Private equity firm Cinven and GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, have agreed to acquire London-based specialist insurance and (re)insurance broker Miller from its partners and corporate member, Willis Towers Watson. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction …
Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos won’t have to go to trial in a defamation lawsuit his girlfriend’s brother brought against him over nude photos of Bezos leaked to the National Enquirer. A California state judge, who had issued a tentative …
Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. (Citizens), the state’s insurer of last resort, will take only a $35 million financial hit from the 2020 hurricane season because of its reinsurance program, according to the Louisiana Department of Insurance. The LDI reported …
As of Nov. 2, 2020, more than 200,000 claims arising from the Aug. 10 derecho windstorm have been reported in Iowa, insurance regulators say. Of those, nearly 160,000 claims totaling more than $1.6 billion have been paid already. Insurance companies …
BRP Group Inc. subsidiary, Baldwin Krystyn Sherman Partners LLC (BKS Partners), has entered into an agreement to acquire all of the outstanding equity interests of Insgroup Inc. a Houston, Texas-based provider of commercial property/casualty insurance, employee benefits, private risk services …
A St. Louis couple facing felony charges for waving guns at racial injustice protesters who marched near their home allege in a lawsuit that a news photographer trespassed to capture an image of the confrontation. Mark and Patricia McCloskey, lawyers …
In the state that is home to Silicon Valley and serves as the headquarters for Google, Facebook and other tech titans, voters strengthened data privacy protections by approving a ballot measure that supporters tout as a model for other states. …
A Kansas man accused of performing illegal autopsies duped at least 82 consumers, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said. The state now has control of more than 1,600 biological samples collected by Shawn Parcells of Leawood, Kansas, Schmidt’s office said …
The governing council in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has again rejected a proposed $5 million settlement in a lawsuit over the death of Alton Sterling, a Black man fatally shot by a white police officer in 2016. Baton Rouge news outlets …
Wisconsin health officials have finished drafting new groundwater standards for more than 20 substances, including a dozen types of PFAS chemicals. The Department of Natural Resources asked the Department of Health Services in April 2019 to begin researching the health …