Reinsurers Cautious About US Regional Property Cat as Storm Losses Rise: Gallagher Re November 22, 2023 By L.S. Howard After a costly 2023 severe convective storm season in the US, reinsurers underwriting in the regional property catastrophe market are...
Best Agency to Work For – Midwest Bronze Winner: Greater Insurance Service November 22, 2023 By Jahna Jacobson Sherri Gjermo, CEO of Greater Insurance Service Inc., is the second generation of leadership in the family business. And the...
Best Agency to Work For – South Central Bronze Winner: Higginbotham November 22, 2023 By Allen Laman Rusty Reid joined Higginbotham as the independent insurance agency’s twelfth employee in 1986. Today, about 2,800 of the company’s employees...
Kansas Refinery to Pay $23 Million for Clean Air Act Violations and Previous Pollution Problems November 22, 2023 OFFEYVILLE, Kan. (AP) – A Kansas refinery has agreed to pay more than $23 million for violating the federal Clean...
NTSB Focuses on Design Issue in Braking System as Cause of Chicago Train Crash November 22, 2023 CHICAGO (AP) – Federal safety officials investigating a Chicago commuter train crash that injured nearly 40 people when it slammed...
Texas Supreme Court Reverses Sanctions, Finds Carrier Had Right to Medical Records in UIM Case November 22, 2023 By Jim Sams The Texas Supreme Court on Friday reversed a Dallas County judge’s decision to sanction an insurer for making an “overbroad”...
Texas Manufacturing Company Cited for Willful Safety and Health Violations, Faces $596K in Proposed Penalties November 22, 2023 A U.S. Department of Labor workplace safety inspection at a prominent El Paso, Texas manufacturing company found the employer willfully...
Beware! Thanksgiving Risks to Watch November 22, 2023 By Jahna Jacobson Thanksgiving seems like the safest of holidays. No fireworks, no green beer, no candles burning brightly next to tinsel-covered kindling....
Nevada to Pay $340K in Settlement Over Prison Firefighting Conditions November 22, 2023 Nevada must pay $340,000 total to the ACLU of Nevada and eight people on a prison firefighting crew in a...
Governments Increasingly Will Foot Bill for Climate Risks as Insurers Exit: Report November 22, 2023 By Frances Schwartzkopff As insurers start to pull out from markets battered by the fallout of climate change, governments are increasingly at risk...