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22 08, 2025

New Jersey Compensation Bureau Back Online After Cyber Incident

By | August 22nd, 2025|Uncategorized|Comments Off on New Jersey Compensation Bureau Back Online After Cyber Incident

The New Jersey Compensation Rating & Inspection Bureau is mostly back online following a cybersecurity event that caused it to shut down its network more than two weeks ago. The workers’ compensation agency said it “experienced suspicious activity” on August …

22 08, 2025

People Moves: Aon Commercial Risk Promotes Smaje as Specialty Leader, Transportation & Logistics; MGA Optio Names Deloitte’s Hallett Head of Insurer Partnerships

By | August 22nd, 2025|Uncategorized|Comments Off on People Moves: Aon Commercial Risk Promotes Smaje as Specialty Leader, Transportation & Logistics; MGA Optio Names Deloitte’s Hallett Head of Insurer Partnerships

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at the broker Aon and the MGA Optio Group. A summary of these new hires follows here. Aon’s Commercial Risk Business Promotes Smaje to Lead Transportation & Logistics Insurance broker Aon plc …

22 08, 2025

Rural California Wine Country Fire Burning Out of Control

By | August 22nd, 2025|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Rural California Wine Country Fire Burning Out of Control

Firefighters will battle intense heat and dry weather Friday as they work to control a fast-moving blaze in the heart of California’s wine country. The Pickett Fire exploded in the hills above the tourist town of Calistoga in the Napa …

22 08, 2025

Be Recognized as a Best Agency to Work For: Submit Now

By | August 22nd, 2025|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Be Recognized as a Best Agency to Work For: Submit Now

Is your agency a great place to work? Would you call your agency a “Best Place to Work?” Then it’s time to nominate your agency for Insurance Journal’s “Best Agency to Work For” award. To nominate your agency, you must …

22 08, 2025

AM Best Revises Outlooks to Stable for Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Group

By | August 22nd, 2025|Uncategorized|Comments Off on AM Best Revises Outlooks to Stable for Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Group

AM Best has revised the outlooks to stable from negative and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) of “a” (Excellent) of Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company, Colorado Farm …

22 08, 2025

Bank of America Says Autonomous Vehicles Can Boost Insurers’ Profitability

By | August 22nd, 2025|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Bank of America Says Autonomous Vehicles Can Boost Insurers’ Profitability

The shift to autonomous vehicles represents a great unknown for the auto insurance industry, but to analysts at Bank of America Corp. it will be a potential goldmine. Investors are concerned about liability when driverless cars become more mainstream. Under …

22 08, 2025

People Moves: Montoya Joins Liberty Naranjo as VP, Producer; Alliant Human Capital Names Chalmers SVP

By | August 22nd, 2025|Uncategorized|Comments Off on People Moves: Montoya Joins Liberty Naranjo as VP, Producer; Alliant Human Capital Names Chalmers SVP

Montoya Joins Liberty Naranjo as VP, Producer The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers (Liberty), headquartered in Gainesville, Florida, named Brittany Montoya vice president and producer at Liberty Naranjo, Liberty’s high-growth Northern California office led by Managing Partners Jonathan Naranjo and Michael …

22 08, 2025

Baltimore Shipping Channel Reopened After Explosion on Ship Near 2024 Bridge Collapse

By | August 22nd, 2025|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Baltimore Shipping Channel Reopened After Explosion on Ship Near 2024 Bridge Collapse

Investigators on Tuesday were trying to determine what caused an explosion aboard a cargo ship laden with coal as it departed Baltimore’s harbor for East Africa. Officials said no one was injured in the blast Monday evening, which prompted a …

22 08, 2025

Hundreds May Have Been Exposed to Rabies in Grand Teton National Park Cabins

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Health officials are working to alert hundreds of people in dozens of states and several countries who may have been exposed to rabies in bat-infested cabins in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park over the past few months. As of Friday, …

22 08, 2025

How Hurricanes, Fires and Floods Put Drugs and Medical Supplies at Risk

By | August 22nd, 2025|Uncategorized|Comments Off on How Hurricanes, Fires and Floods Put Drugs and Medical Supplies at Risk

When Hurricane Helene barreled across several southern states last fall, it destroyed homes and killed more than 150 people. The storm also took out one of the country’s main factories producing intravenous fluid bags widely used in hospitals. The ensuing …