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The Washington Post is investigating a cyberattack on the email accounts of some journalists, prompting the newspaper to beef up its online security. The intrusion was discovered late Thursday and the company carried out a forced reset of login credentials …

College basketball turned heads in March. Now, we’re have the final rounds of Verisk’s emerging issues bracket that could hold the attention of insurance pros for years to come.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Friday said it was streamlining reviews of requests filed by automakers seeking to deploy self-driving vehicles without required human controls like steering wheels, brake pedals or mirrors. NHTSA has authority to grant petitions …

Florida’s governor has signed House Bill 1549 into law, eliminating the requirement that insurance agents make a “diligent effort” to find coverage before placing properties with a surplus lines carrier. Thanks to a late amendment to the bill in May, …

Canada’s WestJet Airlines is investigating a cybersecurity incident that has disrupted access to its mobile app and some internal systems, affecting an undisclosed number of users, the airlines said in a statement on Friday. WestJet said specialized internal teams are …

A 43-year-old North Carolina insurance agent is out on bond after she was charged with using clients’ identities to gain illicit commissions on life insurance policies, the state Department of Insurance announced. Ashley Barnhardt, of Locust, near Charlotte, was charged …

This edition of International People Moves details London-based appointments at the broker Specialist Risk Group and the managing general agent CFC Underwriting. A summary of these new hires follows here. Specialist Risk Group Names Former Lockton Exec Nimmo as CEO …

Federal investigators found that a pilot’s medication use may have been a contributing factor in a 2023 medical helicopter crash that killed two in Alabama. The National Transportation Safety Board released the final report this month on the April 2, …

Erie Insurance says it is making “steady progress” in its efforts to restore its computer systems that have been down since its information security team detected unusual activity on June 7. “Our teams—working alongside leading cybersecurity experts—continue working around the …

The fatal crash of Air India flight AI171 on June 12, 2025 is expected to send ripple effects across the global aviation insurance market, significantly affecting insurers and reinsurers in India and globally, according to GlobalData, the London-based data and …