The owner of seven Louisiana nursing homes who sent more than 800 of his elderly residents to a crowded, ill-equipped warehouse to ride out Hurricane Ida last year was arrested Wednesday on fraud and cruelty charges arising from the squalid …
Crews recovered the body of a man who was buried under piles of grain and debris from a collapsed grain silo in southeastern Iowa on Wednesday. The collapse happened just before 8 a.m. Tuesday at a grain elevator at Yarmouth, …
A report from the Insurance Information Institute confirms what many Florida homeowners have suspected: Their insurance premiums are some of the highest in the nation. The annual cost of a Florida homeowners policy this year will jump to $4,231 – …
China’s manufacturing hub of Guangdong raised its flood warning to the highest level due to the worst rains in decades, spurring more evacuations and threatening further supply chain disruptions in an economy reeling from Covid-related lockdowns. Guangdong province raised its …
Citizens Property Insurance Corp. could spend $100 million this year on attorneys who defend claims litigation against the insurer, a significant increase from previous years. The Miami Herald reported that the insurer of last resort’s claims committee met Thursday and …
New York’s financial services regulator has fined Carnival Corp. $5 million for violations of the state’s cybersecurity regulations that the state says caused four cyber breaches and the exposure of personal data belonging to its customers, including New York consumers. …
Lawmakers have dropped language aimed at making banking services easier for state-authorized marijuana businesses from a bill on US innovation and China competitiveness. The broad House-passed legislation included the SAFE Banking Act, which would prohibit federal banking regulators from penalizing …
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. agreed to pay $105 million to settle a long-running class-action lawsuit accusing it of misleading shareholders about how rising generic drug prices and reimbursement pressures would hurt its pharmacy business. The preliminary all-cash settlement was filed …
Acrisure, a fintech company that runs a global insurance broker, announced that it has acquired Columbus, Ohio-based QuickInsured, a tech-centered insurance agency. Acrisure will now have use of QuickInsured’s proprietary digital “sales funnel,” which customizes insurance offerings for customers, and …
McGriff Insurance Services, a retail insurance broker based in Huntsville, Alabama, has named Bud Curtis vice president and alternative risk business development manager. McGriff, a subsidiary of Truist Insurance Holdings, the sixth largest insurance broker in the U.S., said in …