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Feb 21 2022 // This issue reveals data from Insurance Journal’s annual Agency Salary Survey. While maintaining competitive compensation packages is a critical step in attracting and retaining the best talent, employers must not...
Feb 21 2022 // Great American Insurance Group has promoted Jason M. Cohen to senior vice president and Julie F. Kadnar to divisional group president within its Property & Casualty Group.In 2006, Cohen joined the company as divisional...
Feb 18 2022 // The next head of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will face challenges overseeing Boeing Co. and a series of reforms mandated by Congress in the wake of two fatal 737 MAX crashes.The job opened late Wednesday...
Feb 18 2022 // German insurer and asset manager Allianz ALVG.DE on Thursday said it would set aside 3.7 billion euros ($4.20 billion) to deal with investigations and lawsuits resulting from the collapse of a multi-billion-euro set of...
Feb 18 2022 // The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Thursday it is opening a formal investigation into 416,000 Tesla vehicles over reports of unexpected brake activation tied to its driver assistance system...
Feb 17 2022 // Climate change could result in the financial toll of flooding rising by more than a quarter in the U.S. by 2050, according to new research.The research, led by the University of Bristol and published in Nature Climate...
Feb 17 2022 // Farms that raise turkeys and chickens for meat and eggs are on high alert and taking steps to increase biosecurity, fearing a repeat of a widespread bird flu outbreak in 2015 that killed 50 million birds across 15 states...
Feb 17 2022 // By the thousands, Americans have been seeking religious exemptions in order to circumvent COVID-19 vaccine mandates, but generally they are doing so without the encouragement of major denominations and prominent religious...
Feb 17 2022 // Tesla Inc. TSLA.O and its Chief Executive Elon Musk on Thursday accused the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of harassing them with an “endless” and “unrelenting” investigation to...
Feb 17 2022 // Cryptocurrencies and deep-fake technology are sending chills throughout the U.S. government, with cyber crooks embracing digital innovations so rapidly that law enforcement can barely keep up, according to the Federal...
Feb 17 2022 // Asta, the third-party managing agent at Lloyd’s, and JPO Consulting, announced the launch of ARTes Specialty Ltd., an independent UK-based managing general agent (MGA), wholly owned by its founders and...
Feb 16 2022 // Zurich Names Martino Regional Vice President For Midwest Region of U.S. Middle Market UnitZurich North America has named Trey Martino as regional Vice President for the Midwest region of its U.S. middle market unit. He...
Feb 16 2022 // Ratings for the U.S. property/casualty industry returned to pre-pandemic levels with some companies strengthening balance sheets and improving operating results, said financial strength rating agency AM Best.In 2021 the...
Feb 16 2022 // Argo Group International Holdings Ltd., the Bermuda-based underwriter of specialty insurance products, announced the completion of the sale of Argo Seguros Brasil S.A. to Spice Private Equity Ltd.“The closing of this...
Feb 16 2022 // The nation’s top public health agency has proposed changing — and in some instances, softening — guidelines for U.S. doctors prescribing oxycodone and other opioid painkillers.The Centers for Disease Control and...
Feb 16 2022 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tvThe cybersecurity and insurance industries have been talking about prioritizing diversity, equity and inclusion for a while, but Larry Whiteside, co-founder and president of Cyversity, says...
Feb 16 2022 // President Joe Biden couldn’t have been more blunt about the risks of cyberattacks spinning out of control. “If we end up in a war, a real shooting war with a major power, it’s going to be as a consequence...
Feb 16 2022 // Thick smoke billowed from the vacant, crumbling St. Louis house, but Benjamin Polson knew homeless people might be inside taking refuge from the January chill.So the 33-year-old firefighter went in. It cost him his life....
Feb 15 2022 // A U.S. federal jury on Tuesday ruled against Sarah Palin in her lawsuit accusing the New York Times of defaming her in a 2017 editorial that incorrectly linked her to a mass shooting, after the presiding judge said he...
Feb 15 2022 // Remington Arms will pay $73 million to the families of five adults and four children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, the families said on Tuesday, the first time a gunmaker has been held responsible...