Posts by Hometown Insurance

Inszone Insurance Services announced the acquisition of Michigan-based Legacy Partners Insurance Services. Founded in 2013 by Joe Graham, Legacy Partners has spent the last decade growing exponentially throughout Southeast Michigan. Operating out of its Harrison Township headquarters, the agency built …

Orville Williams has had a healthy wheat crop on his 2,600-acre farm in Montezuma, Kansas, every year since he was a teenager. It hasn’t always been easy. For instance, there were challenging economic times through the 1980s and various degrees …

Inszone Insurance Services announced the acquisition of Kevin Taylor Insurance Agency, LLC. Operating as Taylor Insurance Agency, the firm brings a personal lines portfolio to the Inszone umbrella, further expanding its footprint in San Antonio, Texas. Originally founded in 2011 …

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing online messaging platform Discord, accusing the tech company of exposing children to predators using the service and deceiving users about the safety of the platform. Paxton filed the lawsuit Friday in a Collin …

President Donald Trump said he called off the signing of an executive order that would address cybersecurity concerns raised by powerful new artificial intelligence models because he objected to parts of the directive, casting doubt on US efforts to respond …

Insurance Journal’s Risky Future series is hosting the “AI Tools for Embedded Insurance Platforms” Demo Day, a series of free AI tool demonstrations designed exclusively for (re)insurers, MGAs/Program Administrators, marketplaces, and other tech and distribution platforms. This event focuses on …

Safepoint Holdings Inc., an underwriter of specialty homeowners and commercial insurance, and some of its backers are seeking to raise as much as $283.3 million in an US initial public offering. The Tampa, Florida-based firm plans to market 6.24 million …

A North Carolina jury handed down what may have been the largest personal injury award in state history, five years after a retaining wall collapsed on workers, killing one and injuring four others. The lawsuit in Henderson County, near Asheville, …

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to hear a bid by Meta Platforms to avoid a lawsuit brought by Vermont’s attorney general accusing the company of designing its Instagram social media app to be addictive to young users, as …

There is no longer a risk of a compromised chemical tank exploding in the suburbs of Los Angeles and evacuation orders for some of the more than 50,000 people were lifted, according to the Orange County Fire Authority. The county’s …