Posts by Hometown Insurance

Private credit’s rush to attract money from retail investors is making the sector more vulnerable to the kind of liquidity mismatches found in traditional lenders, the Bank for International Settlements warned in a report on Tuesday. Direct lenders usually provide …

“Fire took everything, please help.” The headline was one of hundreds like it on GoFundMe campaigns that launched even as the embers of the fires in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena were still smoldering. They were a grim reminder that …

Chicago-based Hub International, an insurance broker and financial services firm with offices across North America, has acquired another agency in the Southeast. Hub announced that it has acquired the assets of C&L Marine Insurance, based in Boca Raton, Florida. President …

Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), a division of the US Liberty Mutual Group, and Baobab Insurance, a digital underwriter of technical risks, are offering a new joint e-crime insurance product for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Germany and Austria. LSM …

Judges for the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals raised questions this week about the high court’s qualified-immunity doctrine, which critics say has long protected bad law enforcement officers. The 5th Circuit panel of judges ruled that qualified immunity won’t …

A single-engine airplane carrying five people crashed and burst into flames Sunday in the parking lot of a retirement community near a small airport in suburban Pennsylvania, and everyone on board survived, officials and witnesses said. The fiery crash happened …

A US oil tanker that was struck by a container ship in the North Sea on Monday was smoldering with a gaping hole in its side, footage broadcast by BBC News showed. Focus is now shifting to the environmental impact …

More than two-thirds of executives polled in a recent survey reported feeling more stressed at the beginning of 2025 than they did at the start of 2024. The survey, conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of Sentry Insurance, found stress …

New York’s Attorney General filed a lawsuit against National General and its parent Allstate Insurance Co. alleging they have failed to protect New Yorkers’ personal information from cyberattacks. The suit by Attorney General Letitia James cites incidents in 2020 and …

The U.S. agency that enforces the labor rights of private-sector workers is abandoning its defense of a law barring the president from removing appointees at will, as President Donald Trump seeks to oust a Democratic member. The National Labor Relations …