Online vehicle auctioneer Copart last Thursday agreed to acquire peer ACV Auctions in an all-cash deal of about $1.9 billion, marking its entry into dealer-to-dealer wholesale remarketing. The acquisition comes as Copart seeks to expand beyond its core auction business …
Insurance broker network Keystone, headquartered in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, appointed Kevin Meskell as national brokerage leader. Meskell will lead Keystone’s national brokerage strategy — deepening the company’s carrier relationships and strengthening the placement capabilities behind every Keystone agency and platform partner. …
Mizuho Bank provided some $100 million in credit to Radiant World in June which was secured by invoices that a counterparty to the iron ore trader later said were invalid, according to documents and a source with direct knowledge of …
US Senator Elizabeth Warren is pressing the National Association of Insurance Commissioners to explain how it’s policing Wall Street firms’ influence over insurers and their bets on private credit, saying a probe of Mark Walter’s businesses raises questions about regulatory …
Insurance brokerage The Baldwin Group, Inc. said today it has entered a definitive agreement resulting in becoming a privately held company. An entity formed by Sequence Holdings and DFO Management is to pay an all-cash sum of $7.7 billion to …
A late-filed workers’ compensation claim can be considered valid where the lateness is due to the identity of the claimant’s employer being concealed from her. The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission (VWCC) has upheld a deputy commissioner’s ruling that found an …
CVC-backed Bamboo Insurance Services is targeting a valuation of up to $3.24 billion on a fully diluted basis in its U.S. initial public offering, the company revealed in a filing on Monday. The Midvale, Utah-based company’s selling shareholders are seeking …
Three U.S. lawmakers have called on the American government to blacklist a set of Indian IT firms over what they describe as “more than fifteen years of targeted espionage against U.S. citizens, businesses, and the lawyers representing them.” In a …
Chemours, DuPont and Corteva have reached a $455 million settlement with North Carolina and 11 local entities over PFAS contamination claims tied to Chemours’ Fayetteville Works plant and other historical discharges. Lawsuits accusing major chemical companies of polluting U.S. drinking …
The birds are up with the sunrise — warblers, flycatchers, sparrows and towhees calling across the treetops. Deer browse on tender buds emerging from dense shrubs. Black bears scrounge for roots, insects and other edibles. It’s an idyllic setting in …