Westchester Close to Settling on Hurricane Sally Condo Claim That Topped $230M March 5, 2026 By William Rabb Westchester Surplus Lines Insurance has reached a settlement with a Florida condominium association in a hurricane claim, three years after...
Primary Carrier’s Insolvency Triggers Excess Carrier’s Obligation March 5, 2026 By Andrew G. Simpson A waterworks products company facing asbestos claims is entitled to tap its Chubb excess insurance policy because its primary insurance...
People Moves: Merchants Insurance Appoints Walkup as Head of Claims March 5, 2026 Merchants Insurance Group, headquartered in Buffalo, New York, appointed Pete Walkup as its vice president, head of claims. Walkup oversees...
Cal/OSHA Fines Fabricator $212K Over Employee Finger Amputation March 5, 2026 California safety regulators levied a heavy fine against a metal fabricator over an incident that cost a worker a finger....
New York City Paid $117 Million Last Year for Police Misconduct Settlements March 5, 2026 By Michael R. Sisak New York City paid more than $117 million last year to settle police misconduct lawsuits in cases ranging from the...
Painter Fraudulently Collected $10K in Workers’ Comp After Returning From Injury March 5, 2026 A New York man who claimed he could not work because of an ankle injury sustained in his work as...
Nebraska AG Sues Roblox Over Alleged Child Safety Failures March 4, 2026 Nebraska Attorney General Hilgers this week announced a consumer‑protection and child‑safety lawsuit against Roblox Corporation, alleging that the company has...
Small Container Ship Abandoned After Being Hit in Hormuz March 4, 2026 By Alex Longley, Weilun Soon and Anthony Di Paola A container vessel was abandoned after being hit while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, a UK naval group said, as...
Gulf Shipping Crisis Deepens as Tankers Stranded for Fifth Day, US Sinks Iranian Warship March 4, 2026 By Yousef Saba, Jonathan Saul and Anna Hirtenstein The U.S.–Iran war widened on Wednesday after a U.S. strike hit an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, deepening a crisis...
For Some Small Businesses, a Tariff Refund Isn’t Worth the Pain of Pursuing March 4, 2026 By Nicholas P. Brown and Tom Hals The day the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the tariffs that had cost Ian Rosenberger’s backpack company Day Owl tens...