Most Popular Civil Unrest Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Civil Unrest Topic Page over the last year.
#1 Wall Street Pushes Back After Activists Escalate Protests
Jul 15 2024 // Against a backdrop of intensifying climate protests targeting Wall Street, the heavyweights of US finance are pushing back against what they characterize as a fundamentally flawed debate. For more than a month now, scores...
#2 Predictive Model Delivers Insights as Insurers, Reinsurers Brace for More Civil Unrest
Oct 9 2024 // Executive Summary: Insurers and reinsurers are responding to heightened risks of civil unrest with better calculations of their probable maximum losses, careful risk pricing, clear contractual wordings, and by using new...
#3 Rising Civil Unrest, Political Violence Remain Top 10 Risk for Global Businesses: Allianz
Apr 10 2025 // Soaring levels of civil unrest and political violence are a key concern for businesses of all sizes as well as for their insurers, according to a report published by Allianz Commercial. The impact of civil unrest or...
#4 Scheffler, Climate Protesters, Lightning Strike at Travelers Golf Championship
Jun 24 2024 // A weather delay, a climate protest, a lightning strike and Tom Kim could not deter Scottie Scheffler on his mission to win the PGA Tour’s Travelers Championship at the TPC River Highlands course. Kim made a birdie...
#5 Cops Vow to Avert Risk of Havoc From DNC Protesters Converging in Chicago
Aug 20 2024 // Security is always tight at Chicago’s Accenture Tower, a skyscraper that connects to a downtown transportation hub and houses the Israeli consulate. This week it will resemble a fortress. Located less than two miles...
#6 States Worried About Election Unrest Take Security Precautions
Nov 5 2024 // A security fence rings a Las Vegas building where a Nevada county tabulates votes. An Arizona sheriff has his department on high alert to guard against potential violence with drones and snipers on standby. The National...
#7 Insured Losses From UK Riots Will Be Manageable, With Claims Below £250M: Report
Aug 13 2024 // Insured losses from recent riots in the United Kingdom are expected to remain at manageable levels with a limited impact on insurers’ credit profiles, according to credit agency Morningstar DBRS, in a market...
#8 Texas Manufacturer to Pay $35K for Denying Job to Applicant with Opioid Use Disorder
May 23 2024 // The Modern Group, Ltd. (TMG), headquartered in Beaumont, Texas, and one of its subsidiaries, Dragon Rig Sales and Service, LLC, a manufacturing and service company which builds oilfield service equipment for energy and...
#9 Texas Assisted Living Facility Sued for Firing Worker With Sleep Disorder
Aug 2 2024 // VibraLife of Katy, LLC, a rehabilitation and assisted living facility in Katy, Texas, violated federal law when it denied an employee an accommodation for her sleep disorder and then fired her, the U.S. Equal Employment...
#10 Atlanta City Council Approves $2M for Students Pulled from Car During Protest
Jul 3 2024 // ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta City Council has approved the payment of a settlement of $2 million to two college students who were shocked with Tasers and pulled from a car while they were stuck in downtown traffic caused...
#11 West Texas Truckers Protest Low Wages, Working Conditions
Jul 3 2024 // MONAHANS — Low wages and working conditions that truck drivers describe as degrading have sparked an organized labor movement in the Permian Basin, a historic first for the nation’s busiest oil field. About a dozen...
#12 UK Revisits Social Media Regulation After Far-Right Riots
Aug 12 2024 // The British government is considering changes to the Online Safety Act designed to regulate social media companies, following a week of racist rioting driven by false information online. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT The act,...
#13 Judge: Protestors Can’t March Through Security Zone at Republican National Convention
Jul 11 2024 // MADISON, Wis . (AP) — A federal judge ruled Monday that protesters can’t march through a security zone at the Republican National Convention, handing a defeat to liberals who had pushed to have closer access to...
#14 Jury Awards $700k to Seattle Protesters Jailed for Anti-Police Slogans on Barricade
Jun 27 2024 // Four protesters who were jailed for writing anti-police graffiti in chalk on a temporary barricade near a Seattle police precinct have been awarded nearly $700,000 after a federal court jury decided their civil rights were...
#15 Judge Awards North Dakota Nearly $28M Over Dakota Access Pipeline Protests
Apr 25 2025 // A federal judge on Wednesday found the state of North Dakota entitled to nearly $28 million for responding to protests of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in 2016 and 2017 — a win for the state in its multiyear effort to...
#16 Texas Assisted Living Facility Fined for Firing Nurse With Sleep Disorder
Nov 1 2024 // VibraLife of Katy, LLC, a rehabilitation and assisted living facility in Katy, Texas, will pay $80,000 and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) disability discrimination and...
#17 Judge Tosses Suit Alleging Excessive Force During Dakota Access Pipeline Protest
Aug 9 2024 // BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge in North Dakota has thrown out the remainder of a lawsuit by an Arizona man who alleged excessive force was used against him when he was protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline. In...
#18 Trial Begins in Texas Pipeline Company’s Lawsuit Over Dakota Access Pipeline Protests
Feb 28 2025 // An attorney for a Texas pipeline company said Wednesday at trial that he will prove various Greenpeace entities coordinated delays and disruptions of a controversial oil pipeline’s construction in North Dakota, and...
#19 Louisiana Community Protest Approval Process for Ammonia Plant
Nov 8 2024 // ELKINSVILLE, La. (AP) — A dispute over a planned ammonia plant near a historic Black town in southeastern Louisiana ratcheted up a notch with a challenge to the state’s approval process. The battle over the plant...
#20 Appeals Court Returns Part of Dakota Access Pipeline Protestor’s Lawsuit
Sep 30 2024 // BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — An appeals court has sent back part of a lawsuit brought by a protester of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, who alleged excessive force by law enforcement officers. Eric Poemoceah, of Oklahoma, filed...
