Gallagher Taps Hughes From EY as Tax Specialist in Private Equity and M&A Practice Gallagher announced the UK appointment of specialist corporate M&A tax adviser Tom Hughes as director of Tax Insurance to its EMEA-wide Private Equity and M&A (PEMA) …

The European Union’s ESG framework — a shadow of its former self after a year of deep cuts — is drawing renewed threats from the US. At issue is the so-called extraterritoriality of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and the …

A freight lift rose up on its crane Tuesday toward the Louvre Museum — but this time it wasn’t jewel thieves. It was workers installing security bars on the window used to break into the Paris landmark’s Apollo Gallery in …

Reports that Howden US, part of the London-based insurance brokerage, had lured away more than 200 employees from Brown & Brown Insurance have left industry leaders worried that poaching seems to be the new business model for some companies. And …

A powerful winter storm is lashing Southern California, prompting California Governor Gavin Newsom to proclaim a state of emergency in Los Angeles and neighboring counties. Coastal communities are bracing for multiple months’ worth of rain in just a few days, …

As the effects of a hotter planet rack up more damages and health issues for people in exposed regions, the conversation around climate change is shifting from how to curb it to how to adapt to it. A new report …

A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a challenge by the largest U.S. business lobby group to President Donald Trump’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers, saying it fell under his broad powers to regulate immigration. …

Brown University’s president on Monday placed its campus police chief on leave as the Rhode Island university reviews its security policies after a gunman killed two students and injured nine others earlier this month. Questions surrounding Brown’s security policies have …

Missouri’s top prosecutor said China is suing after the state pressed federal officials for help collecting on a roughly $25 billion court judgment related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Attorney General Catherine Hanaway said in a news release that China is …

A 27-year-old crude tanker that was supposedly scrapped in 2021 is due to reach Venezuela late this week, according to ship-tracking data, in the latest example of how the South American country keeps its embattled oil industry alive. The tanker …

Areawide Insurance Advisors has joined Leavitt Group Texas Select, strengthening the agency’s presence in the Bryan and College Station area with the added resources of Leavitt Group, a national brokerage. Mike Kilgore, owner of Areawide Insurance Advisors, will continue to …

One morning in mid-November, Mario Guerrero, the executive director of the South Texas Builders Association, was checking a group chat when a video of federal agents detaining people from a construction site popped up. He watched the video of Immigration …

An explosion at a Pennsylvania nursing home that caused the building to collapse and took the lives of two people and injured about 20 others is under investigation. The explosion occurred at Bristol Health & Rehab Center in Bristol Township …

A small Mexican Navy plane transporting a young medical patient and seven others crashed Monday near Galveston, killing at least five people and setting off a search in waters along the Texas coast, officials said. Four of the people aboard …

U.S. Steel, a multinational steel and iron mining company, violated federal law when it failed to provide an employee with a reasonable accommodation for her pregnancy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit. According to the …

Georgia’s only private electric utility plans to increase power capacity by 50% after state regulators on Friday agreed 5-0 that the plan is needed to meet projected demand from data centers. It would be one of the biggest build-outs in …

Massachusetts regulatory officials have approved a plan of reorganizations and mergers for two domestic mutual insurers, Merrimack Mutual Fire Insurance Co. and Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Co. The plan calls for a reorganization of each mutual as a domestic stock …

The Great Bay Insurance Group, headquartered in West Atlantic City, New Jersey, named Brian S. Schleider executive vice president and chief financial officer. Schleider joined the group in March 2020 as chief financial officer. He has 35 years of industry …

You’re just about as likely to find a commercial P/C underwriter or actuary who is unconcerned about the increased use of AI in insurance as you are to find one that’s afraid of being replaced by AI. That’s what a …

Schools are facing a growing problem of students using artificial intelligence to transform innocent images of classmates into sexually explicit deepfakes. The fallout from the spread of the manipulated photos and videos can create a nightmare for the victims. The …