Glastonbury, Connecticut-based Smith Brothers Insurance LLC announced that it acquired Charter Oak Agency effective July 1, 2025. Charter Oak Agency, an independent insurance agency with offices in Westport and Derby, Connecticut, will retain these locations, further strengthening Smith Brothers footprint …

Cindy Manley was a summer camp counselor in 1987 when a different devastating flood scarred the Texas Hill Country. The Heart O’ the Hills camp is on the Guadalupe River, where a massive search continues for more than 160 people …

Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers filed a lawsuit this week alleging General Motors and its telematics service provider OnStar collected driving data without consumers’ knowledge or consent to create driving scores that were later sold to insurance companies and used …

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced a $4.5 million settlement with six Detroit-area nursing homes and their ownership companies, Villa Financial Services LLC and Villa Olympia Investment LLC, over allegations that they accepted taxpayer funds while providing grossly substandard care …

Global claims services provider McLarens has appointed Danny Miller as Chief Global Strategy Officer (CGSO), a newly created role within the firm’s Global Management Team (GMT). This strategic addition to the leadership team reflects McLarens’ continued growth and commitment to …

Though natural disasters cycle across seasons and regions in the U.S., it’s often a shocking discovery for property owners how expansive and expensive flood and water damage can be when a major storm devastates their homes, businesses and communities. That’s …

A Honduras woman this week was sentenced to less than two years in federal prison for her role in paying Florida construction workers off the books and avoiding $1.2 million in workers’ compensation premiums and almost $2 million in federal …

The US slapped sanctions on individuals and companies linked to a scheme that involves recruiting North Koreans to pose as American tech workers and help fund Kim Jong Un’s regime. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed penalties …

Copyright protections don’t just help individuals, they hold up a good part of the U.S. economy, according to a report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s 2023 report highlights industries like architecture, software, music, publishing, …

Six firefighters suffered minor injuries in a blaze Thursday that partially collapsed a three-story building in a New Jersey neighborhood, authorities said. The fire in Jersey City, which started at about 1:30 a.m., also spread to nearby buildings, displacing some …

Property/casualty insurers have started to broadcast the fact that they have earned spots on Ward’s list of 50 top-performing insurance companies for 2025, but only one was named for 35 straight years—RLI Corp. In addition, there were three newcomers to …

All 31 construction workers who were far inside a huge industrial tunnel in Los Angeles made it to safety after a portion of it collapsed Wednesday evening, an outcome officials called a blessing after they initially feared much worse. The …

Descartes Insurance, the Paris-based risk-carrying subsidiary of parametric-insurer Descartes, has expanded its offering to corporate clients and public institutions to include credit and political risk insurance (CPRI). To support its expansion into this new class of business, Descartes has hired …

A Maryland husband and wife have been sentenced to 12 years in prison and four years in prison, respectively, after their convictions for a $20 million scheme to commit insurance fraud. In addition to their prison sentences, a judge for …

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at QBE Re and Liberty Global Transaction Solutions. A summary of these new hires follows here. QBE Re Names Senior Leaders Across Markets, Product Areas as Part of Restructuring QBE Re has …

Augmented UW Ltd., the AI-driven managing general agent, has launched in London to serve the smart-follow insurance market. The MGA was founded by Chief Executive Officer Daniel Prince, a leading executive in the London insurance market, who was formerly CEO …

Extreme weather events such as heatwaves, flooding and wildfires could wipe as much off euro zone GDP in the next five years as the global financial crisis or the COVID-19 pandemic, a senior European Central Bank official said on Wednesday. …

The five U.S. cities with the riskiest drivers are all located in the Northeast, according to Allstate’s 2025 America’s Best Drivers Report. The insurer listed Boston as the city where drivers were most likely to experience a collision, followed by …

Over the last decade, an array of Texas state and local agencies missed opportunities to fund a flood warning system intended to avert a disaster like the one that killed dozens of young campers and scores of others in Kerr …

Low water levels following a drought and heatwave in western Europe continue to hinder shipping through the Rhine river in Germany, commodity traders said on Wednesday, with rain in past days generating only a moderate rise in water levels. Low …