A new Pennsylvania law intended to crack down on AI-powered fraud and financial crimes makes it a felony to use artificial intelligence to produce non-consensual “forged digital likenesses” like deepfakes or voice clones to injure, financially exploit, or scam people. …

A former Alabama police officer charged with murder for shooting an armed Black man in the man’s front yard during a dispute with a tow-truck driver shouldn’t be granted immunity before going to trial, the state’s attorney general says. In …

Construction mogul Jay Cashman says Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s bike lane overhaul is such a disaster that he’s willing to spend as much as $1 million to force the city to redo them. Wu, who is seeking reelection this year, …

Global insurance and benefits broker NFP announced its acquisition of Levine Group, LLC, a financial services firm based in Brentwood, Tennessee. Levine Group has been serving Nashville and the surrounding area since 1963. The firm offers investment management, retirement plan …

Two people in New Jersey were killed after their vehicle was swept up in floodwaters during a storm that moved across the U.S. Northeast overnight, authorities said Tuesday. Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, noted the deaths occurred in the northern …

Worker safety regulators in Washington are warning businesses that temperatures and wildfire smoke are making for hazardous conditions for outdoor workers. The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries issued a notice to employers and workers about which weather conditions …

Under a new state law, Louisiana insurers will be required to give mandatory disclosure of prior policy premium when issuing a renewal policy to a policyholder. Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple sent an advisory letter to insurers this week notifying …

The best way to tell that the California homeowners insurance market has been a bear is to see where buyers facing higher rates and lack of options in traditional markets are going for alternatives. One choice is the surplus lines …

State Farm is implementing a significant rate hike for Illinois homeowners, citing more frequent severe weather events and rising home replacement costs that are driving up the cost and frequency of claims. The rate hike has drawn the ire of …

Diageo on Monday filed an initial response to a lawsuit accusing the spirits giant of misleading U.S. consumers about the purity of some of its popular tequila brands, calling the claim “baseless.” The company, which also owns whisky brands such …

The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves announced today that the UK will introduce a captive insurance company regime – a decision that was welcomed by brokers and trade associations across the London market. The government aims to deliver …

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at brokers BMS and Willis. A summary of these new hires follows here. BMS Appoints Wilson as Director in Canadian Retail Division BMS, the independent insurance and reinsurance broker, announced the appointment …

More than 7.3 million vehicles were recalled between April and June, according to according to BizzyCar’s Q2 2025 Recall Report. The AI-driven, automated Service Recall Management Platform for auto dealers indicates the sharp rise in U.S. vehicle recalls marks the …

Eight months after voters approved it, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed the repeal of a law Thursday that had guaranteed paid sick leave to workers and inflationary adjustments to the minimum wage. The move marked a major victory for the …

Nexus Underwriting, the London-based managing general agent, is investigating a “wholly inappropriate and offensive ” email sent by CEO Stuart Rouse. “We are aware of an internal email that has been shared externally and contains language and references that are …

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing waters swept away children and counselors, a …

Much of the Upper Midwest on Saturday was dealing with swaths of unhealthy air because of drifting smoke from Canadian wildfires, covering the northern region of the U.S. at a time when people want to be enjoying lakes, trails and …

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Friday it had opened a recall query covering 27,816 of Sweden-based EV maker Polestar’s Polestar 2 vehicles over a loss of rear-view camera image. A recall query is an investigation opened …

The Japan branch of Germany-based corporate & specialty insurer HDI Global SE, part of Talanx AG, has received regulatory authorization in Japan to offer parametric earthquake insurance. HDI Global collaborated with Paris-based Descartes Underwriting SA, a leader in corporate parametric …

A wildfire raging along the Grand Canyon’s North Rim that leveled a historic lodge erupted over the weekend after burning for more than a week, raising scrutiny over the National Park Service’s decision not to aggressively attack the fire right …