Zurich North America Monday named Kara Higginbotham head of professional liability and cyber for U.S. national accounts.

Willis Towers Watson PLC said Monday it has hired former Lockton Cos. LLC real estate leader Danielle Lombardo as chair of its real estate, hospitality and leisure division, Corporate Risk and Broking, North America.

Former President Donald Trump agreed Monday to additional restrictions on the $175 million bond in his New York civil fraud case, resolving concerns of the state attorney general that the funds were not secure.

In an interesting twist on a couple’s quarrel involving an angry spouse who may have switched out an engagement ring’s 3.57-carat diamond after an argument, an Illinois appeals court panel on Monday upheld a ruling requiring a Chubb Ltd. unit to pay $176,356.58 to the wife as an “innocent insured” who filed the claim.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves on Saturday signed into law a bill that authorizes local governments to provide 60 days of pay to the beneficiaries of certain first responders who die in the line of duty.

A New York limestone quarry manager pleaded guilty Friday to second-degree manslaughter, a Class C felony, in connection with a mine worker’s death in October 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor said Friday.

A Pennsylvania appellate court on Friday reversed the dismissal of a lawsuit by a former refuse worker who claimed his cannabis-related firing was improper because he possessed a valid medical marijuana card.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday designated a pair of widely used industrial chemicals as hazardous substances under the country’s Superfund program, accelerating a crackdown on toxic compounds known as “forever chemicals.”

A trial judge improperly applied a contingency fee multiplier that resulted in increased attorneys fees awarded to a claimant’s lawyer in a workers compensation case, a Florida appellate court ruled Friday.

The city of San Francisco is suing the nearby city of Oakland over the latter’s plan to modify its airport name to include “San Francisco,” arguing that the proposed name infringes on its trademark and would “cause confusion and chaos,” according to ABC News.

Three former managers in a workers compensation department in Zurich North America’s Rancho Cordova, California, branch have been awarded a total of $80,252,412 in compensatory and punitive damages by a jury that found the company had wrongfully terminated them for taking unofficial paid time off, according to the firm that represented them.

Zurich North America this week reassigned responsibilities among three of its senior middle-market executives.

Mergers and acquisitions among insurance brokers and agents declined 18% in the first quarter, falling to the lowest level of deals since the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020, according to a report released Friday by Optis Partners LLC.