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9 05, 2023

EU Plans Tough ‘Value for Money’ Rules for Investment Products: Draft Proposals

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Banks, insurers and asset managers in the European Union would only be allowed to sell funds and other products across the bloc if they could prove to regulators they offer value for money, draft proposals seen by Reuters showed. The …

28 04, 2023

Fed Plans Broad Revamp of Bank Oversight After SVB Failure

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The Federal Reserve issued a detailed and scathing assessment on Friday of its failure to identify problems and push for fixes at Silicon Valley Bank before the U.S. lender’s collapse, and promised tougher supervision and stricter rules for banks. In …

28 04, 2023

Specialty Re/Insurer Canopius Has Management Shake-up With 3 Execs Exiting

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Canopius Group, the London-based global specialty re/insurer, has had a management shake-up, with three executives exiting the company. “Over the last 18 months, Canopius has reorganised our global underwriting operations to both enhance the focus on specialist underwriting capabilities and …

28 04, 2023

People Moves: Ryan Specialty Names Davies CEO and Smith President of PERse’s North American Operations

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Ryan Specialty Appoints Davies as CEO and Smith as President of PERse’s North American Operations Ryan Specialty Holdings, Inc. has made leadership appointments to its Power.Energy.Risk’s (PERse) North American operations, the Chicago, Illinois-based company’s renewable energy managing general underwriter (MGU). …

28 04, 2023

$1.6B Trial Starts Against Utility Over Fatal 2020 Oregon Wildfires

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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A trial connected to a $1.6 billion class action lawsuit against utility PacifiCorp over the catastrophic Labor Day 2020 wildfires in Oregon started Tuesday in Portland. The fires in 2020 killed nine people, burned more than …

28 04, 2023

Suit Over Texas Woman’s Jail Death Settles for $7M

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DALLAS (AP) – A private company that ran a Texas jail where a woman allegedly went blind following days of medical neglect before her 2019 death has agreed to a $7 million lawsuit settlement along with other defendants, her family’s …

28 04, 2023

Mississippi River Flooding Prompts Evacuations, Sandbagging in Iowa

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Some residents along the swelling Upper Mississippi River evacuated their homes this week while others scrambled Wednesday to stack sandbags in preparation for what forecasters say could be near-record flooding caused by the rapid melting …

28 04, 2023

Feds: Ohio Man Tried to Firebomb Ohio Church to Stop Drag Show

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CLEVELAND (AP) – An eastern Ohio man told investigators that he tried to burn down an Ohio church because he wanted to prevent a drag show that was scheduled to take place there, federal prosecutors allege in newly unsealed charges. …

28 04, 2023

Lawsuit Seeks to Recover $3M Invested in Louisiana Hurricane-Damage Lawsuits

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A restoration contractor that helped finance an effort by McClenny Moseley & Associates to file thousands of hurricane-damage claims in Louisiana wants its $3 million investment back. Access Restoration Services US filed a lawsuit in a Texas state court in …

1 05, 2023

After Parking Garage Deadly Collapse, New York City Partly Shutters Four Others

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After the deadly collapse of a parking structure in lower Manhattan, New York City building officials swept through dozens of parking garages and ordered four of them to immediately shutter because of structural defects that “deteriorated to the point where …