Officials of a Georgia city have offered a $350,000 legal settlement to a Black man injured last year when a police officer violently slammed him in the ground, later saying he mistakenly believed the man had an outstanding arrest warrant. …
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave Microsoft Corp.’s LinkedIn Corp. another chance to try to stop rival hiQ Labs Inc. from harvesting personal data from the professional networking platform’s public profiles – a practice that LinkedIn contends threatens the …
NFP and Vault have launched the NFP/Vault Group Excess Program to provide select, qualifying employers and wealth management organizations an opportunity to expand their scope of benefits and offerings and extend to their high net worth (HNW) executives and clients …
Reinsurance broker Acrisure Re has launched a London-based cyber division in partnership with cyber risk modeler Kovrr. Headed by Cyber Practice Leader Tom Quy, the new division will offer the market a fresh perspective on cyber reinsurance “by coupling the …
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will release more than $1 billion in payments over the next several weeks starting June 15 for agricultural producers who suffered losses in 2018 and 2019 natural disasters. The payments are going to farmers …
This wrap-up of international People Moves details recent appointments at Liberty Specialty Markets and underwriting agency DUAL, which is part of Howden Group Holdings. A summary of these new hires follows here. Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), part of Liberty Mutual …
The Department of Labor has promulgated an emergency temporary standard (ETS) designed to protect healthcare workers but did not extend the rule to other high-risk employment such as manufacturing, grocery or high-volume retail as some labor groups had urged The …
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka is seeking an interim claim of $40 million from the operator of a fire-ravaged cargo ship to cover part of the cost of fighting the blaze, officials said Saturday. Sri Lanka’s attorney general has …
U.S. government employees should not be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before returning to their workplace or made to disclose their vaccination status, according to guidance released by the Biden administration on Thursday. Workers may voluntarily disclose this information …
Intact Financial Corp. and Tryg A/S have entered into an agreement to sell Codan Forsikring A/S’s Danish business to Alm. Brand A/S Group for about 12.6 billion Danish kroner (approximately $2.52 billion) in cash. The agreement has been made with …
