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Trump Denied Immunity Against US Election Subversion Charges
Dec 3 2023 // Donald Trump is not entitled to absolute presidential immunity against criminal charges over his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, a federal judge ruled, saying the office doesn’t come with a...
US Senate Committee Wants Investigation Into Florida Citizens’ Loss Reserves
Dec 1 2023 // The chairman of the U.S. Senate’s Budget Committee has begun an investigation into Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. and how the state-created insurer plans to address potential underwriting losses...
US Warns of Growing Threats to Ships Sailing Through Red Sea
Nov 28 2023 // A spate of attacks on merchant shipping near Yemen and Somalia, likely triggered by the war in Gaza, have prompted the US to warn vessel operators to be extra careful when navigating the region. On Nov. 19, Houthis seized...
US, Britain, Other Countries Ink Agreement to Make AI ‘Secure by Design’
Nov 28 2023 // The United States, Britain and more than a dozen other countries on Sunday unveiled what a senior U.S. official described as the first detailed international agreement on how to keep artificial intelligence safe from rogue...
US Labor Board Files Complaint Against Mozilla for Refusing to Hire Apple Activist
Nov 27 2023 // When Cher Scarlett began speaking up about labor issues at Apple Inc., she knew she was at risk of losing her software engineering job, but was confident she could find another. Yet two years after her departure from the...
Reinsurers Cautious About US Regional Property Cat as Storm Losses Rise: Gallagher Re
Nov 22 2023 // After a costly 2023 severe convective storm season in the US, reinsurers underwriting in the regional property catastrophe market are skeptical about providing frequency cover, but their overall appetite remains healthy,...
France, US Plan to Seek Ban on Private Finance to Coal-Fired Plants at COP28: Sources
Nov 22 2023 // France, backed by the United States, plans to seek a halt to private financing for coal-based power plants during the U.N. climate conference later this month, three sources familiar with the deliberations told Reuters in...
US Is Seeking More Than $4 Billion From Binance to End Case
Nov 21 2023 // The US Justice Department is seeking more than $4 billion from Binance Holdings Ltd. as part of a proposed resolution of a years-long investigation into the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. Negotiations...
People Moves: Hagerty to Head US Retail Property at Everest Insurance; AIG Hires Navagamuwa as Chief Information Officer
Nov 20 2023 // Roshan Navagamuwa joins American International Group, Inc. (AIG) in December as executive vice president and chief information officer, effective January 1, 2024. AIG is headquartered in New York, N.Y. Navagamuwa joins AIG...
Global Insurance Prices Continue to Stabilize in Q3 as US Cyber Premiums Drop: Marsh
Nov 20 2023 // Global commercial insurance prices increased 3% in the third quarter of 2023, the same as the prior quarter, according to the Global Insurance Market Index released by insurance broker Marsh, a business of Marsh...
Companies May Be Employers of Contract, Franchise Workers Under US Labor Rule
Nov 20 2023 // A U.S. labor board on Oct. 26 issued a final rule making it easier for workers and unions to hold companies liable for labor law violations by their franchisees and contractors, reviving an Obama-era standard heavily...
Tankers, Newly Sanctioned by US, Supplied Russian Oil to India
Nov 17 2023 // Three oil tankers, newly sanctioned by Washington, regularly shipped Sokol crude from Russia’s Far East to Indian Oil Corp, the country’s top refiner, in recent months, according to shiptracking data from LSEG,...
US Sanctions Maritime Companies, Vessels for Shipping Oil Above Russian Price Cap
Nov 17 2023 // The U.S. on Thursday imposed sanctions on maritime companies and vessels for shipping Russian oil sold above the G7’s price cap, as Washington seeks to close loopholes in the mechanism designed to punish Moscow for...
US Climate Report Shows Rising Temps, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Headed Down
Nov 17 2023 // A new national climate report that shows temperatures rapidly rising, but it also has some good news for the U.S. The Fifth National Climate Assessment, which analyzes the impacts of climate and global change in the U.S.,...
US Political Violence Driven by New Breed of ‘Grab-Bag’ Extremists
Nov 16 2023 // Before he committed mass murder in Colorado late last year, Anderson Lee Aldrich was a lively presence among a group of friends who regularly assembled online for hours to chat, play video games and trade internet...
Staffing Shortages, Outdated Facilities Threaten US Air Safety
Nov 16 2023 // An independent U.S. aviation review team called on Wednesday for “urgent action” to prevent plane crashes, and made a series of recommendations to boost safety after a series of close calls involving passenger...
EWG Report Finds Rapidly Rising Crop Payouts As Climate Change Hits U.S. Agriculture
Nov 15 2023 // Drought, heat, hail, rain and freezing temperatures – the five horsemen of crop insurance. A new report from EWG found that crop insurance payouts for the top five weather-related losses totaled over $118.7 billion...
US SEC Enforcement Collected Nearly $5B in Financial Remedies Last Year
Nov 15 2023 // The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed 784 enforcement actions in the fiscal year that ran through September, garnering $4.95 billion in penalties and other financial remedies, the agency said in a...
NOAA: U.S. Withstands Record 25 Disasters in 2023
Nov 15 2023 // Another billion-dollar disaster was confirmed in October, bringing the total to a record 25 such disasters in the first 10 months — the largest number of disasters for any year since NOAA began tracking the events. These...
People Moves: Balch Now President of Berkley Technology Underwriters; Lieberman to Lead Lockton’s US Financial Services Claims
Nov 15 2023 // W.R. Berkley Corporation Names Balch President of Berkley Technology Underwriters W.R. Berkley Corporation, headquartered in Greenwich, Conn., appointed Christopher H. Balch as president of Berkley Technology Underwriters,...
