May 17, 2022
U.S. traffic deaths jumped 10.5% in 2021 to 42,915 – the highest number killed on American roads in a single-year since 2005, U.S. regulators said Tuesday in its preliminary estimate. The yearly increase is the highest reported since the National …
May 17, 2022
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation held hearings Tuesday on major rate increases from three more property insurers: Florida Farm Bureau, First Floridian, and Kin Interinsurance Network. The Kin and First Floridian hearings began Tuesday morning but the Farm Bureau …
May 17, 2022
Lawmakers investigating the deadly arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene voted unanimously last week to hold the former head of the Louisiana State Police in contempt for defying a subpoena and refusing to turn over the handwritten journals he kept …
May 17, 2022
Louisiana has begun construction of a $67 million project to create miles (kilometers) of oyster reefs to protect the shoreline in a New Orleans suburb. Money for the Biloxi Marsh Living Shoreline comes from an $8.8 billion restoration fund set …
May 17, 2022
Idaho officials announced a $119 million settlement with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and three major distributors over their role in the opioid addiction crisis. Republican Gov. Brad Little and Republican Attorney General Lawrence Wasden said it’s the second-largest consumer settlement …
May 17, 2022
Four more cases of monkeypox have been identified in Britain, bringing the total to seven, according to the UK Health Security Agency. Health authorities are working to find links between the latest four cases, three of which are in London. …
May 17, 2022
Federal law may prohibit states from regulating prices charged to insurers by air ambulance providers, but that doesn’t absolve the Workers’ Compensation Board of its responsibility to determine whether the billed charges are “usual and customary,” a split Kansas Supreme …
May 17, 2022
Lightning sparked a few new small fires in the drought-stricken Southwest Monday but the thunderstorms brought welcome rain to the monster blaze that’s been churning for a month in New Mexico and is now the state’s largest in recorded history. …
May 17, 2022
A federal grand jury has indicted the operator and six management officials of a Cambria, Wisconsin corn mill – where a May 31, 2017, explosion killed five workers and injured 15 others – on nine criminal counts, including two counts …
May 17, 2022
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Liberty Mutual Re and SiriusPoint. A summary of these new hires follows here. Liberty Mutual Re Hires AXA XL’s Sharman for Casualty Reinsurance Liberty Mutual Re (LM Re), part of Liberty …