July 28, 2021
Remington Arms Co. on Tuesday offered to pay nearly $33 million to nine families to settle lawsuits claiming that its marketing of firearms contributed to the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, where 26 people died. The proposed …
July 27, 2021
Millers Mutual Insurance Promotes Hess to VP, Chief Information Officer Millers Mutual Insurance, a regional property/casualty insurance carrier, promoted Samuel Hess to vice president and chief information officer, effective immediately. As CIO, Hess will partner with Millers’ business units to …
July 27, 2021
Getaround Inc. will pay $950,000 to Washington, D.C. and revise its business practices after allegations that it misrepresented the benefits and nature of its car sharing services and failed to pay city sales taxes, officials said on Friday. The Softbank-backed …
July 27, 2021
A sand spit that protects part of the coastline straddling Fairfield and Bridgeport, Connecticut, is eroding and could leave the area vulnerable to flooding and other damage if measures aren’t taken to replenish it, a local environmental group says. A …
July 26, 2021
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio urged the city’s private sector businesses to institute vaccine requirements for their employees, saying the “limits of a purely voluntary system” have been reached. Speaking in his weekly appearance Friday on WNYC radio, …
July 26, 2021
A $2.3 million payment to a group of Black and Latino police officers to settle their workplace discrimination lawsuit against a Maryland police department is the latest effort toward reforms within the department, a county official said Thursday. Prince George’s …
July 26, 2021
A Massachusetts man is facing charges of arson and insurance fraud in connection with a fire that consumed a building he owned in Great Barrington. The building held apartments and a retail shop but was vacant when it went up …
July 23, 2021
Relation Insurance Services Inc. acquired the assets of The SIG Insurance Agencies. The partnership with SIG strengthens Relation’s existing capabilities and further expands the platform’s geographic presence in the Northeast. Headquartered in Connecticut with additional operations in New York, New …
July 23, 2021
The Pennsylvania Insurance Department (PID) is joining with other states around the country in conducting the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Climate Risk Disclosure Survey. The survey allows insurers to report on climate-related risks and opportunities and will provide …
July 23, 2021
Plaintiffs in a federal class action lawsuit could get payments and medical monitoring as part of a proposed $65.25 million settlement with three companies over chemical contamination of the water supply in an upstate New York village. The Times Union …