Posts by Hometown Insurance
Schumer Urges FAA to Ground Helicopter Company After Fatal Crash
US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called on the Federal Aviation Administration to immediately revoke New York Helicopter Charter Inc.’s license and expand safety inspections of other tour operators after a crash last week killed six people. The New York …
Read More Paul Weiss Firm, Assailed by Trump, Quietly Scrubs ESG From Website
Law firm Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison has long held itself up as a trailblazer on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. It launched one of the legal industry’s early standalone ESG advisory practices in 2020 to guide clients …
Read More People Moves: Arch Insurance Taps Seip From LSM as Head of Fine Art & Specie, Europe; Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Promotes Gormley and Reddin in Ireland
Arch Insurance Taps Seip From LSM as Head of Fine Art & Specie for Europe Arch Insurance announced the appointment of Paul Seip as head of Fine Art & Specie, European Markets, with immediate effect. Seip joins Arch Insurance (EU) …
Read More NAMIC, Big ‘I’ Join Call to Do Away With Federal Insurance Office
The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies and the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America are the latest from the industry to join a call in support of a measure to abolish the Federal Insurance Office. The trade groups …
Read More Hays County, Texas Sheriff’s Office Recovers $220K of ‘Cloned’ GMC Denalis
The Hays County, Texas Sheriff’s Office said it has recovered four stolen trucks with cloned vehicle identification numbers. The Hays County Sheriff’s Auto Theft Unit worked with the Hays County Tax Assessor’s Office and partnering agencies to recover four VIN-cloned …
Read More Trump’s Trade War Is Making US Farmers Anxious About Demand Risk
Josh Yoder, a fifth-generation farmer in Ohio, has been watching gyrations in the crop markets as Donald Trump moved to dramatically escalate his trade war with China this week. Yoder is still an ardent Trump supporter, but he’s also getting …
Read More Arizona Reported 15% Decrease in Vehicle Thefts in 2024
The Arizona Automobile Theft Authority reported that Arizona vehicle thefts decreased by 15% in 2024, marking a second straight year of decline. Data compiled by the AATA’s Auto Crime Tracking shows that Arizona had 17,010 vehicles reported stolen in 2024, …
Read More Brown & Brown Charges Former VP With Poaching Clients, Breaching Agreements
Florida-headquartered Brown & Brown, one of the largest insurance brokerages in the country, this week filed a federal lawsuit against a former vice president, charging him with secretly setting up a competing business and poaching clients. The lawsuit in the …
Read More Lawsuit Alleging Environmental Racism in Louisiana Parish Allowed to Proceed
A civil rights lawsuit alleging a south Louisiana parish engaged in racist land-use policies by placing polluting industries in majority-Black communities can move forward, a federal appellate court says. On Thursday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New …
Read More Cleanup Underway in Keystone Oil Pipeline Spill in North Dakota
Trucks and workers started cleaning up the Keystone oil pipeline spill in rural North Dakota, though its cause and the project timing is unclear. The pipeline ruptured Tuesday morning in southeastern North Dakota and was shut down within two minutes …
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