Alliant Insurance Services, headquartered in Irvine, California, hired Tim Simokonis as senior vice president within its Employee Benefits Group in the Southeast. The Florida-based consultant will serve a national client base, focusing on self-funded health plans, data transparency, and fiduciary …

President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday unveiled a plan for a dramatic expansion of oil and gas drilling rights auctions in U.S. waters, including in California, where state officials strongly oppose energy development along its world-famous coastline. The Interior Department …

The death toll in Vietnam from days of severe flooding has climbed to 43 as heavy rain drenches coffee-producing regions in the central highlands and waters remain high in some tourism areas. Around 61,000 people have been evacuated and half …

Across Canada, doctors and nurses are quietly using public artificial-intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and Gemini to write clinical notes, translate discharge summaries or summarize patient data. But even though these services offer speed and convenience, they also …

American International Group Inc.’s announcement last week that it was parting ways with incoming President John Neal stunned insurance industry observers and raised questions about what caused the veteran executive to lose a $17 million job before he’d even started. …

Written words have an intended meaning. Fair-minded readers try to grasp that meaning. But other readers impute motives to the writer either to serve their own ends or to protect the writer from unforeseen consequences. Once, early in my career, …

Ohio utility regulators ordered Akron-based FirstEnergy on Wednesday to pay more than $250 million in fines and refunds as a result of its misconduct in a sweeping Statehouse bribery scandal whose fallout continues five years on. The punishment meted out …

Rising costs and changing customer expectations are driving satisfaction in the insurance and mortgage industry, according to an American Customer Satisfaction Index study. Among the four industries studied — health insurance, life insurance, property and casualty insurance (P/C), and mortgage …

A federal judge has denied a temporary restraining order against seven former employees of Marsh sued in one of several lawsuits against defectors to join Howden US. Marsh USA early this month filed a lawsuit against the group of former …

The EU is launching a service to measure the role climate change is playing in extreme weather events like heatwaves and extreme rain, and experts say this could help governments set climate policy, improve financial risk assessments and provide evidence …

Rank-and-file US Securities and Exchange Commission workers have returned to face the paperwork that piled up during the longest government shutdown in US history, and supervisors say the order of the day is “triage.” Deal first with the tasks still …

For years, I’ve warned that Florida’s legal climate was out of control — driven not by consumers or local businesses, but by a handful of billboard trial lawyers who made fortunes exploiting loopholes in our laws. Their tactics fueled one …

A race is on among energy companies to build a major fuel pipeline to the U.S. West Coast, a potentially lucrative prize as the planned closure of two California refineries threatens to send gasoline prices in the isolated market soaring. …

A jury has ordered the Massachusetts State Police to pay $6.8 million after a finding that it discriminated against female and minority troopers. The verdict confirmed Tuesday by a Suffolk Superior Court clerk came in a lawsuit accusing the agency’s …

XPT Specialty, headquartered in New Haven, Connecticut, appointed Chris Ornce as a senior vice president in its workers’ compensation division. With over 15 years in the industry, Ornce has a reputation for building and growing agency distribution channels. Most recently, …

The Hartford Chairman and CEO Christopher Swift has convened a group of corporate and community leaders in greater Hartford to develop a unifying vision for the city. According to the announcement from the namesake insurer based in the city, the …

World Insurance Associates announced that it acquired the business of Van Syckel Insurance of Bound Brook, New Jersey on August 1, 2025. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Van Syckel Insurance, which was started in 1865, is managed by …

Skyward Specialty Insurance Group Inc., headquartered in Houston, Texas, promoted John Burkhart to president, U.S. property & casualty, Skyward Specialty Insurance. In this expanded role, Burkhart will assume oversight of the Company’s captives & specialty programs divisions in addition to …

Encova Insurance, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, named Corey Palumbo to their board of directors. Palumbo is an attorney with Bowles Rice in Charleston, West Virginia, where his primary practice areas include energy litigation, deliberate intent and general civil litigation. Palumbo …

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. submitted a rate filing to reduce personal auto insurance rates by 6.2%. The filing has a targeted effective date of Feb. 23, 2026, and is pending approval from the California Department of Insurance. State …