Recent Insurance Industry News

NTSB Wants FAA to Revise Runway Safety Assessments During Heavy Rainfall

• Volvo Cars Wins Approval to Import Vehicles With ‘Connected Car’ Technology

• OpenAI’s Altman Says AI Unlikely to Lead to ‘Jobs Apocalypse’

• Viewpoint: Tackling the Threat of Legal System Abuse

• Climate Change Fueling Growth of Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella

• SEC Chairman Eyes ‘Gun-Jumping’ Rule Changes to Spur More IPOs

Two More Oil Supertankers Exit Hormuz to Help Push Up Flows

• Tanker Reports External Explosion off Oman Coast, Crew Safe, UKMTO Says

• India’s Prized Alphonso Mango Crop Ruined by Weather

• Climate Change Fueling Growth of Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella

• Markets/Coverages: Amiga Specialty Secures Lloyd’s Capacity for New Yachts Division

• People Moves: Aon Promotes Hoffman as Global CEO of Commercial Risk; HDI Global Names Schulte-Schrepping as Head of Liability Global Risk, Succeeding Maurer

Lawyer Who Filed Viral Suit Against JPMorgan Seeks to Exit Case

• USI Insurance Services Claims Ex-Broker Poached Clients for Own New Agency

• Initial Report Finds Fatal Fire, Explosion at Maine Lumber Mill Was Accidental

• Uber, Lyft Drivers in Massachusetts Form First US Ride-Share Union

• US Supreme Court Denies Meta’s Challenge to Vermont Social Media Addiction Lawsuit

• After Complaint, GEICO Agrees to Modify Cancellation Process That Uses AI

Shepherd Insurance Acquires Pair of Indiana Agencies

• Woman Fired by Indiana College Over Charlie Kirk Post to Receive $225K Settlement

• Northwestern Medicine Agrees to Pay $325K in Religious Discrimination Case

• World Acquires Kansas’ Agency West

• Inszone Acquires Michigan’s Legacy Partners

• Record-Setting Drought Devastates Wheat Crop in Kansas

4 Arrested in Louisiana Insurance Fraud Scheme

• EEOC Sues Buc-ee’s for Alleged Disability Discrimination at Texas Store

• Texas Sues Discord Over Alleged Child Predator Exposure

• Inszone Acquires Texas’ Taylor Insurance Agency

• Rainy April Delays Corpus Christi’s Projected Water Crisis by 3 Months

• Arkansas Lawsuit Alleges Discrimination by White Nationalist Group in Land Sale

Florida Bill, Waiting on Governor, Asks E-Bikers to Slow Down if Pedestrians Near

• World Insurance Expands Florida Business with Lock Insurance Agency

• Insurance Mogul Lindberg Gets 12 Years for $2 Billion Fraud

• Supreme Court Tosses Florida Suit Over Immigrant Drivers’ Licenses

• Insurers Settle in Wrongful Conviction Case, Can’t Yet Escape Sex Trafficking Coverage

• Bezos’ Blue Origin Plans $600 Million Expansion in Florida

Insurance Attorneys Flip $1M Hail Claim into Nearly $2M Suit for Contractor Interference

• Emergency Reserve Oil Heads to California for First Time

• Fatalities Reported in Washington State Packaging Facility Explosion

• California Officials Lift Evacuation Orders for Residents Near Damaged Chemical Tank

• Crest Insurance Group Names Hart Vice President, Employee Benefits

• California Narrows Evacuation Area With Risk ‘Off the Table’