Beazley, the specialty insurer, has announced the appointment of Sundeep Khera as head of Marine, effective April 21, 2026. As part of the Marine, Accident & Political (MAP) Risks team, Khera will lead the Marine, Energy, Aviation and Space teams, …
The Midwest is bracing for severe weather on Monday, including the threat of the excessive rainfall, hail damaging wind gusts and tornadoes. Missouri, Illinois and Indiana face the greatest risk of severe storms. Scattered large hail, flooding, severe and damaging …
The city of Baltimore suffered a defeat in its efforts to address the opioid epidemic last week when the Maryland Supreme Court vacated a $152 million public nuisance verdict won by the city against drug distributors McKesson and AmerisourceBergen. The …
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided on Monday over Bayer AG’s effort to shut down thousands of lawsuits accusing the company of failing to warn users that the active ingredient in its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer. The justices heard arguments …
The Safeco Insurance brand has gone the way of the dodo bird. It’s now all Limu Emu, all the time. Liberty Mutual said on April 27 that it followed through with what it said about a year ago and officially …
A California company was fined $4.4 million for misclassifying caregivers as independent contractors. The California Labor Commissioner’s Office cited Hart Placement Agency Inc., a Canoga Park based company, and its principals, Annie Ghaw and Hartmann Ghaw, for misclassifying 144 caregivers …
The Department of Justice issued an order on April 23, rescheduling state-licensed medical marijuana and Food & Drug Administration-approved cannabis products to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). The order is also expected to jumpstart the stalled Drug …
An indictment charges six in a sophisticated theft ring that shipped stolen vehicles to countries as far as Africa, according to an announcement by the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia. According to the indictment, at least 20 …
For decades, the 1990 theft of 13 artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum — now valued at more than $500 million — has remained unsolved. It remains the largest art theft in history — far surpassing more recent museum …
A year after the Trump Administration attempted to halt funding for some resiliency programs, the Federal Emergency Management Administration announced almost $20 million in flood mitigation grants around the Southeast. The funding for projects in Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi and …