Posts by Hometown Insurance

The Federal Railroad Administration recently completed a review of Norfolk Southern’s safety culture in the wake of the February’s fiery derailment in Ohio, and officials plan to follow up with similar investigations of all the major freight railroads over the …

A storm off India’s west coast has strengthened to become a powerful cyclone and could hit India’s western state of Gujarat and southern parts of Pakistan this week, the weather department said. The cyclone, named Biparjoy, is expected to make …

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said he will issue a disaster declaration after a portion of heavily traveled Interstate 95 in Philadelphia collapsed on Sunday morning due to an apparent tanker truck fire. Shapiro said the declaration will allow the state …

The family of an Illinois woman killed in a 2022 crash while she and two children were parasailing in the Florida Keys filed a second lawsuit connected to her death this week and reflected on the tragic end to a …

Whether a constitutional right to a healthy, livable climate is protected by state law is at the center of a lawsuit going to trial Monday in Montana, where 16 young plaintiffs and their attorneys hope to set an important legal …

Democrats on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee launched an investigation on Friday into major insurers’ “support” of new fossil fuel projects, on the heels of an industry retreat from areas prone to climate risks. American International Group, Travelers Companies, Chubb, …

BioNTech will go to court on Monday to defend itself against a lawsuit from a German woman who is seeking damages for alleged side effects of its COVID-19 vaccine, the first of potentially hundreds of cases in the country. The …

PMorgan Chase & Co. has agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging it knowingly benefited from former client Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking. The firm reached an “agreement in principle” to settle the proposed class action filed by an unnamed Epstein victim late …

More than one in 10 German companies were the victim of a cyberattack last year, according to a new study, with the war in Ukraine prompting a steep increase in hacking in Europe’s largest economy. In a survey conducted by …

Britain could lose out on investments in autonomous vehicles (AVs) and see startups shift testing elsewhere if promised laws to regulate the technology are not passed before the next general election, startups and insurance companies said. Despite the government’s vision …