Beecher Carlson Insurance Services LLC, a specialized large account insurance broker, has appointed Joe Ehrlich as Beecher Carlson’s National Practice Leader for Private Equity, Family Office, and M&A. Ehrlich will report to Chief Operating Officer Bill Daly and will work …
A large fire that started in an apartment building under construction spread to several other buildings late Sunday in a downtown district, but no injuries were reported. The fire in Bound Brook, N.J., broke out around 8 p.m. Sunday at …
A Harvard University professor known as an expert in intellectual property is suing the New York Times for its publication of a “sensationalized, false and defamatory ‘clickbait’ Internet headline and lede” about him during the Jeffrey Epstein human trafficking scandal. …
A nonprofit flood risk research organization is offering the first publicly available flood risk model that predicts the probability of flooding for homes and properties across the United States. Brooklyn, N.Y.-based First Street Foundation has launched Flood Lab, a research …
Bushfires ravaging Australia have provided a foretaste of the kinds of conditions that could become normal unless the world moves rapidly to curb emissions of the greenhouse gases driving global warming, scientists have warned. Although Australia’s government and parts of …
POWERS Insurance & Risk Management in St. Louis, Missouri, has hired Amy Russell as a commercial lines account manager. Russell has more than 20 years of experience in the insurance and marketing industries. In this position, Russell will be responsible …
Brit Ltd. has named Douglas Ruhlman as assistant vice president, Cyber, for Brit Global Specialty USA. Ruhlman will work to support the underwriting and growth of Brit’s U.S. cyber portfolio. He will report to Jeff Norton, senior vice president, Cyber …
A wholesale distributor based in Jefferson Parish, La., has agreed to pay $140,000 and provide other significant relief to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in its suit that Imperial Trading Company …
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a dispute that has roiled the $3.8 trillion U.S. municipal bond market over payments on special revenue bonds that grew out of Puerto Rico’s ongoing bankruptcy. The justices left in …
National insurance brokerage and risk management firm, Risk Strategies, has acquired Academic HealthPlans Inc. (AHP), a Grapevine, Texas-based provider of health insurance plans that colleges and universities make available to their students. Terms of the deal were not made public. …