17 01, 2025

South Korea’s Crashed Jet Reveals Bird Feathers in Both Engines

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South Korean investigators found feathers in both engines of the Boeing Co. 737-800 jet involved in a crash late last month, pointing to possible evidence that the aircraft may have lost electrical power before an ill-fated emergency landing that killed …

17 01, 2025

Broker Juniper Re Enters London With Industry Veteran Hawke at Helm

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Juniper Re LLC, the specialist reinsurance broking arm of The Baldwin Group, announced its entry into the London market, appointing industry veteran Nick Hawke as head of office. With more than four decades of reinsurance experience in the London market, …

17 01, 2025

France Steps Up Checks After Foot-and-Mouth Outbreak in Germany

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France has reinforced checks for foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and issued alerts to veterinarians after an outbreak of the highly contagious virus was detected in cattle in Germany last week, prompting trade bans from several countries. France is trying to protect …

17 01, 2025

Damaging Megadroughts Are Spreading Around the World

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Severe drought conditions have helped fuel the Los Angeles wildfires. But a new study, released Thursday in the journal Nature comes with a warning: Climate change is making catastrophic, multiyear “megadroughts” much worse around the world. Droughts are relative — …

17 01, 2025

Seibels Bruce, One of the South’s Oldest Insurance Companies, Closes its Doors

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Two decades after its subsidiaries were deemed insolvent and 155 years after it was founded, one of the oldest insurance companies in the South has officially gone out of business. Seibels Bruce & Company’s 128,000-square-foot office building in Columbia, South …

17 01, 2025

Smoke, Coverage Issues Cloud Wildfire Forecast: $35-$45B Losses Insured

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CoreLogic announced a preliminary range of insured losses for the Eaton and Palisades Fires in Los Angeles of $35 billion to $45 billion, but there are a lot of factors that could change the numbers. “We don’t know,” Tom Larsen, …

17 01, 2025

Gallagher: Cyber Insurance Market to Expand as Risks Evolve

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While 2024 brought record-breaking data-breach costs and evolving cyber risk, all signs point to stable rates and ample capacity in 2025. Intense competition among cyber insurance carriers has resulted in higher limits, enhanced cyber risk management services, flexibility in insurance …

17 01, 2025

People Moves: Arch Insurance Int’l Promotes Senior Leaders in Casualty Team; Markel Taps Chubb’s Jordan as Casualty Claims Manager in Australia

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This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Arch Insurance International and Markel. A summary of these new hires follows here. Arch Insurance Int’l Promotes Senior Leaders in Casualty Team Arch Insurance International announced three senior promotions within its …

17 01, 2025

Trump’s Miami Resort Wins Approval for $3 Billion Condo Project

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Donald Trump will leave Mar-a-Lago and head to Washington next week to be sworn in as president. On his way out of South Florida, his family business scored a long-sought local victory. In a 4-0 vote on Wednesday, the Doral …

17 01, 2025

NC Court Says Mother Can Sue Trooper After Student Killed in Ride-Along

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The mother of a North Carolina university student killed while on a ride-along in a Highway Patrol cruiser can continue suing for gross negligence the trooper who drove off the road during a high-speed chase, a …