A month after federal regulators hit Dollar General stores with $1.6 million in fines for safety violations, the retailer now faces an additional $2.7 million in penalties for similar problems in Alabama, Florida and Georgia. The U.S. Occupational Safety and …
Hamilton Names Kuchma as CEO of US E&S Insurer Hamilton Select Hamilton Insurance Group announced the appointment of Anita Kuchma as chief executive officer at Hamilton Select, its U.S. excess and surplus (E&S) lines insurer. Kuchma reports to Group CEO …
Twenty-one people in nine states were arrested and charged Nov. 2 with their roles in conspiracies to steal catalytic converters from vehicles across the country and sell them for profit. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, law enforcement from …
EUCLID, Ohio (AP) – A white police officer who fatally shot a Black driver during a struggle inside a car in 2017 must pay his family $4.4 million. An Ohio jury made the award Tuesday, finding that Euclid officer Matthew …
FedEx Corp. said it will challenge what may be the largest-ever jury verdict won by a worker suing over racial bias, $366 million awarded to a Black former saleswoman who claimed the company fired her after she complained about discrimination. …
DETROIT (AP) – The family of Porter Burks, a Black man fatally shot during an early morning confrontation with Detroit police, is suing the city for $50 million, their lawyer announced Tuesday. Five unnamed officers also are named in the …
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A St. Louis jury has ruled that Ford Motor Co. and other companies must pay $6 million to a Missouri family over claims that a woman’s death was caused by exposure to asbestos, including from dust …
Specialty Program Group, an operator of specialty insurance brokerages and underwriting facilities, announced the acquisition of the assets of Catapult Insurance Solutions. Based in Carrollton, Texas, Catapult is a privately held managing general insurance agency and wholesale brokerage for niche …
A Moody’s Investors Service Report shows that 16 sectors holding $4.3 trillion in rated debt are exposed to high or very high environmental credit risk. That’s more than twice as much as when the Paris Agreement was announced in 2015, …
Everest Insurance, the insurance division of Everest Re Group Ltd., announced its further expansion into the European market with the opening of two new branches in Paris, France and Düsseldorf, Germany. Plans for a third European branch opening in Madrid, …