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Wholesaler Brown & Riding Insurance Services Inc. said Tuesday it has hired former long-time CRC Group broker Rina Visconti as a senior vice president.

Willis Towers Watson PLC Tuesday said commercial insurance premiums and rates have begun to stabilize across most industries and coverage areas in North America in its most recent Marketplace Realities report.

A group of Republican-led U.S. states filed a lawsuit seeking to block the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from enforcing broad legal protections for transgender workers.

Marsh LLC Tuesday said it has launched tax investment default insurance to cover default related to federal tax credits tied to U.S. renewable energy projects.

The workers compensation system continues to perform very strongly, as private insurers produced their 10th consecutive year of underwriting profitability and the combined ratio sat below 90% for the seventh year in a row, the National Council on Compensation Insurance reported during its Annual Insights Symposium Tuesday.

Angie Baldwin has been named treasurer and chief risk officer of Freeman Co. LLC, the Dallas-based events company said last week.

Seventy-six percent of physicians treating workers compensation patients in Texas in 2021 continued to do so in 2022, according to a report released by the Texas Department of Insurance that found the dip was due to “normal attrition processes among physicians such as retirement, death, changes in practice type and migration.”

Kroger Co. stands accused of checking out of paying overtime to workers by using overtime-exempt assistant store managers to work cashiers, stock shelves and other mundane jobs reserved for overtime-eligible staff during busy times.

After more than a year of sharp property insurance rate hikes and six years of sustained price increases, commercial insurance buyers are starting to see relief on insurance costs, underwriters and brokers say.

Access to detailed data on risks they are underwriting can help insurers price exposures more accurately and leads to better risk management outcomes for buyers, experts say.

Aon PLC Monday announced the launch of its Professional Employer Organizations & Staffing Solutions Group industry practice in North America.

Willis Towers Watson PLC on Monday launched a London-market-backed facility providing coverage for cargo and war-on-land risks in partnership with Ukraine-based insurer VUSO.

Social media is known for giving fans “hacks” for everyday life — how to marinade chicken, how to organize a sock drawer, how to exercise with free weights — and it looks like millennials and Gen Z are much more likely to use the financial advice tips that lie hidden between the workout videos and the recipes found during endless scrolling.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Thursday signed into law a measure that makes line-of-duty mental injuries compensable for first responders.