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Higginbotham Enters Indiana with Synergy Insurance Acquisition
Higginbotham has acquired Mishawaka, Indiana-based Synergy Insurance, giving the firm its first footprint in the state. Synergy Insurance Group is an independent insurance agency providing services to businesses and individuals across northern Indiana and southern Michigan. Higginbotham provides insurance, financial …
POSTED DECEMBER 10, 2025 7:05 PM |
Court Clerk in Murdaugh Trial Pleads Guilty to Showing Sealed Exhibits
The former court clerk in South Carolina who helped out with the murder trial of attorney Alex Murdaugh pleaded guilty Monday to criminal charges for showing sealed court exhibits to a photographer and lying about it in court. Former Colleton …
POSTED DECEMBER 10, 2025 5:59 PM |
Is a Mass. Auto Insurer Allowed to Refuse to Offer Coverage Due to Flood Warning?
Can an auto insurer in Massachusetts refuse to offer collision and comprehensive coverages during a flood warning despite a state law that makes it mandatory to offer such coverages? The industry and public are on the road to finding out. …
POSTED DECEMBER 10, 2025 5:10 PM |
People Moves: Howden Taps Former Gallagher Exec Strickland to Launch Space Insurance Practice; Liberty Promotes Groenen to Head of Portfolio Solutions, Europe
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Howden and Liberty Speciality Markets. A summary of these new hires follows here. Howden Taps Former Gallagher Exec Strickland to Launch Space Insurance Practice Howden, the London-based insurance intermediary group, has …
POSTED DECEMBER 10, 2025 4:35 PM |
Trump Giving Farmers Hit by China Trade War $12B in Aid
President Donald Trump announced a $12 billion farm aid package Dec. 8 — a boost to farmers who have struggled to sell their crops while getting hit by rising costs after the president raised tariffs on China as part of …
POSTED DECEMBER 10, 2025 4:28 PM |
Settlement Approved for New Orleans Archdiocese to Pay Hundreds of Abuse Victims
he New Orleans Archdiocese will pay at least $230 million to hundreds of victims of clergy sexual abuse under a settlement approved Monday by a federal judge that follows years of negotiations. Richard Trahant, an attorney representing victims in the …
POSTED DECEMBER 10, 2025 3:54 PM |
Hartford: 10-Year Analysis Shows Shifts in Common, Expensive Small-Business Claims
Liability risks for small businesses have shifted over the last decade, with fire and slip-and-falls becoming more expensive while water and freezing damage claims are now the most common type of claim. The Hartford analyzed more than one million small-business …
POSTED DECEMBER 10, 2025 3:42 PM |
Markets/Coverages: MGA Navium Launches Consortium for Pre-Launch Satellite Risks
Navium Marine, the marine-focused specialty MGA operating through The Fidelis Partnership’s Pine Walk platform, announced the launch of the “Constellation Consortium,” which it described as “the largest satellite pre-launch consortium in the Lloyd’s market.” With the global satellite sector continuing …
POSTED DECEMBER 10, 2025 3:33 PM |
FEMA Adds Another $33M for Helene Recovery in North Carolina
The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced another $33 million in Hurricane Helene recovery projects in North Carolina, bringing the agency’s total spending on public assistance grants since the storm to more than $1 billion. The funding is on top of …
POSTED DECEMBER 10, 2025 3:32 PM |
Michigan Reports Finds 2019 Auto Reform Reduced Insurance $357
The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services this month released a report on the impact of the state’s 2019 auto insurance reform and found cost was reduced an average of $357 per vehicle. “In 2019, Democrats and Republicans in …
POSTED DECEMBER 10, 2025 3:21 PM |
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Lawsuit Seeks Changes to Disney Parks’ Disability Policies
Changes that Disney made to a popular program that lets qualifying disabled people skip long lines at its California and Florida theme parks are too restrictive, disabled fans contend in a federal lawsuit and shareholder proposal that seek to expand …
POSTED DECEMBER 10, 2025 6:00 AM |
California Again Delays Wildfire Protection Rules for Homes
A California state agency won’t meet Gov. Gavin Newsom’s year-end deadline to finish long-delayed regulations to protect homes from wildfires, rules that experts say could have limited the destruction of the January Los Angeles firestorms. At a meeting of the …
POSTED DECEMBER 10, 2025 6:00 AM |
Excavator Bucket That Crushed Worker Leads to $170K Fine for Washington Contractor
A contractor was fined $170,000 for workplace violations that resulted in a 3,000-pound excavator bucket falling on an employee in southwest Washington. The Rotschy Inc. construction company was hit with $170,000 in fines from the Washington State Department of Labor …
POSTED DECEMBER 09, 2025 6:00 AM |
Magnitude-7.0 Earthquake Hit Remote Area Along Alaska-Canada Border
A powerful, magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck in a remote area near the border between Alaska and the Canadian territory of Yukon on Saturday. There was no tsunami warning, and officials said there were no immediate reports of damage or injury. The …
POSTED DECEMBER 08, 2025 9:18 PM |
San Diego Considers $30M Settlement in Shooting Death of Black Teen
The San Diego city attorney’s office has agreed to pay $30 million to the family of a 16-year-old youth who was fatally shot by police last January in what would be one of the largest settlements of a police-involved killing …
POSTED DECEMBER 08, 2025 3:21 PM |
Atmospheric River to Flood Pacific Northwest Through Week
A massive Pacific storm called an atmospheric river will sweep off the ocean into the Pacific Northwest starting Monday, bringing heavy rain and a week of floods, swollen rivers and even heavy snow across the region, including Seattle and Portland. …
POSTED DECEMBER 08, 2025 3:17 PM |
Honolulu Settling Lawsuit Over Shooting of Micronesian Teen for $1M
Honolulu’s city council authorized $1 million to settle a lawsuit by the family of a 16-year-old boy who was shot and killed by police. The fatal shooting of Iremamber Sykap in 2021 came amid a national reckoning over police use …
POSTED DECEMBER 08, 2025 6:00 AM |
California Resources Reports Oil Fluid Spill in Monterey County
A pipeline owned by California Resources Corporation subsidiary Aera Energy spilled 96 barrels of produced fluid — a mixture of oil and water — early Friday morning at an oil field in Monterey County in California’s Central Coast. The spill …
POSTED DECEMBER 05, 2025 9:41 PM |
People Moves: Affordable American Insurance Hires Haskett as Sales VP
Affordable American Insurance Inc. naned Ross Haskett vice president of sales. Haskett has a decade of experience in insurance-industry lending and agency financing, including senior leadership roles at Westfield Bank and Live Oak Banking Company. His background includes positions ranging …
POSTED DECEMBER 05, 2025 6:00 AM |
Arizona Study Group Issues Report on Homeowners Insurance and Wildfire Risk
A report from a regulator-created group found that a multifaceted approach to addressing wildfires and lack of insurance affordability in Arizona should be tackled with a multifaceted approach that includes homeowners, communities and the state working in tandem to implement …
POSTED DECEMBER 05, 2025 6:00 AM |
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