Posts by Hometown Insurance

District of Columbia Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb announced that the District has won judgments in nine lawsuits that will cost 14 drivers from Maryland and Virginia a total of $531,192 in unpaid fines, penalties and fees for traffic citations. …

Cars on the road today are 99% cleaner than they were in 1970. Air quality in the United States is much, much better as a result. In Los Angeles, where I live, lead levels in the air were 50 times …

Marsh announced Ted Moynihan will become president and CEO of Marsh Management Consulting and Oliver Wyman, effective April 1. He will succeed Nick Studer, who earlier this month was appointed president and CEO of Marsh Risk. Moynihan will serve on …

European insurance watchdogs are taking a closer look at how the industry values its investments in private credit amid widespread concerns about the asset class. Authorities in France and Germany are among those to recently step up their scrutiny, according …

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has concluded that an individual who is the sole owner and employee of a business is not required to provide his insurance carrier with notice of his work-related injury within 120 days to qualify for workers’ …

Vital Arctic sea ice shrank to tie its lowest measured level for the winter, the season when ice grows, as a warming Earth shattered records across the continents. Arctic sea ice levels, especially in the summer, are crucial to Earth’s …

There were allegedly five heat-related deaths over the last two summers in Texas prisons, the plaintiff’s attorneys presented on the first day of the federal trial over insufficient air conditioning in these facilities. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has …

For nearly a decade, residents of Sweetwater have been confronted by a jarring sight as they leave and enter this small West Texas town: thousands of used wind-turbine blades. The blades take up nearly 1 million square feet in a …

Wars, including a widening conflict in the Middle East, are heightening risks for aviation as flight corridors are squeezed and drones become more widespread, Europe’s top aviation safety regulator told Reuters. The month-old Iran war is reshaping airspace across the …

Shippers remain doubtful of a wholesale return to the Strait of Hormuz while it remains beset by conflict, throwing cold wateron a Trump administration plan for US-backed insurance and naval escorts to clear passage through the vital waterway. “This is …