All the headlines from our Trucking Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 6 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Arch Insurance International, Beazley, and Aon Reinsurance Solutions.A summary of these new hires follows here. Arch Insurance Int’l Names...
Oct 4 2022 // After many years working as a freight and logistics broker in the London market, Johnny McCord understood where the freight industry’s “pain points” were and thought technology and artificial intelligence...
Sep 29 2022 // More than 30 insurers that have paid an estimated $39 million in lost cargo claims, along with cargo owners without insurance, have asked the courts to seize and sell the Japanese vessel ONE Apus to cover their claims.The...
Sep 21 2022 // Specialty risk broker RB Jones announced its marine and energy division has acquired the Smart Cargo Insurance business from Boston-based managing general agent Corvus Insurance.The Corvus ocean cargo product offers an...
Sep 13 2022 // Fishermen, shrimpers and business owners dependent on coastal tourism have filed lawsuits over pollution caused when a cargo ship capsized off the Georgia coast in 2019.The two federal lawsuits filed last week in Georgia...
Sep 9 2022 // A 48-year-old worker entered a tanker-trailer in Lemont, Illinois to inspect it as part of an annual U.S. Department of Transportation requirement and was overcome from exposure to bleach and chlorine gas. The worker was...
Sep 1 2022 // Gibraltar authorities said Tuesday that a cargo ship has been beached to prevent it from sinking after it collided with a liquefied natural gas carrier in the Bay of Gibraltar.A government spokesman said that the situation...
Aug 23 2022 // A truck driver who admitted responsibility in the death of a Maine state police detective who was struck by a dislodged tire has been ordered to pay $15,000 in fines.Scott Willett of Patten, will also have his...
Aug 22 2022 // A Japanese chemical tanker ship crashed into a cargo ship off the coast of southwestern Japan, the coast guard said Saturday.No one was injured among the six Japanese crew members aboard the tanker Ryoshinmaru and 14...
Aug 12 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) announced last week that Francis Hall, the former co-owner of Bill Hall Jr. Trucking turned herself into Bexar County authorities. There had...
Aug 4 2022 // The London insurance sector is preparing to cover Ukrainian grains and fertilizer shipments through a secure corridor, voyages that may need up to $50 million of insurance cover per cargo, industry sources involved said on...
Jul 29 2022 // An Illinois freight broker has filed a lawsuit accusing Liberty Mutual of overcharging it by demanding payment of workers’ compensation premiums for independent contractors who are ineligible for benefits.Virnich...
Jul 26 2022 // Openly Starts Openly Insurance Company, a Licensed Homeowners Insurance CarrierOpenly announced the launch of the Openly Insurance Company, a homeowners insurance carrier licensed in 17 states. Openly had formerly...
Jul 20 2022 // A Brooklyn, New York-based managing general agency for the trucking and transportation sector has closed an $11 million Series A funding round, bringing the company’s total funding to date to $15.5 million.The round...
Jul 18 2022 // Ukrainian foreign ministry officials on Sunday traveled to inspect the site where a Ukrainian cargo plane crashed overnight in northern Greece, en route from Serbia to Jordan and on to Bangladesh.The envoys will help local...
Jul 11 2022 // About 70,000 truck owner-operators who form the bedrock of California’s transport industry are in limbo as state-level labor rules start applying to them, creating another choke point in stressed US supply...
Jul 8 2022 // Lloyd’s Europe reports the appointment of Bertrand Heugues as chief underwriting officer effective 14 July.He will be responsible for overseeing underwriting, delegated authority management, claims and the...
Jun 20 2022 // Russia’s state-run Sovcomflot has insured all its cargo ships with Russian insurers and the cover meets international rules, the chief executive said, after Western insurers withdrew cover.Western insurers halted...
Jun 7 2022 // InsurTech MGA Loadsure announced the launch of its new smart annual cargo product, Cargo Plus.The new offering is an annualized ocean cargo product that will deliver the financial convenience of a pay-as-you-go policy with...
May 27 2022 // The United States has confiscated Iranian oil held on a Russian-operated ship near Greece and will send the cargo to the United States aboard another vessel, three sources familiar with the matter said.It was unclear...