21 01, 2025

LA Braces for Fire Risk From Bone-Dry Winds as Winter Rains Lag

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Dangerous winds and drought will create extreme fire risk across Southern California Tuesday, putting more than 11 million people in the path of conditions that would allow blazes to spread quickly as the region holds out hope for rain. Seasonal …

21 01, 2025

Trucordia Acquires Rusty Healy Agency in Mississippi

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Utah-based Trucordia, a top-20 U.S. insurance brokerage, has acquired the Rusty Healy Insurance Agency in Madison, Mississippi, the company said in a news release. Healy, founded more than 30 years ago, offers personal and commercial lines of coverage in the …

21 01, 2025

Florida Snowman: As Ice and Snow Come to the State, DeSantis Declares Emergency

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As a rare snowstorm was bearing down on northern Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday declared a state of emergency for the region, readying the National Guard and state agencies to respond as needed. Alabama’s governor also declared a state …

21 01, 2025

Trump Curtails Protections Around Diversity, LGBTQ Rights

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The United States will recognize only two sexes, male and female, that are unchangeable, President Donald Trump ordered on Monday as he moved to quickly end a range of policies aimed at promoting racial equity and protecting rights for LGBTQ+ …

21 01, 2025

LA Braces for Fire Risk From Bone-Dry Winds as Winter Rains Lag

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Dangerous winds and drought will create extreme fire risk across Southern California Tuesday, putting more than 11 million people in the path of conditions that would allow blazes to spread quickly as the region holds out hope for rain. Seasonal …

21 01, 2025

Tropolis Acquires 4 Agencies in Midwest

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Tropolis, an insurance brokerage that provides property & casualty (P&C) and employee benefits solutions, announced it has completed the acquisitions of four Midwest insurance agencies. Terms of the private transactions were not disclosed. The four businesses are BDMH Enterprises, an …

21 01, 2025

HPE Investigating Breach Claims, Says No Business Impact

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. says it’s investigating a potential cyber incident from a hacking gang that’s also breached other technology giants. The company became aware last week of “claims being made by a group called IntelBroker that it was in …

21 01, 2025

New Orleans Landscaper Ordered to Pay $319K in Back Wages

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TheU.S. Department of Labor has recovered $319,065 in back wages for 49 workers employed by a New Orleans landscaping company that misclassified them as independent contractors and, by doing so, denied them overtime pay. The department’s Wage and Hour Division …

16 01, 2025

Moody’s Says LA Fire May Pose Risk to Southern California Edison

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The Eaton Fire in central Los Angeles County poses a potential credit risk to power provider Southern California Edison, which operates electrical lines in the area where the destructive blaze first started, Moody’s Ratings said in a report on Thursday. …

17 01, 2025

California Workers’ Comp Public Self-Insured Losses Rise Despite Claim Volume Decline

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Increases in average medical payments and average indemnity payments drove public self-insureds’ total paid losses up last year even though the number of claims fell, a new report shows. The California Workers’ Compensation Institute reviewed the initial report on fiscal …