Recent Insurance Industry News

Some Large Accounts Start Seeing Chubb’s Back as it Focuses on Middle, Small

• Global Commercial Insurance Rates Drop 4% but Casualty Rates Are Rising: Marsh

• Microsoft Says Some SharePoint Server Hackers Now Using Ransomware

• Labor Department Proposes Over 60 Rule Changes in Push to Deregulate Workplaces

• Fewer Insureds Shopping, More Switching, Says JD Power

• EPA to Withdraw Foundation of Greenhouse Gas Rules, Sources Say

Global Commercial Insurance Rates Drop 4% but Casualty Rates Are Rising: Marsh

• MS Amlin Names Former Brit CUO Dart as CEO, Succeeding Carrier

• Top UN Court Says Treaties Compel Wealthy Nations to Curb Global Warming

• Brown & Brown (Europe) Agrees to Acquire UK-Based Bloodstock Broker

• Wildfires in Mediterranean Leave a Dozen Dead as Heat Soars

• Chinese Engines, Shipped as ‘Cooling Units,’ Power Russian Drones Used in Ukraine

Smoking or Oxygen Machine Eyed as Possible Causes of Assisted Living Home Fire

• New Jersey to Offer Mobile Driver’s Licenses

• Widow of Police Officer Who Committed Suicide Denied Workers’ Compensation

• Massachusetts Announces New Safety Measures for Assisted Living Facilities

• New Hampshire Gunmaker Immunity Law Could Factor Into Sig Sauer Lawsuit

• Ex-NYPD Commissioner Targets Mayor Adams in $10 Million Defamation Claim

People Moves: Pharmacists Mutual Appoints Mosher to Board of Directors

• Congressman Jim Jordan Deposed in Ohio State Sex Abuse Case

• Ohio Waste Management Firm Faces $602K in Fines After Worker’s Death

• Illinois Staffing Agency to Pay $600K for Misclassifying Workers

• 8th Circuit Upholds Verdict Against Nebraska Trucking Company in ADA Violation Case

• Insurer Says it Has No Duty to Defend Kansas City Super Bowl Parade Shooting Lawsuit

People Moves: Alliant Names Beach as SVP Within Employee Benefits Team

• Call of Duty Maker Argues First Amendment Protection in Uvalde Shooting Lawsuit

• Long-Standing Problems Led Up to Deadly Texas Floods, Lawmakers Told

• NTSB Blames Cellphone Distraction for Mississippi River Barge Collision

• Texas Senate Doubles Down on THC Ban

• General Motors Insurance Expands to 3 New States, Including Louisiana

Judge Approves $318M From Sale of Lindberg’s Software Firms to Repay Victims

• Kentucky DOI Posts Rules on Wind-Mitigation Grant Program

• Video Shows Florida Deputies Punching Man. Was He Reaching for Knife?

• 11th Circuit Upholds $1.75M Verdict Against Church Mutual on Georgia Roof Claim

• Slave Descendants Still Fighting for Georgia Court to Hear Discrimination Claims

• Alabama Man’s Death Ruled a Homicide After Police Kneeled on His Neck

California Department of Insurance Completes Final Review of Wildfire Model

• Tanker Truck Crashes and Spills Fuel Into a Creek on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula

• Edison Sets Up Compensation Program for Eaton Fire Victims

• General Motors Insurance Expands to 3 New States, Including Louisiana

• Homes Charred to Rubble in LA Fires Are Given New Life Through Recycling

• Heffernan Insurance Brokers Acquires Pac Global Insurance Brokerage