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Five more people have been charged with intentionally staging automobile accidents with tractor-trailers in New Orleans to defraud trucking and insurance companies in 2017. United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that Antonine Clark, age 33, of New Orleans, Louisiana; …

UFG Insurance Names Saylor Vice President of Surety UFG Insurance, headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, named Kyanna Saylor vice president of surety. Saylor has been assistant vice president of surety marketing at UFG since 2019. She spent 15 years in …

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – One of the largest wildfires in Louisiana history continues to burn through land and threaten rural communities, which are used to flooding and hurricanes this time of year rather than drought and blazes. Louisiana has …

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A lawsuit filed on behalf of a former student and former employee at the University of Minnesota accuses the university of not doing enough to protect personal information from a recent data breach. Attorneys for the two …

The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation is reminding property insurers that they must report Hurricane Idalia claims information daily, starting Friday. The data should be submitted by noon Eastern time, every day, including Saturday and Sunday, through Sept. 6, the …

Preliminary estimates of insured losses from Hurricane Idalia have already begun, with about $9 billion in losses predicted for Florida alone. The estimates are far lower than some in Florida had feared and well below the $60 billion in losses …

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday issued warnings to three infant formula makers to correct their manufacturing processes to better catch bacterial contamination, but added it does not expect any impact on the supply. The regulator issued warning …

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has dismissed lawsuits by 14 businesses seeking insurance coverage from Travelers Insurance for business losses stemming from COVID-19 and the related government shutdown orders. The federal appeals court affirmed the denial of the claims …

Rebuilding from this month’s floods in Slovenia will cost €7 billion ($7.6 billion) over the next five years, Prime Minister Robert Golob said. The government is preparing new legislation to serve as a road map for reconstruction after the worst …

Cleanup and recovery from Hurricane Idalia began on Thursday along Florida’s Gulf Coast, where property damage, loss of life and power disruptions paled in comparison to the last major hurricane that struck the state nearly a year ago. Idalia crashed …