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Illinois Trucking Company to Pay $259K Over Clean Water Act Violations

Nov 2 2022 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement with Petroff Trucking Company, Inc., for an alleged violation of the Clean Water Act. The company has agreed to purchase and secure 15.5 wetland acres to...

Insurers Stop Offering Cargo Insurance for Ukraine Grains Shipments: Sources

Nov 2 2022 // Insurers are no longer offering new cargo insurance cover for shipments out of Ukraine through a U.N.-backed safe corridor after Russia suspended its participation, industry sources said on Tuesday.An export deal, agreed...

Markets/Coverages: Liberty Specialty Markets Launches Project Cargo Consortium at Lloyd’s

Oct 13 2022 // Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance’s Global Risk Solutions division, announced the launch of a new Lloyd’s facility for the London market.The Liberty Project Cargo Consortium...

An End of an Era: AB 5 and What It Means for Motor Carriers and Their Independent Contractors

Oct 7 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. For the last two-and-a-half years the entire nation has been tracking California Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5), which changed the definition of who is considered an...

People Moves: Arch Ins. Int’l Names Lockton’s Stallard as Cargo U/W; Beazley Hires van Ommeren as Financial Lines U/W; Aon Reinsurance Taps Sompo’s Shedden for Analytics

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...

Pay-As-You-Go Cargo MGA Closing Insurance Protection Gap for Shippers

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...

Insurers Ask Court in New York to Seize, Sell Vessel to Pay $39M in Cargo Losses

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...

RB Jones Acquires ‘Smart’ Ocean Cargo Business From Corvus

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...

Georgia Shrimpers, Businesses File Suits Over Capsized Cargo Ship Pollution

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...

Illinois Trucking Repair Company Fined $326,000 for Workplace Hazards

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...

Cargo Ship Beached After Collision in Bay of Gibraltar

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...

Trucker Whose Dislodged Tire Killed Trooper Fined $15,000

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...

Japanese Chemical Tanker Crashes Into Cargo Ship off Coast of Japan

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...

Wife of Former Texas Trucking Magnate Charged in Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme

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...

London Insurance Sector Readies $50M Ukraine Grain Cargo Cover

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...

Freight Broker Sues Liberty Mutual for ‘Excessive’ Work Comp Premiums

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...

Markets/Coverages: Openly’s New Homeowners Carrier; Neptune Flood, SIAA Partnership; MiKargo247 Launches for Per-Load Freight

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...

Digital Trucking MGA Koffie Raises $11M, Eyes Expansion to 10 States

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...

Crashed Ukrainian Cargo Plane Carried Shipment of Ammunition for Bangladesh

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...

California Throws 70K Truckers in Gig-Work Legal Limbo, Risking Supply Chains

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...