As President Donald Trump attempts to reshape college admissions, he’s promising a new era of fairness, with an emphasis on merit and test scores and a blind eye toward diversity. Yet the Republican president’s critics — and some allies — …
Montoya Joins Liberty Naranjo as VP, Producer The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers (Liberty), headquartered in Gainesville, Florida, named Brittany Montoya vice president and producer at Liberty Naranjo, Liberty’s high-growth Northern California office led by Managing Partners Jonathan Naranjo and Michael …
Investigators on Tuesday were trying to determine what caused an explosion aboard a cargo ship laden with coal as it departed Baltimore’s harbor for East Africa. Officials said no one was injured in the blast Monday evening, which prompted a …
Health officials are working to alert hundreds of people in dozens of states and several countries who may have been exposed to rabies in bat-infested cabins in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park over the past few months. As of Friday, …
When Hurricane Helene barreled across several southern states last fall, it destroyed homes and killed more than 150 people. The storm also took out one of the country’s main factories producing intravenous fluid bags widely used in hospitals. The ensuing …
Brokers in western states take note: there is new help for wildfire risks. Specialty re/insurer SiriusPoint Ltd. is offering capacity to managing general underwriter Arden Insurance Services LLC for a wildfire exposed risks program that includes embedded parametric coverage. Arden’s …
The Oregon Division of Financial Regulation (DFR) recently received its five-year accreditation from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The purpose of NAIC accreditation is to ensure that state insurance departments meet baseline standards of solvency regulation, particularly with …
Yet another property insurance carrier has been approved to do business in Florida, this one a sister company to Monarch National Insurance, based in Tallahassee. Viceroy Preferred Insurance Co. is at least the 15th new insurer to enter the Florida …
Hurricane Erin is muddling computer models and making forecasters, analysts and traders question the accuracy of the outlook for heat, wind and storms across Europe next week. Erin, which churned through the Atlantic 330 kilometers (205 miles) off the North …
Governments and employers should take urgent action to help protect the health of workers who are increasingly exposed to extreme heat, the United Nations said on Friday. Climate change is making heatwaves more common and intense, and workers worldwide are …