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Marsh, the global insurance broker and risk advisor, has named Fred Smith the Florida corporate and risk management segment leader, overseeing service for large and middle-market clients in the state. Smith will relocate to Miami from New York and report …

New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced that Superintendent Adrienne Harris will be leaving the Department of Financial Services (DFS). Hochul is appointing Kaitlin Asrow as acting superintendent of DFS effective October 18, 2025. “I’d like to thank Superintendent Harris for …

Canadian carrier WestJet said on Monday the personal information of some passengers was exposed in a cybersecurity breach earlier this year, though no payment data was compromised. The airline said it detected suspicious activity on June 13 and later determined …

Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. suspended some beverage shipments on Monday after a cyberattack hobbled some of the drinks company’s operations in Japan. The maker of Asahi and Peroni beer said the disruption from the system failure is so far limited …

A cargo ship was hit by an explosive device near Yemen and caught fire, injuring two seafarers. The Netherlands-flagged Minervagracht, a relatively small general cargo ship, is currently on fire in the Gulf of Aden, its manager Spliethoff said in …

Federal Express Corporation (FedEx) violated federal law by subjecting a female administrator at the company’s St. Rose, Louisiana location to sexual harassment and firing her when she refused to continue to work with her harasser, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity …

QBE North America Appoints Cunningham as SVP and Environmental Underwriting Leader QBE North America, headquartered in New York City, appointed Jayne Cunningham as senior vice president and environmental underwriting leader, reporting to Dan Fortin, president of specialty insurance. Based in …

Hackers compromised firewall devices within the US government, according to a senior federal official, amid broader warnings of cyberattacks on widely-used devices manufactured by Cisco Systems, Inc. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, issued an emergency directive …

A new bill introduced in Congress would give federal courts original jurisdiction over state venues in limited civil cases involving interstate commercial trucking accidents. The Forum Accountability and Integrity in Roadway (FAIR) Trucking Act, introduced by Congressman Tom Barrett (R-Michigan) …

Attendees at the Florida Association of Insurance Agents’ June convention in Orlando may have noticed the live giraffe exhibit at the Marriott World Center. The giraffe won’t make it for the 2026 convention. Nor will any other live animal exhibits. …

A public adjuster who pleaded guilty in March to defrauding Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Co. and a Georgia church out of millions of dollars has been sentenced to 19 years in prison. A federal judge in Georgia last week also ordered …

The Federal Aviation Administration said last Thursday it will extend significant flight cuts at Newark, one of the three main airports serving the New York City area, through late October 2026 as it continues to face an air traffic controller …

A 79-year-old man in Southern California filed a claim against the federal government for $50 million in damages, saying federal agents violated his civil rights when they tackled him during a Sept. 9 immigration raid at a car wash business. …

A surgical technician who was fired in 2021 after refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine for religious reasons can pursue her claim against her former employer UMass Memorial Health Care, the Massachusetts Supreme Court (SJC) has ruled. The state’s highest …

PG&E Corp. plans to invest $73 billion in capital expenditures through 2030 as it moves to harden a system that’s been exposed by extreme weather. Utilities are racing to strengthen grids as artificial intelligence, electric cars and new factories boost …

(The Center Square) – Neither naturally occurring landslides nor sinkholes are new phenomena in Pennsylvania. Receiving help when they destroy homes and businesses, however, would be a welcome development for those who live in vulnerable areas. House legislators passed a …

Four people died after heavy rain caused flooding in Arizona, including three in a rural 19th-century mining town where floodwaters on Friday forced people to seek safety on rooftops and washed out a propane distributorship, scattering about 1,000 tanks downtown. …

Two Democratic lawmakers are pressing the Trump administration about its management of the National Flood Insurance Program after cuts at the agency that runs it, the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In a letter to FEMA’s Acting Administrator David Richardson that …

NASA’s first radar images from a new Earth-mapping satellite show the Maine coast and North Dakota farmland in incredible detail. The pictures, released Thursday, are from a spacecraft that rocketed into orbit from India two months ago. The joint U.S.-Indian …

As Minnesota mourned a mass shooting at a church that left two schoolchildren dead and 21 people injured, Gov. Tim Walz promised to call a special session for the Legislature to pass solutions to gun violence and school safety. But …