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Authorities were investigating the death of a rail conductor who was hit by a passing train in Montana, the National Transportation Safety Board said. The conductor worked for BNSF Railway, the agency said in a post on the social media …

An Iowa man has been charged with one count of acting as an adjuster without a license—a class D felony—following an investigation by the Iowa Insurance Division’s Fraud Bureau. According to criminal complaints filed by the Iowa Insurance Division’s Fraud …

The mass evacuation by military aircraft of hundreds of residents from Alaska villages ravaged by the remnants of Typhoon Halong is complete, and officials and local leaders are turning attention to trying to stabilize damaged infrastructure and housing where they …

A United Airlines plane appears to have collided with a weather balloon while cruising over Utah at 36,000 feet last week, fracturing layers of its windshield and forcing an emergency landing. A California company called Windborne Systems said it started …

Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt announced a Cherokee county man has been sentenced to 12 months of probation for insurance fraud. William Owens, age 71, pleaded guilty in Cherokee County District Court to one felony count of insurance fraud. Owens …

A plane carrying passengers from Omaha, Nebraska, to Los Angeles made an emergency landing minutes into the flight “out of an abundance of caution” after pilots mistakenly thought someone was trying to breach the cockpit. The SkyWest Flight 6569 had …

SpaceX has settled a lawsuit filed by the maker of the popular party game Cards Against Humanity over accusations that Elon Musk’s rocket company trespassed and damaged a plot of land the card company owns in Texas. Texas court records …

An East Texas groundwater conservation district is negotiating a legal path that would pause a plan to pump billions of gallons of water out of the region. The Neches & Trinity Valleys Groundwater Conservation District is allowing its lawyers to …

The 60,000 men and women responsible for keeping American skies safe have gone unpaid throughout the government shutdown. Without a funding agreement soon, many will be forced to dip into savings, rack up credit-card debt, or take on part-time jobs …

North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey this week called for more state and federal assistance after multiple homes on the Outer Banks have collapsed into the ocean in the last two months. “I am urging our Congressional delegation to see …

Apple Inc. lashed out at the European Union’s attempts to tame the power of Silicon Valley in the most far-reaching legal challenge of the bloc’s Big Tech antitrust rules. The iPhone maker’s lawyer Daniel Beard told the General Court in …

The US saw more than $101 billion in losses from severe storms and fires in the first half of 2025, setting a record. That’s according to a database of billion-dollar disasters that a nonprofit has re-launched since the Trump administration …

The recent 15-hour or so outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) again raised questions about the potential for systemic loss to the cyber insurance market, but losses from the temporary lapse in cloud services are not likely to be catastrophic. …

Colorado’s Insurance regulator is warning consumers and insurers about trend in auto shops in the state offering to waive deductibles. “The Division has become aware that certain auto repair shops in Colorado are advertising or engaging in practices that involve …

It’s not the Liberty Bowl, but the Music City Bowl in Nashville that Liberty Mutual Insurance is sponsoring this year, giving the insurance carrier more branding exposure in a Dec. 30 matchup between Southeastern Conference and Big Ten football teams. …

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by a group of physicians and healthcare providers to revive their antitrust lawsuit accusing drugmaker Merck of misleading federal regulators to maintain a decades-long monopoly over the mumps vaccine …

Australia has ordered four artificial-intelligence chatbot companies to explain their measures to protect children from exposure to sexual or self-harm material, as its internet regulator beefs up safety measures on the AI front. The realistic conversational abilities of such services …

A hit-and-run driver slammed into an outdoor birthday party in suburban Washington, D.C., killing a woman and injuring eight kids on Saturday evening, police said. Thirteen people were hurt in the the crash in Bladensburg, Maryland, according to statements from …

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at insurtech BOXX Insurance and HDI Global. A summary of these new hires follows here. Zurich’s BOXX Insurance Names Key Appointments in Distribution, Underwriting, Claims BOXX Insurance, the Toronto-based cyber insurtech, announced …

Chinese internet giant Baidu Inc. and a Swiss Post subsidiary will start autonomous vehicle testing in Switzerland by the end of this year as they seek to launch the world’s first robotaxis without steering wheels to the public in 2027. …