An explosion has injured three workers at a company in Virginia that makes custom machinery. News outlets report the employees were hurt Wednesday in the explosion at Thomas Industrial Fabrication in Woolwine, Va. Patrick County Emergency Services Coordinator Steve Allen …
Rogers & Gray Insurance, a South Dennis, Mass.-headquartered, independent insurance agency, has appointed Patrick Marshall as a business insurance consultant. Marshall comes to Rogers & Gray from Denver, Colo.-based Xactly Corporation, a cloud-based software company, where he served as an …
Brightway Insurance, a national property/casualty insurance retailer selling through a network of franchised independent stores, has opened its second store in New York. Julio Ramirez opened Brightway, The Ramirez Agency in New Rochelle, N.Y., on July 23. The news of …
Uber has taken the first step toward relaunching its self-driving cars on Pittsburgh-area streets four months after a fatal accident involving one of the cars in Arizona. A spokeswoman said the company put a handful of vehicles back on the …
A Texas nonprofit firm’s plan to publish technical designs for firearms online so anyone with a 3-D printer can use them to manufacture fully operational “downloadable” guns is drawing fire from New Jersey and national gun-control groups. Defense Distributed would …
Chubb European Group announced it has achieved an important regulatory step in its Brexit preparations to redomicile its businesses to France. This provides Chubb’s customers “with continuous, uninterrupted service regardless of the outcome of Brexit negotiations between the UK and …
Markel Corp. announced that its newly licensed German insurance company, Markel Insurance SE (MISE), has been given an “A” financial strength rating by A.M. Best. MISE has been established to meet the insurance needs of clients located or with risk …
A second Brexit contract continuity clause has been published by the International Underwriting Association (IUA). The association in June issued a policy clause to help companies manage insurance contracts as the UK leaves the European Union and this has now …
Nigeria increased the minimum capital requirement for insurers by threefold, in a bid to expand their capacity to handle risk in Africa’s biggest oil producer. The National Insurance Commission requires the new levels of capital by Jan. 1, according to …
Sweltering? Swimming? Choking on wildfire smoke? Blame it on the jet stream and a warming world. Kinked, buckled, stuck or stalled, it doesn’t matter how you describe it, the jet stream — the ribbon of wind that circles the Earth …
