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Two Killed After Leak at Texas Oil Refinery Worked for Maintenance Subcontractor

DEER PARK, Texas (AP) — Two employees killed when hydrogen sulfide leaked at a Houston-area oil refinery were employees of a subcontractor performing maintenance work, the director of Pemex, Mexico’s state-owned oil company that operates the plant, said Friday. The …

GSK Sues Moderna for Patent Infringement Over COVID, RSV Vaccines

British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline sued Moderna in federal court in Delaware on Tuesday, accusing its American rival of violating GSK’s patent rights in messenger RNA (mRNA) technology with its blockbuster COVID-19 vaccine Spikevax. According to the two lawsuits, Moderna’s lipid nanoparticles …

Markets/Coverages: QBE to Launch US Inland Marine With 3 Hires From AIG; Next Now Offers Standalone Pro Liability for Consultants

QBE International Markets will launch a new U.S. inland marine offering by 2025 across all 50 states as it expands its specialty product suite. The team and product will be added to QBE International Market’s growing ocean marine and energy …

Progressive More Than Doubles Q3 Net Income Despite Helene Losses

Progressive Corp. said it’s third quarter 2024 net income more than doubled compared to last year, to about $2.3 billion. Progressive said it took a hit of $563 million in catastrophe losses in September from Hurricane Helene. Breaking down the …

Floridians Cleaning up From Milton Hampered by Widespread Fuel Shortage

CORTEZ, Fla. (AP) — Floridians recovering from Hurricane Milton, many of whom were journeying home after fleeing hundreds of miles to escape the storm, spent much of Saturday searching for gas as a fuel shortage gripped the state. In St. …

Volunteers Bring Solar Power to Hurricane Helene Disaster Zone

Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Helene downed power lines and washed out roads all over North Carolina’s mountains, the constant din of a gas-powered generator is getting to be too much for Bobby Renfro. It’s difficult to hear the nurses, …

Ardonagh Completes A$2.3B Acquisition of Australia’s PSC Insurance Group

The Ardonagh Group, the London-based independent insurance distribution platform, announced it has completed the A$2.3 billion (US$1.6 billion) acquisition of PSC Insurance Group Ltd. The completion of the acquisition in the APAC region sees PSC’s operations in Australia and New …

Update: Milton’s 152,000 Claims So Far Mean New Pressure on Reinsurance, Rate Hikes

Property Insurance claims from Hurricane Milton had topped more than 152,180 by Tuesday, with some $1.9 billion in estimated insured losses. That’s already more than the claims and losses reported for Helene, which made landfall in Florida two weeks earlier, …

Vermont Approves Union Mutual Affiliation With N&D Group

Vermont’s insurance regulator has approved an affiliation of Union Mutual Fire Insurance Co. with the Massachusetts-based mutual insurer Norfolk & Dedham Group. Under the now-approved “acquisition of control” transaction that was proposed in April, Union Mutual and its wholly owned …

KCC Expects Private Insured Losses of $36B From Hurricane Milton

Florida’s Hurricane Milton caused private insured losses of about $36 billion, estimated catastrophe modeler Karen Clark & Co. The estimate includes losses from wind, storms surge, and inland flooding to personal, commercial and industrial properties and vehicles, as well as …

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