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Four Former TN Officers Plead Not Guilty to Civil Rights Charges in Nichols Death

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Four former Memphis police officers pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal civil rights charges in the violent beating and death of Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop nine months ago. Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley Desmond Mills …

Feds Tell Banks to Be on Alert for Payroll, Work Comp Premium Fraud Schemes

A US Treasury Department unit that investigates financial crimes has directed banks to send alerts when they come across suspicious activity that indicates a business is using check cashing companies to avoid payroll taxes and reduce workers’ compensation premiums. Such …

Orion180 Expands into Mississippi, Alabama

Orion180, one of the latest entrants into the Florida market, has also begun writing homeowners policies in noncoastal areas of Mississippi and Alabama. The policies will be written through admitted insurer Orion180 Select Insurance Co., the Melbourne, Florida-based firm said …

Former NFL Receiver Dies Two Weeks After Florida Construction Accident

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Former NFL receiver Mike Williams, who was injured in a construction accident two weeks ago and later put on a ventilator, died Tuesday, his agent said. He was 36. Williams, who played for the Tampa Bay …

New Florida Immigration Law Could Worsen Property Insurance Costs

If Florida insureds and insurers haven’t been pummeled enough by rising costs in recent years, they could soon see another factor that could hit them in the pocketbook. Florida’s tough new immigration law that took effect July 1, requiring more …

No Danger of Assessment: Florida Citizens Seeing Just 2,000 Claims from Idalia

Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has so far seen just about 2,000 claims from Hurricane Idalia, well below the threshold that would exhaust the carrier’s personal lines surplus and trigger a surcharge on policyholders, officials said this week. “There’s no …

Petitions to ‘Stop Cop City’ in Georgia in Legal Limbo After Court Rulings

ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta officials refused to verify tens of thousands of signatures submitted on Monday by activists trying to stop the construction of a police and firefighter training center, citing a recent court order. The activists had gathered jubilantly …

Slave Descendants Facing County Vote on Development of Georgia Island

DARIEN, Ga. (AP) — Descendants of enslaved people living on a Georgia island are watching anxiously Monday evening as county commissioners consider doubling the maximum size of houses that can be built in their tiny community of modest homes and …

Burns & Wilcox Acquires Alabama-based Environmental Underwriting Solutions

Burns & Wilcox, the wholesale insurance brokerage, has agreed to acquire Alabama-based Environmental Underwriting Solutions, a wholesale broker specializing in complex environmental exposures, from Insurance Office of America. The move, announced in a news release Tuesday, supports Burns & Wilcox’ …

Florida Copter Pilot Heard Bangs Before Fatal Crash into Apartment Building

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A pilot told investigators he heard a loud bang before a Florida medical rescue helicopter caught fire in flight last month, leading to a crash that killed a paramedic and a woman on the ground, …

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