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 …

Three lawmakers who represent Piedmont, South Dakota, hope to change weak state mining laws that allowed a proposed limestone mine to be sited without notification or input by any local officials or residents. The plan by Simon Contractors to begin …

RiverStone International Appoints Pritchard as UK CEO RiverStone International Holdings, the legacy acquisition company, announced the appointment of Charlotte Pritchard as UK CEO, effective January 5, subject to regulatory approval. Pritchard succeeds Andrew Creed who will become group president (also …

Acrisure co-founder CEO Greg Williams is giving back to his alma mater in a major way. Michigan State University announced Williams and his wife are committing $401 million to the university, with most of the donation going towards the school’s …

Specialty MGA Nirvana Acquires Arena From Ryan Specialty Specialty managing general agent (MGA) Nirvana announced the acquisition of Arena NV from Ryan Specialty. Financial terms of the deal, which was announced today, were not disclosed. Arena is a leader in …

Marsh this week announced it has hired Tom Srail its cyber analytics and digital infrastructure leader for the U.S. and Canada. Srail had spend the last 21 years with WTW, mostly recently as executive vice president of its global cyber …

Private equity firms EQT AB, PAI Partners and Stone Point have been shortlisted in the bidding for German insurance brokerage Global Group, people familiar with the matter said. Global Group, which is backed by buyout firm Castik Capital, could fetch …

A U.S. agency said on Thursday it has asked Waymo to answer more questions after Texas officials said the Alphabet GOOGL.O unit’s self-driving vehicles had illegally passed school buses 19 times in recorded incidents since the start of the school …

The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI on Friday, claiming that the artificial intelligence startup was copying, distributing and displaying millions of its articles without permission. The startup has become a target of multiple legal disputes and …

AM Best has revised the outlook to negative from stable for the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (ICR) and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of B++ (Good) and the Long-Term ICR of “bbb+” (Good) of Nazareth Mutual Insurance Co., based …

Swiss Re shares dropped 7.5% on Friday after the world’s second-largest reinsurer announced a new profit target that fell short of market expectations. The Zurich-based company said it was aiming for group net income of $4.5 billion next year, up …

Standard Chartered Plc has settled an investor lawsuit worth £1.5 billion ($2 billion) over allegations it systematically breached sanctions against Iran to win new business. In a London Court of Appeal ruling over disclosure published on Friday, the judge acknowledged …

China routinely sends astronauts to and from its space station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station and return to Earth, but there’s nothing routine about its journey home. The Shenzhou-20 capsule will carry no crew, …

Cloudflare Inc. said it has fixed a problem that led to the websites for several banks, Shopify, Zoom and LinkedIn to go down Friday. “A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results,” the San Francisco-based company said …

A working paper from three well-known economists shows the impacts of global warming and particularly extreme weather on the budgets of American households is up to $900 per year. The paper was authored by former Treasury Department officials Kimberley Clausing, …

Both of the apartment building fires that displaced 70 families in Holyoke this week appear to be accidental but the exact causes remain under investigation, according to city and state fire officials. Holyoke Fire Chief John Kadlewicz and State Fire …

Bold Penguin announced a partnership with Adaptive Insurance, expanding coverage options available through the Bold Penguin Placement Desk. Adaptive is pioneering the path to resilience in the face of emerging climate risks, starting with their GridProtect parametric power outage coverage. …

The cyber insurance market is reaching an inflection point where underwriting companies must differentiate healthcare from other industries in how the risk is evaluated, priced, and how claims are managed. Healthcare cyber claims data tells a consistent and troubling story: …

Nearly all leading artificial intelligence developers are focused on building AI models that mimic the way humans reason, but new research shows these cutting-edge systems can be far more energy intensive, adding to concerns about AI’s strain on power grids. …

The message from the Florida Chamber of Commerce Insurance Summit was loud and clear: Don’t mess with legislative changes that have all but restored the state’s property insurance market. And while you’re at it, don’t repeal Florida’s personal injury protection …