Urban Flooding Is On The Rise, So What Can Be Done? August 6, 2020 By Lisa Miller As hurricane season heats up, a growing number of properties located outside of FEMA-designated high-risk flood zones are already flooding....
Cannabis Broker Spotlight: Flux’s Prince Sees Greatest Value in Being an Advisor August 6, 2020 By Don Jergler Editor’s note: This part of a series of profiles on cannabis brokers, in which Insurance Journal explores why and how...
United Valley Insurance Services Adds Kulchin Ross in California August 6, 2020 United Valley Insurance Services Inc. has added as new member in Kulchin Ross Insurance Services LLC Tarzana, Calif. Kulchin Ross...
AIG’s Zaffino Sees COVID-19 Creating Beneficial ‘Flight to Quality’ August 6, 2020 By Mark Hollmer AIG President and Chief Operating Officer Peter Zaffino said that the insurer has seen accelerated rate improvements and other gains...
Liberty Mutual Reports Q2 Loss on COVID-19 Event Cancellations, Storms, Downturn August 6, 2020 Liberty Mutual Holding Co. reported a net loss of $320 million for the second quarter versus net income of $397...
Minnesota Governor Makes Another Request for Federal Aid to Rebuild After Unrest August 5, 2020 Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is again asking for federal help to rebuild from the unrest that followed George Floyd’s death....
‘Dead Zone’ in Gulf Much Smaller This Year Following Tropical Storms August 5, 2020 By Janet McConnaughey Tropical weather stirred up the Gulf of Mexico, reducing this year’s dead zone off Louisiana’s coast to the third-smallest ever...
Houston Will Enforce Masks With Fines as Texas Deaths Topped 7,000 August 5, 2020 Houston’s mayor has instructed police to begin issuing $250 fines for flouting statewide mask orders in hopes that August will...
2 Utility Workers in Iowa Die After Striking Buried Electrical Line August 5, 2020 Two workers installing internet cables in Pella, Iowa, died after striking an underground, high-voltage electrical cable. Pella Police Lt. Paul...
California Labor Commissioner Suing Uber, Lyft for ‘Systemic Wage Theft’ August 5, 2020 The California Labor Commissioner’s Office has filed separate lawsuits against transportation companies Uber and Lyft for committing wage theft by...