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Probe Opened Into Hyundai Ioniq 5 EVs Over Power Loss Reports

U.S. auto safety regulators are investigating nearly 40,000 Hyundai Ioniq 5 electric vehicles over reports of power loss while driving tied to a battery charging issue. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s preliminary investigation covers 2022 model-year vehicles after it …

Sublimit Left Out of Policy, But Liberty Mutual Firm Avoids Huge Payout Anyway

What happens when an insurance carrier, its underwriter, a broker and the insured all forget to make sure a sublimit endorsement on wind-driven rain losses is included in a multimillion dollar property policy? In the case of a Liberty Mutual …

World Insurance Acquires Assets of Bryant Agency in Upstate New York

Insurance broker World Insurance Associates LLC announced that it acquired substantially all the insurance assets of Bryant Asset Protection, Inc. of Slingerlands, New York. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. BAP was founded in 1951 by Charles Bryant, and …

Data on California Private Self-Insureds’ 2022 Workers’ Comp Claim Experience

California workers’ compensation private self-insured claim frequency rose 6% last year as both medical-only and indemnity claim volume increased, but a new report suggests that many of the claims may have been low-cost COVID-19 cases. A California Workers’ Compensation Institute …

Construction Owners Accused of Submitting Fraudulent Bonds for New York Storm Projects

Federal officials report they have charged two construction company owners with submitting fraudulent bonds in connection with storm recovery and reconstruction projects in New York. Rawinder Dhillon and Amninder Singh allegedly defrauded the New York State Governor’s Office of Storm …

Takeaways from Our Conversation on Carrier-Broker Relations

Insurance professionals specializing in cannabis across the nation in the last few years have gone from few and far in between to too many to count as cannabis evolves into a mature industry – and it builds a clearer claims …

University of Delaware Settles Class Action Over COVID Campus Shutdown

The University of Delaware has agreed to pay $6.3 million to settle a lawsuit over its campus shutdown in 2020 and the halting of in-person classes because of the coronavirus pandemic. According to court papers that were filed this month …

Bank of England Launches First Sector-Wide Liquidity ‘Stress Test’

The Bank of England has launched its first system-wide liquidity ‘stress test’ to establish how big banks, insurers, clearing houses and investment funds respond collectively during extreme stresses in markets, it said on Monday. The BoE had said in December …

Justice Department Accuses Minneapolis Police of Systematic Discrimination After George Floyd’s Killing

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The Justice Department alleged Friday that Minneapolis police have systematically discriminated against Black and Native American people for years and often violated constitutional rights following a sweeping investigation that began after George Floyd was killed. The two-year …

Microsoft Says Early June Disruptions to Outlook, Cloud Platform Were Cyberattacks

In early June, sporadic but serious service disruptions plagued Microsoft’s flagship office suite – including the Outlook email and OneDrive file-sharing apps – and cloud computing platform. A shadowy hacktivist group claimed responsibility, saying it flooded the sites with junk …

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