News

FM Global Rebrands As FM

FM Global said it will now be known simply as FM. The commercial property insurer on July 17 unveiled its new name and “titanium” logo at the company’s midyear meeting. “We believe that by uniting our businesses under the FM …

Georgia Appeals Court Questions Insolvency Pool’s Subrogation in Comp Cases

Georgia employers and their workers’ compensation insurers can rest a little easier after an appeals court this week narrowed the circumstances in which a state guaranty association can seek reimbursement on claims paid after staffing firms’ insurance carriers become insolvent. …

Popular California Restauranteur Fined $71K for Failing to Pay Overtime

A popular Sonoma County chef denied three workers at its Healdsburg, California establishment of more than $35,000 in overtime wages, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Investigators in the department’s Wage and Hour Division say chef Octavio Diaz shortchanged …

California Needs a Million EV Charging Stations — But That’s ‘Unlikely’ and ‘Unrealistic’

California will have to build public charging stations at an unprecedented — and some experts say unrealistic — pace to meet the needs of the 7 million electric cars expected on its roads in less than seven years. The sheer …

People Moves: Intact Hires Janssens as SVP of West Coast Commercial Surety; Odiorne Chief Deputy Insurance Commissioner in Washington

Intact Hires Janssens as SVP of West Coast Commercial Surety Intact Insurance Specialty Solutions, the brand for Intact Financial Corporation’s U.S. insurance company subsidiaries, headquartered in Plymouth, Minnesota, hired Erik Janssens as senior vice president of West Coast Commercial Surety. …

Religious Liberty Bars Priest’s Defamation Claim Against Bishop, Virginia Court Rules

A priest’s defamation claim against his bishop is barred by the religious liberty protections in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and the Virginia Constitution, a Virginia appeals court has ruled. The Virginia Court of Appeals found that the …

People Moves: DUAL Swiss Taps Tokio Marine’s Wyss as Managing Director; WTW Appoints 3 Senior Hires to International Casualty Team

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at managing general agent DUAL Europe and insurance broker WTW. A summary of these new hires follows here. DUAL Swiss Taps Tokio Marine’s Wyss as Managing Director DUAL Europe announced the appointment …

People Moves: VIAA Hires Sherman as Book Management Coach

Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), headquartered in St. Louis, hired Carly Sherman as a book management coach. Sherman is focused on improving personal lines production profitability with strategic and regional partner carriers. [inline-ad-1]

Texas Governor Criticizes CenterPoint Energy After Beryl Power Outages

The majority of Houston outages that followed Hurricane Beryl should be fixed by Wednesday, the city’s main utility company said as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to punish CenterPoint Energy even after the lights come back. The Texas Public Utility …

Deere Retreats From Diversity Measures After Online Attacks

Deere & Co., the world’s top farm machinery maker, is pulling back from diversity measures in the face of conservative criticism, the second agriculture-related company in less than a month to bend to such pressure. Deere said on the social …

News Archives by Month