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Howden Buys Spanish Broker March Risk Solutions, Forms Alliance With Banca March

Howden, the London-based international insurance broker, announced it has acquired 100% of Spanish insurance broker March Risk Solutions (March R.S.) and has signed an alliance with Banca March, March R.S.’s parent company and one of the region’s pre-eminent investment banks. …

Emergency Berm Said to Have Helped Florida Beaches During Ian, Nicole

While crews finish final details of a widespread St. Johns County beach repair project, county officials are considering work next year to correct erosion from Tropical Storms Ian and Nicole. “In five to six months, we could see construction happening,” …

Alabama Airport Worker Killed After Being Caught in Jet Engine

An airport worker in Montgomery, Alabama, was killed Saturday when he was sucked into the engine of a plane. Local and state news reports said the ground crew worker, whose name has not been released, was ingested into the engine …

Banks Seek to Quash Women’s Lawsuits in Jeffrey Epstein Case

Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Chase are asking a federal court to throw out lawsuits that claim the big banks should have seen evidence of sex trafficking by Jeffrey Epstein, the high-flying financier who killed himself in jail while facing criminal …

Another Woman Files Sex Abuse Suit Against Cosby, NBC Under New York Extension

A woman who alleges Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1986 sued the comedian-actor, NBCUniversal and other companies Friday in New York, where five other women filed a similar lawsuit earlier this month. Stacey Pinkerton says she was …

U.S. Sues AmerisourceBergen, Says Distributor Helped Ignite Opioid Epidemic

The U.S. government filed a lawsuit accusing AmerisourceBergen Corp., one of the nation’s largest drug distributors, of helping ignite the nation’s deadly opioid epidemic by failing to report hundreds of thousands of suspicious orders of prescription painkillers. In a Dec. …

Boy Scouts, Catholic Dioceses Find Haven From Sex Abuse Suits in Bankruptcy

Lawmakers around the United States have tried to grant justice to victims of decades-old incidents of child sexual abuse by giving them extra time to file lawsuits. Now some of the defendants in these cases, including church and youth organizations, …

New Georgia Laws: Mental Health Reporting by Insurers, Permitting for Food Trucks

Parts of a law overhauling insurance coverage for mental health, new ways for parents to challenge materials used in schools and a tax credit for donating to police are among new laws taking effect Sunday in Georgia. Most Georgia laws …

Court Asked to Enforce $3 Million Settlement of Suit Over Virginia Police Shooting

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Several parties to a wrongful death lawsuit over the fatal police shooting of a Black man on the Virginia Beach oceanfront last year have asked a judge to enforce the $3 million settlement agreement announced …

Suit Alleges Agency Liable in Accidental Child Shooting Due to Home Office

The parents of a Maine three-year old boy who accidentally shot himself with a loaded pistol filed a negligence suit against the owner of a Vermont home where the boy found the gun while on a visit. The boy’s family …

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