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22 07, 2026

Mark Walter’s Insurers, Guggenheim Probed by Prosecutors

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The billionaire Los Angeles Dodgers owner Mark Walter’s sprawling investment empire is facing scrutiny from U.S. prosecutors, who have been investigating potential financial improprieties at two of his insurance companies and at Guggenheim Partners LLC, according to people with knowledge …

22 07, 2026

Chicken Back on Menu as Cyber-Hit Nichirei Restores Operations in Japan

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Tokyo-based food producer and distributor Nichirei Corp. says it will fully resume operations this week after a cyber attack disrupted its food delivery services, affecting clients nationwide including Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan. Shipments of frozen food handled by Nichirei’s logistics …

22 07, 2026

Insurers Must Defend Hotels Accused of Sex Trafficking Minors: Pennsylvania High Court

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Insurance companies cannot invoke “overriding public policy” in order to refuse to defend insured hotel owners and managers accused of enabling and profiting off of sex trafficking of minors, even though the state has criminalized such trafficking. “[N]either an insurer’s …

22 07, 2026

Luxury Homes Are Raising Risks for California’s Insurer of Last Resort

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As California’s wildfire insurance crisis drives homeowners to the state’s insurer of last resort, wealthy areas such as Beverly Hills, Malibu and Bel Air make up an increasingly large portion of the liability exposure — a dynamic that experts fear …

22 07, 2026

Luxury Homes Are Raising Risks for California FAIR Plan

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As California’s wildfire insurance crisis drives homeowners to the state’s insurer of last resort, wealthy areas such as Beverly Hills, Malibu and Bel Air make up an increasingly large portion of the liability exposure — a dynamic that experts fear …

22 07, 2026

Insurance M&A Pace Down 15% in First Half 2026: OPTIS

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Insurance agency mergers & acquisitions in the first six months of 2026 were down 15% compared with the same period last year. As it did in its first-quarter report, investment banking and financial consulting firm OPTIS Partners said a downward …

22 07, 2026

UK Lawmaker Lucy Rigby Appointed City Minister in Charge of Financial Services

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New Prime Minister Andy Burnham appointed Lucy Rigby as Britain’s City Minister on Tuesday, putting her in charge of overseeing the country’s financial services sector. Rigby was in that role under Keir Starmer’s government between September last year and May …

22 07, 2026

Google Expands in Miami After Its Billionaire Founders Buy Homes

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Alphabet Inc. has more than quadrupled its office space in Miami this year shortly after co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin bought homes in the area. Google’s parent company signed a lease this spring to expand to about 45,000 square …

22 07, 2026

Lloyd’s of London Says Former CEO John Neal Breached Rules

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Lloyd’s of London said former CEO John Neal breached its compliance rules after failing to disclose a close relationship that could have been perceived as creating a potential conflict of interest. An investigation found that Neal failed to disclose the …

22 07, 2026

Florida’s Share of Claims Lawsuits Now About Half of 2020 Numbers, Data Show

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At the height of the Florida property insurance crisis in the early 2020s, one statistic seemed to galvanize the movement for reforming the state’s insurance claims litigation statutes: Floridians had produced about 9% of all homeowners’ claims in the U.S. …