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California Insurance Co. Hits Commissioner with Anti-SLAPP Motion

California Insurance Co. has filed an “Anti-SLAPP” motion the company says is to protect its First Amendment rights in its ongoing legal battle with the California Department of Insurance and Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara. Anti-SLAPP laws (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public …

Starr’s Marine Division Launches Terminal Management System Loss Control Program

Starr Marine, a division of Starr Insurance Companies, has introduced a Terminal Management System (TMS) Assessment Program, designed to help Starr clients identify and reduce the risks unique to marine terminal operations of all sizes. The TMS program, developed in …

Power Outages from Zeta Impact Parts of the Southeast

Gusty winds buffeted western North Carolina on Sunday on the heels of Tropical Storm Zeta, leaving more than 11,000 utility customers without power, officials said. The National Weather Service posted a wind advisory for Asheville and other communities as gusts …

Investigation Into North Carolina Community College Cyberattack Ongoing

A data breach at a North Carolina community college may have affected many of its current and former students. The Greensboro News & Records reported last week that Guilford Technical Community College was hit with a ransomware cyberattack in mid-September. …

Hurricane Zeta Insured Loss Estimates Range from $1.5B to More than $4B

Insured losses from Hurricane Zeta — the fifth named storm to make landfall in Louisiana and the third hurricane to hit the state in the span of two months — will likely come in somewhere between $1.5 billion and $4.4 …

Starr Insurance Renews Partnership with Georgia State’s Institute for Insight

Starr Insurance Companies, a global insurance and financial services organization, has renewed its partnership with the Institute for Insight, a unit of Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business that brings together students, faculty and other partners to how identify …

Bayer Fails to Settle U.S. Roundup Lawsuits, Risking Restart of Federal Trials

Bayer AG failed to settle outstanding U.S. Roundup lawsuits by Monday, the deadline set by a judge who has said he’ll resume federal trials over claims the weedkiller caused consumers’ cancer. Ahead of its release of an earnings statement Tuesday, …

Houston’s HIIG Expands D&O Coverage for Public Companies; Adds Top Talent

Houston International Insurance Group Ltd. (HIIG) is expanding its management liability coverage offerings to include an excess public D&O (directors and officers) product. As part of this expansion, Peter Bujosa has joined the company as Public D&O lead. Bujosa previously …

U.S. Cities Prepare for Possible Election Unrest

Temporary extra fencing has been erected around the White House, plywood affixed to storefronts in Manhattan and the National Guard put on notice in Portland, Oregon, as U.S. cities braced for possible unrest on election day. “We don’t see specific …

Swedish Insurer Folksam Accidentally Leaks Private Data on 1 Million Customers

Sweden’s largest insurer, Folksam, accidentally leaked private data on about one million of its customers to a handful of the world’s largest technology companies, it said on Tuesday. Folksam, which insures 50% of Swedish homes and individuals, shared the data …

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