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6 10, 2022

People Moves: Falcon 4 Key Senior Hires; New Chief HR Officer at Hippo

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Falcon Expands Leadership Team with Key Senior Hires Falcon Risk Holdings LLC (Falcon), the US Financial, Professional and Cyber lines MGA, has announced four senior appointments to its team. Bryan Harmsen joins the team as chief operating officer. Harmsen previously …

6 10, 2022

Texas Mutual CEO Rich Gergasko to Retire in 2023

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Texas Mutual, the state’s leading provider of workers’ compensation insurance, today announced that the company’s President & Chief Executive Officer, Richard “Rich” Gergasko, has shared with the Board of Directors his intention to retire in early 2023. Gergasko joined Texas …

6 10, 2022

Revival Sought for Outspoken Louisiana Pastor’s Lawsuit Over COVID Restrictions

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An outspoken Christian conservative attorney from Alabama has asked a federal appeals court to revive a Louisiana pastor’s damage claims against state officials over long-expired COVID-19 restrictions. A federal judge this year dismissed minister Tony Spell’s lawsuit against Gov. John …

6 10, 2022

Woman Gets Probation for Massive Capital One Hack in 2019

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A former Seattle tech worker convicted of several charges related to a massive hack of Capital One bank and other companies in 2019 was sentenced Tuesday to time served and five years of probation. U.S. District Judge Robert S. Lasnik …

6 10, 2022

Nebraska Sandhills Wildfire More Than Half Contained

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A destructive Nebraska Sandhills wildfire that saw one firefighter die while fighting the flames was more than half contained by Wednesday, officials said. The size of the Bovee Fire in west-central Nebraska was mapped Tuesday at nearly 19,000 acres, or …

6 10, 2022

Man Charged With Damaging Historic Missouri Home of Composer Scott Joplin

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A man was charged Tuesday with breaking into the historic home of ragtime composer Scott Joplin and causing tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of damage. Thirty-eight-year-old Kevin Daley-Bey faces one count each of second-degree burglary and first-degree property damage. …

7 10, 2022

Comp Insurer Antum Risk to Study Hospital Violence in South Carolina

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The South Carolina Hospital Association plans to use data to address the growing issue of workplace violence, an effort that could ultimately affect workers’ compensation claim frequency and severity. The association announced it has hired South Carolina-based Antum Risk, a …

7 10, 2022

Florida Citrus Industry Squeezed by Hurricane Ian; Crop Insurance to Cover Some Losses

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The waters have receded, but the stink lingers. As Emma Reynolds Ezell surveys the damage that a night of 100 mile-per-hour winds wrought on her orange groves, she just can’t get over the stench. It’s nothing like the usual sweet …

7 10, 2022

Munich Re Commits to Stricter Policies for Oil & Gas Underwriting, Investments

By | October 7th, 2022|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Munich Re Commits to Stricter Policies for Oil & Gas Underwriting, Investments

Munich Re, the world’s largest reinsurer, on Thursday announced stricter policies for investing in and underwriting oil and gas projects, drawing praise from environmental activists. The German reinsurer said on its website that as of April 2023 it would not …

30 09, 2022

Florida Ian Losses Could Reach $47B, Sinking More Insurers, CoreLogic Calculates

By | September 30th, 2022|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Florida Ian Losses Could Reach $47B, Sinking More Insurers, CoreLogic Calculates

Wind and storm-surge losses from Hurricane Ian could reach as $47 billion in Florida alone, a figure made larger by inflation and rising interest rates, the property analytics firm CoreLogic said in a new analysis. “This is the costliest Florida …