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6 06, 2025

Extended Deadline: Be Recognized as an Independent Agency Leader

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Need a bit more time to enter? Good news – the extended deadline to submit for Insurance Journal’s Top 100 Agencies and Top Agency Partnerships ranking is now June 10! We hope that you will consider entering your firm for …

6 06, 2025

Minnesota Culver’s Franchise Settles Harassment Case for $261K

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R & G Endeavors, Inc., a fast-food franchisee doing business as Culver’s Restaurants of Cottage Grove, will pay $261,000 and furnish other relief to settle two cases brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), one involving race, sex …

6 06, 2025

Storm Damage Costs Are Often a Mystery. That’s a Problem for Understanding Risk

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On Jan. 5, 2025, at about 2:35 in the afternoon, the first severe hailstorm of the season dropped quarter-size hail in Chatham, Mississippi. According to the federal storm events database, there were no injuries, but it caused $10,000 in property …

6 06, 2025

Mattel Settles Baby Sleeper Death Suits Before Start of a Trial

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Mattel Inc. and its Fisher-Price unit have settled lawsuits alleging their recalled Rock ‘n Play baby sleeper was so defectively designed that it led to the deaths of infants. The agreement, disclosed in a Delaware court filing last week, resolves …

6 06, 2025

Scientists Take on Severe Storms to Study Hail, Costliest Weather Danger

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As severe storms once again soak, twist and pelt the nation’s midsection, a team of dozens of scientists is driving into them to study one of the nation’s costliest but least-appreciated weather dangers: Hail. Hail rarely kills, but it hammers …

6 06, 2025

Texas Lawmakers Reined in Recreational THC for More Medical Marijuana

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Texas lawmakers this year heavily focused their drug policy agenda on banning tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, products in the state. Senate Bill 3, which prohibits the possession of consumable hemp products that contain any synthetic cannabinoid, often known as delta-8, was …

6 06, 2025

Homeowners Suing AAA Insurers and USAA over LA Wildfires

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A group of homeowners who lost their homes in the Los Angeles wildfires filed lawsuits against three large insurers over claims payouts they say didn’t cover their losses. The lawsuits were filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court this week. …

6 06, 2025

Hub International Acquires Wycoff Insurance Agency in Washington

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Hub International Ltd. acquired the assets of Wycoff Insurance Agency Inc. in Mount Vernon, Washington. Wycoff Insurance will be referred to as Wycoff Insurance Agency, a Hub International company. Chris Eisses, president, Donnie Keltz, vice president, secretary and treasurer, and …

5 06, 2025

OpenAI Finds More Chinese Groups Using ChatGPT for Malicious Purposes

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OpenAI is seeing an increasing number of Chinese groups using its artificial intelligence technology for covert operations, which the ChatGPT maker described in a report released Thursday. While the scope and tactics employed by these groups have expanded, the operations …

5 06, 2025

Longtime Alabama Insurance Agent Announces Run for Governor

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Longtime Alabama insurance agent and former congressional candidate Ken McFeeters announced he is running for governor of Alabama next year, casting himself as a political outsider and accusing his opponent U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville of being a “part of the …