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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Iowans voted Tuesday to add a right to keep and bear arms into the state constitution, a move that will make it more difficult to pass gun restrictions and easier to strike down existing gun …

FLORISSANT, Mo. (AP) – Testing by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers found no radioactive contamination at a Missouri school that was shut down last month amid fears that nuclear material from a contaminated creek nearby had made its way …

Managing general agent Novatae Risk Group said it acquired fellow MGA, MarketScout Corp., on Nov 1. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Richard Kerr, founder and CEO of Dallas-based MarketScout, was named CEO of Novatae, effective immediately. Steve Cook, …

A group of insurers – including subsidiaries of AIG, Liberty Mutual, Allianz, Sompo International, and Travelers – are challenging an approval of the Boy Scouts of America’s $2.46 billion bankruptcy reorganization plan to allow the organization to settle tens of …

The Basketball Hall of Fame has succeeded in getting Chubb subsidiary Federal Insurance Co. to defend it in a case accusing the museum of unlawfully securing funds for renovations to its facility. Documents filed in the U.S. District Court for …

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a suspect in connection with seven fires set across Mississippi’s capital city early Tuesday. At least two of the buildings set ablaze in Jackson were churches; one was burned to the ground. Another …

Risk Solved, expert.ai Partner to Offer for Language-to-Data Solution for Insurers Risk Solved Ltd, a global risk management platform provider, and expert.ai, an artificial intelligence (AI) specialist in natural language understanding, have announced a partnership to deliver a language-to-data solution …

The US Federal Trade Commission plans to make wider use of its 1914 founding statute to police anticompetitive behavior by companies in the internet age. The Democratic-led commission on Thursday issued a new policy statement that empowers the agency to …

Tropical Storm Nicole was centered over central Florida at 7 a.m., having weakened from being a Category 1 hurricane when it made landfall earlier in the morning on the coast. Nicole’s maximum sustained winds have decreased to near 60 mph …

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Everest Re, RenRe and Lockton Re. A summary of these new hires follows here. Everest Re Names AXA XL’s Mann Head of Casualty, UK Branch Everest Reinsurance, the reinsurance division of …