Posts by Hometown Insurance

A Warren County, North Carolina man has been charged with insurance fraud for allegedly seeking an insurance payment from a restaurant where he claims he found cockroaches in his food. Investigators say it was one of four similar cockroach complaints …

Texas is mobilizing emergency response crews in anticipation of expected flash flooding from a now fully-formed tropical storm that forecasters predicted would hit the southeast part of the state on Tuesday. Federal forecasters elevated a tropical depression in the Gulf …

Coalition, the San Francisco-based cyber managing general agent and cyber-security firm, has launched Active Cyber Insurance for Enterprises in the UK, a solution designed to meet the complex cyber risk needs of large organizations. Following the announcement of Coalition’s expanded …

The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) joined 48 state financial regulatory agencies in reaching a $15.5 million settlement with mortgage servicer NewRez for improperly imposing “force-placed” insurance costs on borrowers who already had active homeowners insurance policies. …

The insurance industry should be prepared to withstand $171 billion in insured catastrophe losses, on average in a given year, up $19 billion from a year ago, according to Verisk. In its highest estimate reported to date, the data analytics …

Family Dollar Stores of North Carolina, LLC, a Matthews, North Carolina-headquartered retailer with a store in Greenville, violated federal law by refusing to provide a reasonable accommodation for an employee’s pregnancy-related limitations and then firing her, according to a lawsuit …

Small business focused insurtech Foxquilt said it has launched an admitted errors & omissions product with a rollout to 10 states starting in September. E&O is Foxquilt’s second admitted product in the U.S. along with commercial general liability. “E&O is …

Actress Blake Lively will get just over $400,000 of the $8 million she sought in legal costs from actor and director Justin Baldoni after they settled their fight over the production of their 2024 film “It Ends With Us,” a …

Guy Carpenter, the reinsurance arm of Marsh, has been rebranded Marsh Re — retiring a name that has been in the insurance and reinsurance market for more than 100 years. “A new name for an expanded vision,” said the promotional …

Two air traffic controllers could be fired for leaving the tower at New York’s LaGuardia Airport about an hour early on the night that an Air Canada jet smashed into a fire truck crossing the runway, killing both pilots, according …