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SiriusPoint Enters Strategic Partnership With MGU Ryan Specialty Nordics

SiriusPoint Ltd., the Bermuda-based specialty insurer and reinsurer, and Stockholm-based managing general underwriter Ryan Specialty Nordics AB, have announced a new strategic trading partnership. SiriusPoint will support Ryan Specialty Nordics as it offers insurance coverage for onshore windfarms, primarily in …

Update: Tankers Tied to the Russian Oil Trade Grind to Halt Following US Sanctions

A chunk of the vast fleet of tankers that Russia uses to deliver its crude oil is grinding to a halt under the weight of US sanctions, a sign that tougher measures by western regulators might be starting to have …

Iceland Plans to Buy Out Homeowners in Volcano-Struck Town

Iceland’s government has agreed to buy all residential properties in the fishing town of Grindavik, which has become uninhabitable after three volcanic eruptions rocked the region in the last two months. Grindavik has been subject to repeated seismic activity since …

Build-A-Bear, Maker of Warren Buffett’s Squishmallows Face Off in Court

Warren Buffett is taking on Build-A-Bear. Jazwares, the Berkshire Hathaway-owned maker of the popular Squishmallows plush toys, sued Build-A-Bear Workshop on Monday, calling its new Skoosherz plush toy line “knockoffs” that infringed its intellectual property rights. Not to be outdone, …

What’s to Come in 2024: AI Expansion, More Catastrophes, Network Consolidation

No one can predict the future, but insurance professionals are likely the best qualified when it comes to predicting risk. For this special report, Insurance Journal magazine asked industry thought leaders their predictions for the property/casualty world in 2024 and …

Castle Key’s 54% Condo Rate Hike Gets Hearing, Showing New Pressures in Florida

The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation next week will hold hearings on two property insurers’ requests for 54% average rate increases, one of which has already affected more than 105,000 condominium unit owners. Castle Key Indemnity Co., one of Allstate …

People Moves: Burnham Benefits Names Foderaro Managing Director; Mercury Insurance Names Zhang Chief Data Analytics Officer

Burnham Benefits Names Foderaro Managing Director Burnham Benefits Insurance Services, headquartered in Irvine, California, named William Foderaro as managing director. Foderaro has more than 20 years of experience in the employee benefits industry. He was most recently managing director at …

OSHA Seeks $1M Penalty for New Jersey Contractor Added to ‘Severe Violator’ List

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited a New Jersey contractor for again exposing workers to fall hazards, this time while working at a construction site in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. OSHA said it has inspected Adrian …

Bucks County Refused to Pay Ransom to Restore Systems After Cyberattack

Officials in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, said the government refused to negotiate with the hackers claiming responsibility for the cyberattack on January 21 that shut down computer systems and the county never paid any ransom to restore the systems. Instead, the …

Driver Gets 25 Years for Deaths in ‘Pop-Up’ Car Rally

A driver charged in separate crashes that killed two people during a pop-up car rally in southern New Jersey has been sentenced to 25 years in state prison. Gerald White, 38, of New Castle, Delaware, pleaded guilty in December to …

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