MEMIC Hires White as Senior Underwriter in Pennsylvania Workers’ compensation insurer MEMIC Group has hired Curtis White as senior production underwriter, responsible for renewals and new business in Pennsylvania. White’s career in the workers’ compensation industry spans 14 years and …
Nearly three quarters of global cyber-risk decision markers recently surveyed said their company experienced at least one cyberattack in the past year and while these attacks have spurred more investment in cyber-risk mitigation efforts, just 3% rated their company’s cyber …
The head of the Food and Drug Administration faced bipartisan fury from House lawmakers May 25 over months of delays investigating problems at the nation’s largest baby formula plant that prompted an ongoing shortage. FDA Commissioner Robert Califf laid out …
Crews in northern New Mexico have cleared and cut containment lines around nearly half of the perimeter of the nation’s largest active wildfire while bracing for a return of weather conditions that might fan flames and send embers aloft, officials …
Firefighters have contained a blaze in the southwest Alaska village of Kasigluk that burned three buildings, including a school building, according to the Alaska Division of Forestry. Air tankers and smokejumpers responded to the fire, which the division said Thursday …
Two more property insurers, including two of Florida’s larger carriers, did not wait around to see what help the just-concluded special session of the Legislature may provide, and have stopped new business in the state. People’s Trust, once listed as …
U.S. consumer spending rose more than expected in April, while annual inflation appeared to have peaked, which could help to underpin economic growth in the second quarter amid rising fears of a recession. Consumer spending, which accounts for more than …
Milestone Partners acquired specialty auto insurance holding company Drive Assurance Holdings LLC (“Drive Assurance”) and the related acquisition of GoAuto, LLC (“GoAuto”) and its affiliated technology platform, Adaptive Information Technologies, LLC (“AIT”). GoAuto calls itself a tech-focused, vertically integrated personal …
About $33 million of the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan recently signed into law by President Joe Biden will go toward cleanning up 277 of an estimated 15,000 abandoned oil and gas wells on federal land, the nation’s interior secretary …
Texas Mutual Insurance Company is awarding $1.1 million in grants to 11 colleges across Texas to fund workplace safety courses for employers, workers and the general public. Texas Mutual—the state’s leading provider of workers’ compensation insurance—began its commitment to supporting …