Texas Sunset Board: Legislature Needs to Decide Nature of Windstorm Insurer January 23, 2019 By Stephanie K. Jones To be the insurer of last resort for wind and hail insurance along the Texas coast, without state support and...
Indiana’s United Health Actuarial Services Acquired by Risk Strategies January 23, 2019 Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired United Health Actuarial Services Inc. (UHAS),...
Shutdown Stalls West Virginia Recovery From 2016 Floods January 23, 2019 A program that helps people rebuild homes that were damaged or destroyed in West Virginia’s 2016 flood is being affected...
Arrest Made in $1.4M Florida Comic Book Heist January 23, 2019 A few comic books from a stolen Batman collection worth $1.4 million have been recovered after an arrest in Arizona....
J&J to Pay States $120 Million to Settle Hip Implant Marketing Claims January 23, 2019 By Tina Bellon Johnson & Johnson and its DePuy Orthopaedics unit have agreed to pay $120 million to resolve deceptive marketing claims by...
Brightway Adds Staplin as In-House Counsel, Promotes Maddox, Pollard January 23, 2019 Jacksonville, Fla.-based Brightway Insurance has added Max Staplin as its in-house counsel and member of its executive leadership team. In...
New Florida Gov Wants State Ban on Smokable Medical Marijuana Ended January 23, 2019 By Brendan Farrington and Mike Schneider Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized the Legislature’s implementation of a medical marijuana law and said last week that if...
California’s Massive Wildfires Push Travelers to Seek Higher Premiums January 22, 2019 By Katherine Chiglinsky California’s deadly wildfires are raising the specter of higher insurance premiums for homeowners in the state. After “two significant years...
California Lawmaker to Introduce Bill to Free up Funding for Retrofits January 22, 2019 California state Sen. Majority Leader Bob Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, on Tuesday announced a bill to allocate $1 billion in funding...
Travelers Grew Q4 Profit Despite California Wildfire, Hurricane Michael Losses January 22, 2019 Travelers Cos. reported that despite catastrophe losses from the California wildfires and Hurricane Michael, it boosted its profit in the...