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Thomas A. Bradley has stepped into the role of chief executive officer of Argo Group International Holdings Ltd., the Bermuda-based specialty insurer. Bradley, who has served as Argo’s chairman since 2020, has been interim CEO since March 2022 when Kevin …

Infrastructure owned by two major agriculture traders was damaged in Russian attacks at one of the biggest crop-handling ports in Ukraine, adding to the mounting losses suffered by its farm sector. Rocket strikes on the Ukrainian port city of Mykolayiv …

Homeowners in the US got new guidance to help them defend against increasingly frequent wildfires and associated rising insurance premiums. The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety, a research nonprofit funded by insurers, announced it has developed the first …

Attorney Greg Gordon sat before a packed hotel ballroom of bankruptcy lawyers who had come to hear him hold court on his pioneering strategy for companies seeking to dodge billion-dollar lawsuits: the “Texas two-step.” The tactic has made the Jones …

The mother of a man hailed as a hero for killing a gunman who ambushed and fatally shot a police officer only to be killed himself by another officer in suburban Denver filed a lawsuit alleging the officer who shot …

A Houston dredging company has been ordered to pay a $1 million fine for an oil spill that occurred when a subcontractor cut through an oil pipeline during barrier island restoration work off Louisiana in 2016. Great Lakes Dredge & …

Noguchi & Associates is partnering with ori-gen Agency Insurance Services to launch a Hawaii-based division. The new ori-gen Hawaii division will be led by Noguchi & Associates’ President Mitchell Noguchi. ori-gen will join with the Hawaii-based staff to support expansion …

Hundreds of cars, trucks and recreational vehicles were backed up in long lines at entrances to Yellowstone National Park as it partially reopened Wednesday morning following record floods that reshaped the park’s rivers and canyons, wiped out numerous roads and …

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a New York law that required people to show a special need to carry a handgun in public, ruling for the first time that the Second Amendment protects gun rights outside the home. The …

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at re/insurance broker Consilium and the insurer Chubb. A summary of these new hires follows here. Ed Broking’s Baird Takes Leadership Role at Aventum Consilium, the international re/insurance broker, part of The …