “Wicked.” In a proposed class action filed in federal court in Los …
December 4, 2024
The Fortegra Group Inc., the Jacksonville, Florida-based specialty insurer and subsidiary of Tiptree Inc., announced it has received regulatory approval to launch a UK subsidiary, called Fortegra Insurance Company UK. The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) granted Fortegra UK the license, …