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UAE Property Group Makes High Bid for Surfside Condo Site

Oct 5 2021 // A Miami judge has approved the contingent sale of the Surfside, Florida, property where a 12-story condominium building collapsed in June, killing 98 people.A Dubai-based billionaire bid $120 million to buy the property,...

Federal Judge Overturns South Carolina School Mask Ban; Dept. of Education to Comply

Sep 30 2021 // A federal judge Tuesday suspended South Carolina from enforcing a rule that banned school districts from requiring masks for students.Parents of disabled children, helped by the American Civil Liberties Union, sued the...

Military Training Jet Crashes in Texas; Homes Damaged, Pilots Injured

Sep 21 2021 // A military training jet crashed Sept. 19 in a neighborhood near Fort Worth, Texas, injuring the two pilots and damaging three homes but not seriously hurting anyone on the ground, authorities said.Both pilots managed to...

Surfside Commissioners Reject Proposed Land Swap at Site of Condo Collapse

Sep 17 2021 // Commissioners in Surfside, Florida, have rejected a proposal to trade public beachfront to the eventual buyer of the condominium collapse site so that a memorial to the 98 victims could be built there.The decision followed...

New Member Benefit Announced for MAIA Members through Insurance Journal’s Academy of Insurance

Sep 7 2021 // September 7, 2021 – The Massachusetts Association of Insurance Agents (MAIA) and the Insurance Journal’s Academy of Insurance are pleased to announce a new member benefit to bring the Academy of...

Connecticut Insurance Department to Host Conference on Climate Change, Insurance

Aug 31 2021 // The Connecticut Insurance Department and U.S. experts on climate change, resiliency, mitigation and adaptation are leading a discussion on what the insurance industry should consider to mitigate and adapt.On October 13 and...

Massachusetts Contractor Faces $1.3M in Penalties After Workers Die at Dig Site

Aug 31 2021 // At a Boston sewer repair worksite in February, Jordy Alexander Castaneda Romero and Juan Carlos Figueroa Gutierrez died after a dump truck struck and pushed them into a nine-foot deep trench.For their employer, Atlantic...

Fire Crews Battle Blaze at Former Philadelphia Refinery Site

Aug 26 2021 // Fire crews battled a blaze at the site of a former refinery in south Philadelphia that was the scene of a huge blaze two years ago.Police said fire crews were called just after 12:30 p.m. Monday to the former Philadelphia...

First Spanish-language Course Now Available from the Academy of Insurance

Aug 13 2021 // Insurance Journal’s Academy of Insurance is pleased to launch its first Spanish-language course. The Spanish version of the popular course “You Can’t Read Insurance Policies Like Anything Else“,...

Florida Professional Insurance Agents Announce Partnership with Insurance Journal’s Academy of Insurance

Aug 13 2021 // The Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) of Florida and the Insurance Journal’s Academy of Insurance are pleased to announce a new member benefit to bring the Academy of Insurance’s online courses and skills...

While Aon and Willis Were Focused on Merger, Marsh Attracted Producer Talent

Aug 5 2021 // While Aon and Willis Towers Watson were trying for many months to land their merger, their competitors were able lure away some of their producer talent – capitalizing on the “distraction and uncertainty”...

Recreational Vehicle Rental Site Outdoorsy to Expand Its Insurance Division

Aug 2 2021 // Recreational vehicle rental marketplace Outdoorsy said it will use some of the $120 million it raised this year to expand its digital managing general agency that sells insurance to RV owners and renters in the U.S. and...

‘Talent War’ Forces Companies Across Globe to Pay Higher Salaries to Woo Workers

Jul 30 2021 // The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened a shortage of white-collar workers in many countries, forcing companies to pay higher salaries to woo talent, a top London-based recruiter said on Tuesday [July 27].Robert Walters –...

California, Nevada Governors Tour Site of Massive Wildfire

Jul 28 2021 // The governors of California and Nevada called for more federal firefighting assistance Wednesday as they toured a region blackened by one of several massive wildfires that have destroyed dozens of homes in the West.Nevada...

Search For Survivors at Surfside Condo Collapse Site Called Off

Jul 8 2021 // The search for victims of the collapse of a Miami-area high-rise condominium reached its 14th day on Wednesday July 7, as workers uncovered 10 more bodies from the rubble and officials sounded more and more grim about the...

Ohio Supreme Court: Armed School Employees Must Have Training

Jul 5 2021 // School districts that allow employees to be armed must also require police-level training for those workers, a divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled on June 23 in a victory for a group of parents who challenged a local...

Environmentalists To Sue West Virginia Over Pollution At Greensdale Coals Site

Jul 2 2021 // A group of environmentalists said Tuesday it intended to sue West Virginia over evidence of pollutants running into waterways from a coal mine site.In a letter to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection,...

Recreational Vehicle Rental Site Outdoorsy to Expand Its Insurance Division

Jun 30 2021 // Recreational vehicle rental marketplace Outdoorsy said it will use some of the $120 million it recently raised to expand its digital managing general agency that sells insurance to RV owners and renters in the U.S. and...

Armed School Employees Require Training, Ohio Supreme Court Says

Jun 24 2021 // School districts that allow employees to be armed must also require police-level training for those workers, a divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled on June 23 in a victory for a group of parents who challenged a local...

Training on Louisiana Sex Misconduct Rules for Colleges to Begin Soon

Jun 21 2021 // Louisiana’s college administrators will start receiving training this summer on new requirements for how sexual misconduct claims must be handled and what safety measures must be enacted, the state’s higher...