Almost two years after a group of independent claims adjusters alleged that insurers had deceptively altered their damage estimates and low-balled policyholders, Florida’s chief financial officer has issued an emergency rule barring similar actions in […]
With Hurricane Milton now expected to produce several hundred thousand wind-damage claims and with the storm coming so soon on the heels of Hurricane Helene, industry leaders are bracing for significant delays in claims adjusting. […]
It’s going to take about two weeks to remove smoldering debris from a Maine town’s trash incinerator after a fire burned in the waste for a week, officials said Tuesday. Firefighters have been stationed continuously […]
Amwins and Floodbase have launched a municipal flood insurance program designed to insure California municipalities against previously uncovered losses due to atmospheric river flooding. The flood program closes the insurance gap with policy payouts that […]
The state attorney general’s latest report on the deadly 2023 Lahaina wildfire flagged various locked gates that blocked people trying to flee as flaws in Maui’s evacuation planning. Yet a padlocked gate where the largest […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached a tentative $4.2 settlement with a firm that owned and operated a major East Coast refinery that was shuttered after an explosion and fire in 2019. The deal […]
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California governing committee selected Andrea Coleman, WCIRB executive vice president and chief operating officer, as the organization’s new president and CEO. Coleman’s promotion will take effect February 1, […]
Marriott International has agreed to settle with the Federal Trade Commission and 50 state attorneys general over a series of data breaches at a guest-reservation system subsidiary. According to multiple statements from the states, Marriott […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appellate court is reviewing a civil rights lawsuit alleging a south Louisiana parish engaged in racist land-use policies to place polluting industries in majority-Black communities. The Fifth U.S. Circuit […]
Hub International Limited (Hub) and WestStar Bank (WestStar), the leading community financial institution in the Borderplex Region, jointly announced the sale of the assets of WestStar Insurance Agency, Inc. (WestStar Insurance) by WestStar to Hub. […]
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