26 11, 2025

World Insurance Adds New Jersey’s Mossbrook & Hicks Insurance Agency

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New Jersey-based insurance broker World Insurance Associates reports that it acquired the business of Mossbrook & Hicks Insurance Agency of Cape May Court House, New Jersey on August 1, 2025. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The personal and …

26 11, 2025

‘Agent of the Year’ Sentenced After Misusing Premium Payments

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A central Georgia insurance agency owner and former Alfa insurance agent of the year must serve more than two years in prison after pleading guilty to bank fraud and misusing more than $220,000 in premiums. Jeremy Lasseter, who owned a …

26 11, 2025

Washington Commissioner Tells Thin Blue Line to Stop Selling Unlicensed Coverage

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Washington Insurance Commissioner Patty Kuderer ordered Thin Blue Line Benefits to stop selling insurance in Washington after investigators found the company had been operating without the required state license,. The OIC began investigating the Texas-based company in July after receiving …

26 11, 2025

Warner Music Settles Lawsuit With AI Music Startup Suno

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Warner Music Group Corp. and Suno, a generative-artificial intelligence music startup, settled their copyright lawsuit and agreed on a new partnership for creating music. Warner and the other major record labels sued Suno and its competitor Udio last year, accusing …

26 11, 2025

Businessman, Former Federal Insurance Co. Attorney Hit With $50M Verdict

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In a lawsuit begun more than a decade ago and which led to counter-suits, appeals to the Florida Supreme Court and attention from national tort-reform groups, a Palm Beach County jury has awarded more than $50 million to the former …

26 11, 2025

Viewpoint: Why Predictable Performance Earns Banks Better D&O Rates

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In the insurance world, uncertainty is expensive. For community banks seeking Directors and Officers liability coverage, that uncertainty has traditionally translated into premiums that fail to fairly distinguish between well-governed institutions and their less disciplined peers. But a technological revolution …

26 11, 2025

How E-Commerce Deliveries Are Fueling More Crashes, Traffic, Pollution and Worker Injuries

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Rapidly growing e-commerce and last-mile delivery services have contributed to significant increases in crashes, traffic, workplace injuries and air pollution, according to a report from New York City Comptroller Brad Lander. The report estimates that roughly one-in-three New Yorkers receives …

26 11, 2025

He Built A Nursing Home Empire Despite California State Investigations. Now, Lawsuits Are Piling Up

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In February 2024, a Los Angeles County jury awarded $2.34 million to an 84-year-old nursing home resident named Betsy Jentz, finding that the facility had violated her rights on 132 occasions, at times leading to serious injuries. Six months later, …

26 11, 2025

People Moves: NFP Names Gillingham President, Commercial Risk, and Mahoney Head of Programs, Totalis Program Underwriters

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NFP named Tom Gillingham president, commercial risk, expanding his executive leadership across NFP’s commercial property/casualty programs and wholesale businesses. Based in Seattle, Washington, Gillingham joined NFP in 2017 as part of NFP’s acquisition of EverGuard Insurance Services Inc. Since 2020, …

26 11, 2025

New Jersey Vegetable Processing Firm Faces $1M OSHA Penalty After Worker Fatality

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The U.S. Department of Labor has cited a fresh-cut vegetable processing company for willfully and repeatedly violating safety requirements after a worker was fatally injured while cleaning and sanitizing a machine. The department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited …