Insurance broker Willis Towers Watson announced the launch of a dedicated risk forum for the ports and terminals industry. With ports and terminals client members worldwide, as well as risk forum specialists from Willis Towers Watson, the forum acts as …
A simmering threat of sanctions against the operator of the $11 billion Nord Stream 2 pipeline risks shutting off cover from European insurers for the politically sensitive project to bring Russian gas directly to Germany. Kremlin-backed energy giant Gazprom leads …
Howden, the international re/insurance broker, announced it has acquired Ross Insurance Group, a commercial broker servicing corporate and technology clients, as it continues to invest in expertise for its UK business. Ross Insurance Group currently offers a broad range of …
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Caulfield, Victoria-based Sound Insurance Services in Australia. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2011 by Simon Feldman and Morris Alessi, Sound Insurance is a retail property/casualty broker serving …
Houston, Texas-based Kirby Inland Marine LP has agreed to pay $15.3 million in damages and assessment costs under the Oil Pollution Act to resolve federal and state claims for injuries to natural resources resulting from an oil spill from a …
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer abandoned a lawsuit Tuesday, Nov. 30 aimed at shutting down an oil pipeline that runs through part of the Great Lakes but said the state would continue pursuing a separate case with the same goal. Whitmer’s …
A Douglas County jury has awarded $26.1 million to a Sarpy County family who sued Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha after their child was sent home following an accidental fall and then suffered seizures that left her permanently …
The U.S. Justice Department and survivors of a 2017 Texas church massacre are at odds over how much the Air Force should pay in compensation for failing to flag a conviction that might have prevented the gunman from legally buying …
An Alabama woman who says she was falsely arrested for shoplifting at a Walmart and then threatened by the company after her case was dismissed has been awarded $2.1 million in damages. A Mobile County jury on Monday ruled in …
An appellate court’s job is to determine whether evidence supports the workers’ compensation judge’s decision, not to weigh information about arguments that have already been rejected, Florida’s 1st District Court of Appeals said Wednesday. In Ranger Construction Industries and Charter …
