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High Street Insurance Partners Adds Two Partner Agencies to Portfolio

Lower-middle-market private equity firm Huron Capital announced that its full-service insurance brokerage platform, High Street Insurance Partners, has acquired Tracy, Driscoll & Co. Inc. and Millennium Alliance Group LLC (MAG). Both agencies will support High Street’s strategic goals by expanding …

Rental Car Company to Pay $80K in Penalties, Implement Reforms Over Fraud Allegations

A discount car rental company operating out of Newark and JFK Airports has agreed to pay $80,000 in penalties, enter binding arbitration to resolve consumer complaints and change its policies and practices following New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal …

Alliant Insurance Services Hires Parker as Senior Vice President in New York

Alliant is continuing to grow its team in New York, recently adding Brennen Parker as senior vice president. Parker, who is based in Albany, N.Y., will design and deploy insurance solutions to address industry-specific risks for a growing base of …

Three Injured in Public Transit Bus Crash in Delaware

Three people were hurt when a public transit bus broke through a fence and a retaining wall, then landed in a parking lot after crashing into at least two other vehicles. The News Journal reports that a DART bus crashed …

Alliant Insurance Services Hires Cyber Risk Specialist Loftus in New York

Alliant Insurance Services has named cyber risk and insurance specialist John Loftus to work alongside Robert Horn in running Alliant’s cyber initiatives. Loftus is based in New York and maintains a network of insurance recovery attorneys, incident response experts, chief …

Lawsuit Claims EPA Has Failed to Enforce Chesapeake Bay Pollution Caps

The Environmental Protection Agency has failed to ensure that Pennsylvania and New York are doing enough to reduce pollution that flows from farms and cities into the Chesapeake Bay, according to a lawsuit filed on Thursday. The federal suit was …

Dunkin’ Donuts Parent Settles New York Cyber Attack Lawsuit, Agrees to Pay Fine

The parent of Dunkin’ Donuts on Tuesday agreed to upgrade its security protocols and pay $650,000 in fines and costs to settle a lawsuit by New York’s attorney general claiming it ignored cyber attacks that compromised the online accounts of …

Connecticut’s LL Global Hires Carroll to Lead National Accounts Team

LL Global Inc., the Windsor, Conn.-based, non-profit parent organization for trade associations LIMRA and LOMA, has hired John Carroll to lead its National Accounts team. He will report to Sean O’Donnell, senior vice president of LL Global Member Relations and …

Pennsylvania Authorities Arrest Alleged Fraud Network Participants

Pennsylvania authorities filed criminal charges on July 13 in Dauphin County against Kenneth Torres, Louis Torres, Ruth Negron-Acevedo, Juan Lopez-Barco and Philadelphia-based businesses EZ Multi-Services and Saul Auto Tags. According to the criminal complaints, the arrests stemmed from a multi-year …

Connecticut Sues Exxon for Allegedly Deceiving Consumers About Climate Change

Connecticut filed a lawsuit on Monday against oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp for misleading the public over the impacts of climate change, becoming the latest state to target the fossil fuel industry for violating state consumer protection laws. The state’s …

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