21 11, 2025

Europe to Launch Service to Measure Role of Climate Change in Extreme Weather

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The EU is launching a service to measure the role climate change is playing in extreme weather events like heatwaves and extreme rain, and experts say this could help governments set climate policy, improve financial risk assessments and provide evidence …

21 11, 2025

People Moves: Encova Insurance Adds Palumbo to Board of Directors

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Encova Insurance, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, named Corey Palumbo to their board of directors. Palumbo is an attorney with Bowles Rice in Charleston, West Virginia, where his primary practice areas include energy litigation, deliberate intent and general civil litigation. Palumbo …

21 11, 2025

IIHS: Large Blind Zones in Vehicles Increase Pedestrian Crash Risk

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Vehicles with large driver-side blind zones are far more likely to strike pedestrians during left turns, according to new research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. In a study of nearly 4,500 pedestrian crashes in seven states, IIHS found …

21 11, 2025

People Moves: Skyward Specialty Promotes Burkhart to President, U.S. Property & Casualty

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Skyward Specialty Insurance Group Inc., headquartered in Houston, Texas, promoted John Burkhart to president, U.S. property & casualty, Skyward Specialty Insurance. In this expanded role, Burkhart will assume oversight of the Company’s captives & specialty programs divisions in addition to …

21 11, 2025

SEC’s Epic Post-Shutdown Filing Backlog Risks Stalling US IPOs

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Rank-and-file US Securities and Exchange Commission workers have returned to face the paperwork that piled up during the longest government shutdown in US history, and supervisors say the order of the day is “triage.” Deal first with the tasks still …

20 11, 2025

Starbucks Must Face Shareholder Lawsuit Over Surprise Sales Decline

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Starbucks must face a lawsuit claiming it defrauded shareholders by concealing declining sales in the United States and China, its largest markets, leading to a 16% drop in its stock price after the coffee chain revealed the unexpected weakness. In …

21 11, 2025

World Insurance Acquires Van Syckel Insurance of New Jersey

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World Insurance Associates announced that it acquired the business of Van Syckel Insurance of Bound Brook, New Jersey on August 1, 2025. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Van Syckel Insurance, which was started in 1865, is managed by …

21 11, 2025

Federal Judge Denies TRO to Marsh in Case Against Former Employees

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A federal judge has denied a temporary restraining order against seven former employees of Marsh sued in one of several lawsuits against defectors to join Howden US. Marsh USA early this month filed a lawsuit against the group of former …

21 11, 2025

Jury Orders Massachusetts State Police to Pay $6.8M Over Discrimination Claims

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A jury has ordered the Massachusetts State Police to pay $6.8 million after a finding that it discriminated against female and minority troopers. The verdict confirmed Tuesday by a Suffolk Superior Court clerk came in a lawsuit accusing the agency’s …

20 11, 2025

Malaysia Enters Mediation With Baer on $112 Million 1MDB Suit

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Malaysia said it’s entered mediation talks with Julius Baer Group Ltd. in a bid to settle a $112 million lawsuit filed against the Swiss bank by a unit of the failed 1MDB development fund. SRC International (Malaysia) Ltd. sued the …