April 8, 2025
Hub International, a global insurance brokerage and financial services firm, has acquired Meyer & Rosenbaum in Meridian, Mississippi, an insurance agency that was founded in 1932. The agency offers commercial and personal lines products, and the merger will expand Hub’s …
April 7, 2025
In a March memo to lawmakers, Florida’s Office of Insurance Regulation sharply criticized the state’s rather unique two-agency insurance regulatory structure, arguing that the Department of Financial Services has dropped the ball on consumer complaints, investigations and insurer affiliate companies. …
April 7, 2025
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — A federal lawsuit alleging North Carolina’s new electronic courts records and case management system contributed to unlawful arrests or extended jail detainments can continue against the system’s developer and a county sheriff, a judge ruled this …
April 7, 2025
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Workers at an East Tennessee plastics company who died in flooding from last year’s Hurricane Helene had time to evacuate, albeit by “makeshift routes,” according to an investigation from the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration …
April 7, 2025
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A 9-year-old Kentucky boy who died in floodwaters while walking to catch his school bus was remembered by his classroom teacher as the “sweetest, kindest boy.” The death of Gabriel Andrews stunned residents in the Bluegrass …
April 4, 2025
A Florida House of Representatives panel went straight to the source of a consultant’s report that has caused widespread concern among lawmakers about insurance company profit-shifting. But the hour-long web interview with Arizona-based consultant Jan Moenck shed only limited light …
April 4, 2025
The South Carolina Department of Insurance named Andy Noga, formerly CEO and general counsel of GuideOne Insurance Group, as director of captives, underscoring the state’s commitment to fostering captive insurance companies, the DOI said Wednesday. “We focused on identifying a …
April 3, 2025
Deadly storms and flooding rains left a path of destruction across 14 states in the US South and Midwest, knocking out power to more than 400,000 customers. Record rain fell in Memphis and eastern Missouri overnight and more is expected …
April 3, 2025
What’s in a name? Enough confusion to sink a subrogation lawsuit and appeal brought by the insurer for a burned-up Hardee’s restaurant, the North Carolina Court of Appeals said Wednesday. “…The trial court properly determined that Intrepid Agency lacked standing …
April 3, 2025
Nashville-based FB Financial Corp., parent company of FirstBank and FirstBank Insurance Agency, plans to merge with Southern States Bancshares, the parent of Southern States Bank, headquartered in Anniston, Alabama, the bank announced this week. Southern States does not offer insurance …