HCI Group Reports $85M in Profit for Q1, With Premium Growth for Most Subsidiaries May 7, 2026 By William Rabb Tampa-based HCI Group, now in its 20th year and its 18th year as a publicly traded company, reported a healthy...
People Moves: Alliant Names Lefebvre as VP Within Employee Benefits Group May 7, 2026 Ashley Lefebvre has joined Alliant Insurance Services as vice president within its employee benefits group in Houston, Texas. She will...
A Quieter Hurricane Season This Year Could Still Pummel the US Power Grid May 7, 2026 By Eric Roston Meteorologists are forecasting about 13 named Atlantic storms this season, or a little less activity than average. That sounds like...
Reporting Shows Georgia Officials Knew Carpet Mills Polluted Local Water May 7, 2026 By Dylan Jackson, Jason Dearen and Justin Price Starting in the 1970s, the textile mills of northwest Georgia relied on chemicals known as PFAS to add stain resistance...
Eric Cioppa, Long-Time Insurance Regulator and Leader, Passes Away in Maine May 7, 2026 By Andrew G. Simpson Eric Cioppa, a respected former national and Maine insurance regulatory leader, passed away from Multiple System Atrophy on May 1...
Root Inc. Opens 2026 With Best Quarterly Net Income Ever at Nearly $36M May 7, 2026 By Chad Hemenway Root Inc. reported a first quarter 2026 net income of $35.9 million—the best quarterly result in the company’s history—compared with...
Sandy Hook School Safety Program Draws 400K Anonymous Tips, Teaches Red Flags May 7, 2026 By Dave Collins Less than two years after her 6-year-old son was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, Nicole Hockley was...
Thieves Are Stealing Chile’s Solar Panels and Cashing In on the Black Market May 7, 2026 By Antonia Mufarech Just before midnight, two men in white coveralls and black gloves scale an electric fence at a solar farm in...
Iran Sets Out Process for Hormuz Transit But Shipowners Are Wary May 7, 2026 By Alaric Nightingale, Weilun Soon, Veena Ali-Khan and Grant Smith Iran has laid out an updated process for ships seeking to transit Hormuz, but several shipowners said they remained cautious...
One CMA CGM Vessel Attacked While Transiting Strait of Hormuz, Another Exits Gulf May 7, 2026 A CMA CGM container ship was attacked while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, injuring crew members and damaging the vessel,...