July 11, 2024
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara today ordered insurers to preserve residential property insurance coverage for roughly 46,000 policyholders affected by the Thompson Fire in Butte County. The move follows an emergency declaration over the fire from Gov. Gavin Newsom on …
July 11, 2024
Fifth Third Bank agreed this week to pay a $5 million fine for illegally forcing vehicle insurance onto borrowers who had coverage. Fifth Third also agreed to pay a $15 million fine for illegal sales practices. The Cincinnati, Ohio-based bank …
July 11, 2024
Honeywell did not violate workplace anti-discrimination laws by firing a white engineer who refused to participate in mandatory diversity, equity and inclusion training after the Black Lives Matter movement began, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday. The 7th U.S. …
July 11, 2024
Brandon Rice joined Alliant Insurance Services, based in Irvine, California, as a vice president for its employee benefits group. Rice is based in Dallas. He most recently served as vice president at Lockton Companies, where he worked for over 18 …
July 11, 2024
U.S. bank regulators fined Citigroup $136 million for making “insufficient progress” fixing data management issues identified in 2020 and required the bank to demonstrate it was putting enough resources toward those efforts. The joint enforcement action from the Federal Reserve …
July 11, 2024
North Carolina authorities have charged one woman and are on the lookout for another in connection with a scheme to defraud a State Farm insurance company of more than $195,000. India Ayesha Wilkerson, 25, of Greensboro, was charged with insurance …
July 11, 2024
Days after Hurricane Beryl crashed through the city, Houston is still grappling with the aftershocks. Large swaths of America’s fourth-largest city are still without power, shutting stores and snarling traffic at non-functioning lights. Gas stations are either closed or swamped …
July 11, 2024
The National Rifle Association’s former finance czar, Wilson “Woody” Phillips, has been banned for a decade from managing money for any nonprofit company in New York, the state’s attorney general said Tuesday. Phillips agreed to the ban in May, three …
July 11, 2024
MADISON, Wis . (AP) — A federal judge ruled Monday that protesters can’t march through a security zone at the Republican National Convention, handing a defeat to liberals who had pushed to have closer access to where delegates will be …
July 11, 2024
A La Porte, Texas tank cleaning company faces over $800,000 in fines after the company allegedly disregarded federal safety standards that may have protected their employees from hazardous working conditions and prevented another employee from suffering a fatal injury. In …