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With 97% of precincts and counties having reported, incumbent Republican John King was leading Democratic challenger Janice Laws Robinson in the Georgia insurance commissioner race as of Wednesday morning. King had 54% of the vote to 46% for Robinson, according …

Data stolen from an Australian health insurer, including the names, addresses and birthdates of hundreds of customers, has been posted to a forum on the so-called dark web. The files appear to be a sample of the data that was …

“What are the hardest lines of insurance to write for cannabis businesses?” That question took Stephanie Bozzuto, co-founder of Cannabis Connect Insurance, down a long mental list. Bozzuto has been in the insuring cannabis business for years, so she knows …

Residents were allowed to return home this week after they were evacuated when a large fire broke out Monday inside a chemical plant on the coast of Georgia. Authorities had feared nearby neighborhoods could have been hit with toxic smoke …

BRP Group, the parent company of the national brokerage known as Baldwin Risk Partners, announced a near-doubling of revenue for the third quarter of 2022 over this time last year, but it still saw a net loss of $47 million …

A Mexican bakery will be turning out more bread in south Georgia, announcing a larger bakery to go with a smaller one that it’s already building. Mexico City-based Grupo Bimbo said Friday that it will spend $200 million on a …

A lawyer for Sandy Hook families said Monday that significant punitive damages need to be imposed on Alex Jones to deter him and other conspiracy theorists from continuing to tell their followers the 2012 Newtown shooting was a hoax, in …

Woodruff Sawyer Names Schmidt Producer for Pacific Northwest Region Woodruff Sawyer announced Tim Schmidt as the new vice president, producer, for the Seattle, Washington, office. Before joining Woodruff Sawyer, Schmidt served seven years at Parker, Smith and Feek, where he …

Insurers have paid or reserved to pay $13.9 billion on all types of Hurricane Ida-related claims in Louisiana through September 30, Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced today. This data is the final measure of damage from Hurricane Ida, which struck …

A federal grand jury in Chicago, Illinois, returned an indictment, which was unsealed yesterday, charging three Illinois men with operating an odometer and title fraud scheme that involved hundreds of used cars over the course of many years. According to …