The Austin Association of Insurance Professionals held their 2019 installation dinner on Tuesday at Balcones Country Club in Austin, Texas. The 2019/20 officers and directors for AAIP were installed. In addition, the AAIP past presidents in attendance ...

Louisiana’s medical marijuana patients would be able to inhale cannabis, if senators agree to a proposal that won overwhelming support from lawmakers in the House. Rep. Ted James, a Baton Rouge Democrat, says his bill shouldn’t be seen as an …

The Frederick H. DiMeo Insurance Agency Inc. has purchased the personal lines division of Oakland, Calif.-based Ozwald and Speaker Insurance Services Inc. The acquisition includes the purchase of six books of business, adding a reported $1.2 million of...

The Ohio State Highway Patrol has begun a campaign urging Ohio motorists to wear their safety belts. The patrol says troopers will be encouraging drivers to “buckle up” to save lives. A statement released by the patrol this week says …

A city in Wyoming has settled a lawsuit over a fatal shooting by two police officers. Attorneys for the estate of John Randall Veach said Tuesday they settled the lawsuit for $925,000 in damages. Rawlins Police Sgt. Jared Frakes and …

A Greyhound driver who authorities say fell asleep before the bus careened off a road in the Utah desert two years ago was tired, sick and should never have been behind the wheel, according to a new lawsuit over the …

London’s marine insurance market has extended the list of waters deemed high risk to include Oman, the United Arab Emirates and the Gulf after ship attacks off Fujairah, officials said on Friday, in a move that could push up premiums. …

Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) are “highly likely” to have facilitated attacks last Sunday on four tankers including two Saudi ships off Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates, according to a Norwegian insurers’ report seen by Reuters. The UAE,...

California’s senate blocked a bill on Thursday that would have expanded the ability of consumers to sue companies over their handling of personal data, a win for tech industry groups concerned about wide-ranging privacy lawsuits. Under California’s dat...

AXA XL has promoted Marc Bertha as team lead for the U.S. Eastern Region Multinational Casualty group. Based in New York, Bertha will be leading the region’s underwriting team whose overall mission is to partner with new and existing clients …

Work has been completed on the first Connecticut home with a crumbling foundation, using funds from a captive insurance company created by the General Assembly in 2017. It took about six weeks to replace Kevin and Aisling McCloskey’s basement in …

More than a week after a cyberattack hobbled Baltimore’s computer network, city officials said Wednesday they can’t predict when its overall system will be up and running and continued to give only the broadest outlines of the problem. Baltimore’s gove...

Prosecutors say the limousine company operator charged in connection with an upstate New York crash that killed 20 people was aware of prior passenger complaints about the ill-fated vehicle and had even refunded fares. In a document filed last week …

Sompo Global Risk Solutions (GRS) has formed a new team offering insurance to clients in the life sciences industry. The GRS Life Sciences team is led by Todd Lauer who has joined Sompo GRS as senior vice president. Lauer brings …

U.S. senators warned allies that Chinese telecommunications companies such as Huawei Technologies Co. can’t meet security standards for advanced networks due in part to Chinese law that demands cooperation with security agencies. “There is no way in he...

Brazilian iron ore miner Vale SA told prosecutors in the state of Minas Gerais that a dam is at risk of rupturing at its Gongo Soco mine, about 40 miles from where its Brumadinho dam collapsed, killing more than 230 …

Aon plc announced organizational changes within its Global Reinsurance Clients team, which supports 25 of the largest global insurers. Part of Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions business, the team was launched in 2014 to ensure that the firm consistently deli...

The world’s first all-electric vertical takeoff and landing passenger jet has been unveiled after completing its first flight. German startup Lilium aims to have a fleet of the five-seat aircraft — which can operate with a pilot or in drone …

AM Besthas revised the outlooks to negative from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) of “a-” of Bermuda-based Third Point Reinsurance Co. Ltd. (TPRE) and Third Poin...

Weakening rules for banks and insurers after Brexit would be “anathema,” but Britain could change its style of regulating to respond faster to change, Bank of England Deputy Governor Sam Woods said on Thursday. “So as far as the stringency …

Europe’s biggest insurers are on the hook for as much as $450 million from a pair of airline crashes involving Boeing Co. 737 Max planes. Munich Re reckons it could pay 150 million euros ($168 million), an estimate that Chief …

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has suspended Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck from his position while he faces a 38-count indictment from a federal grand jury. On May 16, Kemp issued an executive order suspending Beck, effective immediately. The order came...

Higginbotham has forged an agreement with with Willis Towers Watson, under which Fort Worth-based Higginbotham will acquire an Oklahoma City group of insurance professionals led by broker Richard Ross who formerly were with Willis Tower Watson. The tra...

A few months before this year’s biennial legislative session, a report commissioned by Gov. Greg Abbott on lessons learned from Hurricane Harvey declared a dire need to “future-proof” the state. Some progressives hoped that might involve planning for c...

In Missouri, insurance companies owe a contractual duty to defend civil actions that allege liability of their insureds that is potentially covered under the terms of the subject insurance policy. As part of that duty, the insurer must act in …

A bill that would prohibit towing services from hiring “spotters” to report illegally parked vehicles is up for consideration in an Ohio House committee. A spotter as described in the bill is a person whose task is to report the …

The Louisiana Supreme Court has determined that state law does not expressly prohibit a clause in a commercial property insurance policy that specifies that any coverage dispute ending up in litigation must be heard in a forum, or venue, named …

Louis Vuitton has won the dismissal of a lawsuit by a California toy company that accused the French luxury goods maker of trying to interfere with its sales of a poop-shaped toy purse for children, Pooey Puitton. U.S. District Judge …

Bayer AG plans to argue that a $2 billion jury award and thousands of U.S. lawsuits claiming its glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup causes cancer should be tossed because a U.S. regulatory agency said the herbicide is not a public health …

Purdue Pharma LP and its billionaire owners are being sued by five more states alleging the company’s aggressive marketing of the OxyContin painkiller triggered a vast addiction epidemic that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in the U.S. The …