The maker of the assault-style rifle used in the 2012 mass shooting at a Newtown, Connecticut, school asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to overturn a court ruling that allowed families of the victims to sue the company over …
After worrying for years about the foundations crumbling beneath their houses, hundreds of suburban homeowners in a large swath of central Connecticut are getting help to salvage property that had been doomed by a bad batch of concrete. The homes …
Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired Reiff & Associates, a full service brokerage firm focused on risk and insurance for companies in the entertainment industry. Founded in 1983 and based in New …
A claim for damages from Superstorm Sandy that has been rejected several times by the state of New Jersey got another chance from a divided state Supreme Court on Monday. In a 4-3 ruling, the high court said an arbitrator …
The Georgia Department of Public Health says it’s probable there are 55 more cases in the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak linked to the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel. News outlets report the agency hadn’t confirmed the cases in the lab Monday but the …
A group of West Virginia lawmakers want control of a recent $37 million opioid settlement with the drug distributor McKesson. Members of the House of Delegates on Monday asked the attorney general to let the legislature to divvy up the …
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced that its risk management services subsidiary, Gallagher Bassett Services Inc., has acquired Fullerton Health Corporate Services from Fullerton Health Australia, which is part of Singapore-based Fullerton Healthcare Group. Terms of the transaction were not …
Hundreds of French farmers who signed up for specialist policies aimed at insuring against freak weather are getting swift payouts which could help them recover from heatwaves and prolonged droughts that hit parts of the country. The payments underline how …
World Bank funding instruments issued to help emerging countries swiftly tackle pandemics have come under the spotlight after the latest deadly Ebola outbreak has yet to trigger a payout. Following the 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak that ravaged Sierra Leone, Guinea and …
The Bank of England for the first time is asking British insurers to gauge how global warming might impact the value of the stocks and bonds they hold — and its potential to upend financial markets. The central bank, which …
