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Confie acquired Colorado-based CoWest Insurance Group and the firm’s 30 insurance agency network. The acquisition underscores Confie’s plans to create an insurance agency network for independent agents within their national brand, InsureOne. CoWest will continue to operate under its current …

FORT MYERS, Fla. – Dave Lusk, who lives on San Carlos Island, sandwiched between Fort Myers and devastated Fort Myers Beach, Florida, told the story of how his daugther and her family decided to ride out Hurricane Ian in their …

Some organizations view risk management as merely slowing down and planning before proceeding, while others make it a key organizational building block. Risk management in the cannabis industry is still new, and underdeveloped, according to one expert on the topic. …

After watching days of testimony that included the parents of slain children breaking down on the witness stand, a Connecticut jury soon will have the difficult task of coming up with a dollar amount that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should …

A funeral home operator accused of leaving bodies unattended without refrigeration must pay $5.5 million to the daughter of a man whose body lay decomposing for up to two weeks. The jury’s award on Friday marked the conclusion of the …

Catastrophe modeler Karen Clark & Company (KCC) late Friday said the firm estimates insured losses from Hurricane Ian will near $63 billion. Should KCC’s calculations hold true, Ian will surely be remembered as one of the costliest hurricanes in U.S. …

The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California released its Quarterly Experience Report, which reflects an increase in written premium due to economic recovery from the pandemic. The report is an update on California statewide insurer experience valued as of …

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at AXA XL Reinsurance and the MGA Rokstone. A summary of these new hires follows here. AXA XL Reinsurance Promotes Twite to CEO, Bermuda AXA XL Reinsurance announced it has appointed Mark …

An insurer’s war and financial services exclusions relieve it of having to provide coverage for an insured being sued for allegedly aiding international terrorists responsible for the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine in 2014. The U.S. …

The difficult job of rebuilding communities pummeled by Hurricane Ian is expected to be made even worse by a problem that’s lingered since the early days of the pandemic: snarled supply chains. Ian tore a path of destruction across Florida, …