Monthly Archives: <span>November 2022</span>

Rokstone to Launch Ohio-Based Farm and Ranch Division

Rokstone Agriculture Risk Underwriters, the U.S. specialist agriculture division of the International Speciality (Re)Insurance MGA, Rokstone, has acquired two US market leading senior underwriters to launch a new specialist farm and ranch division based in Ohio. Joshua Lauth has been …

Private Flood Insurance Market Growing; NFIP ‘Adrift’: AM Best

Hurricane Ian may result in one of the largest losses in the history of the National Flood Insurance Program and add to its current $20.5 billion debt. According to a market segment report from AM Best, the projected range of …

Police: 4 Dead at Oklahoma Pot Farm Were ‘Executed,’ Chinese Citizens

LACEY, Okla. (AP) – Police have identified a suspect in the slayings of four people at an Oklahoma marijuana farm but said they aren’t releasing a name because doing so could put more people in danger. Authorities said the three …

Texas Judge Backs Full $49M Jury Award Against Alex Jones

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A Texas judge said last week she will not lower a nearly $50 million punishment against Alex Jones that a jury handed down earlier this year over the Infowars host spreading false conspiracy theories about the …

Iowa Jury Awards $27M Verdict in Misdiagnosed Flu Case

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – An Iowa jury has returned a $27 million verdict against a Des Moines medical clinic after a man with bacterial meningitis was misdiagnosed with the flu, suffered strokes and said he has been permanently injured. …

Indiana Man Awarded $25M in Lawsuit Against Ex-Cop

HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) – A federal jury has awarded a Gary man $25.5 million in his lawsuit alleging that a now-retired police officer violated his civil rights and deprived him of a fair trial in a case involving a 1980 …

Maryland AG Overrules Past Racially Discriminatory Opinions

Maryland’s attorney general announced that he has overruled opinions that upheld or applied unconstitutional racially discriminatory laws. In an opinion addressed to General Assembly leaders, Attorney General Brian Frosh formally overruled the opinions, saying that while changes in the law …

People Moves: Tysers Insurance Brokers Names Former Chubb Exec Kendrick as Chair; Tokio Marine HCC Int’l Promotes Herrero as CEO for European Operation

Tysers Insurance Brokers Names Former Chubb Exec Kendrick as Chair Tysers Insurance Brokers, the London-based broker, announced the appointment of Andrew Kendrick as non-executive chair. The appointment is effective Dec. 1, 2022, and subject to regulatory approval. Peter Haynes will …

Wife of Man Killed by Police on Arizona Settles Suit for $8M

The widow of an unarmed Texas man fatally shot by police outside his suburban Phoenix hotel room in 2016 has agreed to settle her wrongful death lawsuit. A notice of settlement filed Tuesday in federal court in Arizona shows that …

Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Bulen & Associates in California

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquired Murrieta, California-based Bulen & Associates Insurance Services Inc. Lisa Mosby and her team will remain in their current location under the direction of Scott Firestone, head of Gallagher’s Southwest region retail property/casualty brokerage operations. …