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People Moves: Suda Joins RT Binding Authority’s Leadership Team
RT Specialty, the wholesale distribution division of Ryan Specialty headquartered in Chicago, Ill., hired underwriter Jessalynn Suda to RT Binding Authority’s leadership team. Suda brings 15 years of underwriting experience to RT Binding Authority. She most recently served as vice …
Read More Texas’ Maxwell Insurance Group Joins Risk Services of Louisiana
Maxwell Insurance Group of Houston, Texas, has affiliated with Risk Services of Louisiana (RSL), a Leavitt Group affiliate based in Shreveport. Leavitt Group is a network of insurance brokers whose collective strength allows members to provide national resources to their …
Read More Alabama’s WRM Group Joins Higginbotham
WRM Group, formed just over a year ago with the merger of two of Alabama’s oldest insurance agencies, has now joined Higginbotham, one of the largest agency groups in the Southeast. Terms and details of the partnership were not released. …
Read More Marijuana Dispensary Sues Over Mississippi Regs that Bar Advertising
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The owner of a Mississippi medical marijuana dispensary filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging state regulations that he says censor business owners by preventing them from advertising. After Mississippi legalized medical marijuana for people with debilitating …
Read More Brookfield Reinsurance Completes Buy of Argo Group; Snyder Named Argo CEO
Brookfield Reinsurance’s $1.1 billion acquisition of Argo Group International Holdings has been completed and Jessica Snyder was appointed chief executive officer of Argo. Snyder succeeds Thomas Bradley, who announced that he was retiring upon closing of the deal. Snyder joined …
Read More Former Orlando Museum Director Countersues Over Fake Basquiat Art Scandal
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A former executive director of a Florida museum that was raided last year by the FBI over an exhibit of what turned out to be forged Jean- Michel Basquiat paintings filed counterclaims Tuesday against the museum, …
Read More White House Proposes Transportation, Commerce Agencies Handle Space Regulations
The Biden administration on Wednesday released a long-awaited proposal to split regulatory powers over emerging private-sector space activities between the U.S. transportation and commerce departments, according to a draft legislative proposal. The plan would expand the Federal Aviation Administration’s oversight …
Read More NTSB Begins Investigation of Deadly Ohio Bus Crash Involving High School Students
TNA, Ohio (AP) – A National Transportation Safety Board team was planning to start work Wednesday at the scene of a deadly highway crash in Ohio involving a charter bus filled with high school students that left six people dead …
Read More Mount St. Helens Records More Than 400 Quakes Since Mid-July, But No Signs of Imminent Eruption
More than 400 earthquakes have been detected beneath Washington`s Mount St. Helens in recent months, though there are no signs of an imminent eruption, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Most of the quakes over a three-month span beginning in …
Read More Trump Lawyers Focus on Accountants in Fraud Trial
Donald Trump blamed his accountants. So did the two sons he entrusted to run his company. Now, as they mount their defense in the civil fraud trial threatening the former president’s real estate empire, his lawyers are too. Trump’s lawyers …
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