All the headlines from our Numbers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 3 2022 // The Demotech financial review firm has withdrawn the stability ratings for two more property insurance companies, Bankers Specialty Insurance and First Community, both part of Bankers Insurance Group.The companies are...
Jul 27 2022 // 3M Co. put its Aearo Technologies unit into bankruptcy in a bid to resolve more than 230,000 lawsuits brought mainly by US military veterans over allegedly faulty combat earplugs.The conglomerate has already spent nearly...
Jul 26 2022 // Four people, including a 3-year-old child, were injured when a car crashed through an unoccupied toll booth and ended up in the Atlantic Ocean, officials said.The crash happened just before 5 p.m. Sunday along Daytona...
Jul 26 2022 // A quarter of firms operating at Lloyd’s of London have reached the commercial insurance market’s target for 35% of leaders to be women, though progress on diversity was “incremental,” Lloyd’s...
Jul 25 2022 // MEXICO BEACH, Fla. — Standing on the deck of the new Driftwood Inn, 31/2 years after Hurricane Michael obliterated the old one, Tom Wood spoke of the months after the storm.One of his daughters had urged him and his...
Jul 22 2022 // Two long-time New Hampshire insurance agencies— The Insurance Center based in Claremont and McCrillis & Eldredge in Newport— announced that their companies are joining forces.The combined organization will continue...
Jul 15 2022 // Three people have been arrested in connection with a fire that destroyed a historic church in West Virginia, state police said.Braxton Allan Miller, 18, of Charleston; James Dean Elmore, 19, of Beckley; and a juvenile boy...
Jul 14 2022 // One million gallons of oil have been collected since April 2019 from the site of the nation’s longest oil spill, in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana, the Coast Guard and National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
Jun 28 2022 // Three women were charged with insurance fraud following an investigation by the Iowa Insurance Division’s Fraud Bureau.Danesha Minor, 37, of Des Moines was charged with presenting false information (Class D Felony),...
Jun 28 2022 // Taiwan’s financial regulator said on Tuesday that seven Taiwanese insurance companies have not received interest due on May 27 on Russian Eurobonds after a grace period ended on Sunday evening.Russia defaulted on its...
Jun 15 2022 // Some Florida insurers may feel like they didn’t score a home run with the recent property insurance reform measures signed into law in May. But they could soon see a friendly umpire on the state Supreme Court, likely...
Jun 14 2022 // Police charged three boys with arson in fires that destroyed three historic homes in an Atlanta suburb over the weekend.Two 14-year-olds and one 15-year-old were arrested Wednesday at their homes in Clayton County,...
May 31 2022 // Searchers recovered the bodies of three missing boaters Sunday after two vessels collided on a Georgia river, bringing the crash’s death toll to five people. One of the surviving boaters was charged with boating...
May 26 2022 // United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced on May 25, 2022 that Doniesha Gibson (Gibson) age 31, of New Orleans, Louisiana and Erica Lee Thompson (Erica Lee), age 47, of Harvey, Louisiana, were sentenced for...
May 23 2022 // A jury in Pensacola, Florida federal court on Friday ordered 3M Co. to pay $77.5 million to a U.S. Army veteran who said he suffered hearing damage as a result of using the company’s military-issue earplugs.The...
May 20 2022 // Two of the oldest insurance agencies in Central Kentucky have merged. Rightmyer Insurance Agency in Danville, founded in the 1930s, has joined forces with Sam Dexter Insurance Agency, which began in 1954, according to a...
May 17 2022 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation held hearings Tuesday on major rate increases from three more property insurers: Florida Farm Bureau, First Floridian, and Kin Interinsurance Network.The Kin and First Floridian...
May 11 2022 // WILLIAMSPORT, Md. (AP) — Two construction barges broke free from their moorings amid flooding on the Potomac River over the weekend and floated downstream before being snagged by underwater materials, a National Park...
May 5 2022 // An Arkansas man and a Florida man have been sentenced to prison for their roles in giving kickbacks in compounded cream schemes that defrauded a government insurer of millions of dollars.Federal prosecutors said Brad Duke,...
Apr 26 2022 // May 23 through May 27.Those are the dates Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has set aside for a special session of the Florida Legislature to address a number of changes that could ameliorate what many have called a property...