5 06, 2025

BlackRock Escapes Texas Oil-Boycott List After ESG Retreat

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BlackRock Inc. was removed from Texas’ blacklist of companies that boycott fossil fuels, ending a three-year standoff over the environmental policies of the world’s largest asset manager. The move means pension funds and other state-run investment accounts — which manage …

5 06, 2025

Deadly Flash Flooding Claims Life in Dallas As Severe Weather Hits Central U.S.

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One person has died after severe weather tore through parts of the central U.S., including heavy rain in Dallas, a tornado that touched down in the Kansas City area and flash flooding in Kansas that forced firefighters to rescue dozens …

5 06, 2025

People Moves: RT Specialty Tabs David Derigiotis to Lead New Detroit Office

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RT Specialty, a wholesale distributor of specialty insurance products and services and the wholesale broking specialty of Ryan Specialty, announced that it has opened an office in Detroit and hired David Derigiotis as EVP and office president. Derigiotis joins RT …

5 06, 2025

Minnesota’s The Builders Group Goes Live on Insurity’s Workers Comp Suite

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Insurity, a provider of cloud-based software for property and casualty insurance carriers, brokers, and MGAs, today announced that The Builders Group (TBG) has successfully gone live on Insurity Workers’ Comp Suite. This milestone signifies the completion of a deployment that …

5 06, 2025

Monarch E&S Acquires Market Finders in New Mexico

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Monarch E&S Insurance Services acquired Market Finders Inc. in Albuquerque, New Mexico. MFI is a managing general agent and wholesale broker founded in 1971. MFI specializes in both personal and commercial lines, including transportation risks. The company is led by …

6 06, 2025

Trump Administration Targets Connecticut Town Over Transgender Athlete Policies

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A school system in Connecticut that’s at the center of an ongoing legal fight over allowing transgender student athletes to participate in competitive girls’ sports is being investigated by the Trump administration, the U.S. Department of Education confirmed Tuesday, adding …

6 06, 2025

Viewpoint: Understanding the Future of Insurance by Studying the Past

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One of the things I love about the insurance business is that anyone—regardless of where they start—can build a meaningful, lifelong career. I am proof of that. In our industry, your ability to reach your potential is a function of …

6 06, 2025

Historic Hudson River Lighthouse Vandalized and Set on Fire

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A group of four men broke into a historic New York lighthouse along the Hudson River, set a fire and vandalized the interior, destroying valuable antiques, furniture and other items. The Tarrytown Lighthouse in Sleepy Hollow, built in 1883 and …

6 06, 2025

LA County to Pay $2.7M to Teen Attacked in ‘Gladiator Fights’

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Los Angeles County agreed to pay $2.7 million to a teenager who was attacked by at least six other young people at a juvenile detention center in so-called “gladiator fights” that were allegedly facilitated by probation officers. The boy’s beating …

6 06, 2025

Napa Town That Once Rode out Emergencies with Diesel Gets Clean-Power Backup

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For residents of this quaint tourist town on the northern edge of Napa Valley, the threat of wildfire is seldom out of mind. The hillside bears burn scars from a 2020 fire that forced all of Calistoga to evacuate, and …