Posts by Hometown Insurance

Surgery schedules around the country may be washed out for several more weeks while a crucial IV and sterile fluids factory remains shut down for hurricane-related damage. People often plan non-emergency surgeries in the fall and early-winter months when their …

Florida-based insurance broker King Risk Partners reports it has acquired Suzio Insurance Center, Inc., an independent insurance agency based in Meriden, Connecticut. Suzio Insurance Center was started in 1974 by the late Franklin Suzio and is currently headed by James …

Specialist Risk Group (SRG), the London-based insurance intermediary, announced the acquisition of Stonehatch, a leading specialist bloodstock and livestock insurance broker. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2014 by Chris Williamson, London-headquartered Stonehatch has built a …

Albanian prosecutors ordered that containers filled with suspected hazardous industrial waste be seized after the cargo was forced to return to Europe from Southeast Asia. The prosecutors’ order Sunday directed customs authorities and the police to confiscate 102 containers for …

When YouTube blocked three Russian channels it said were controlled by sanctioned supporters of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the US video company thought any disputes would be resolved in courts in California and England. It couldn’t have been more …

The most powerful typhoon in almost six decades threatening to barrel across Taiwan this late in the year has raised the prospect of another suspension of the island’s $2.5 trillion stock exchange by a storm. Super Typhoon Kong-Rey has intensified …

Indian police have asked Asit Rath, the chief executive of British insurer Aviva in the country, to join an inquiry into a former employee’s accusations of religious discrimination in the workplace, documents seen by Reuters showed. The investigation, in the …

Back-to-back hurricane landfalls in the span of less than two weeks have placed flood insurance in a new light for many inside and outside of the insurance industry, if not front and center. Images of flood and storm damage from …

JPMorgan Chase, the largest U.S. bank, has begun suing customers for check fraud, saying they improperly withdrew funds by taking illegal advantage of a temporary technical glitch that went viral on TikTok. The glitch in late August let customers deposit …

McDonald’s was sued on Tuesday by consumers in a proposed class action stemming from the E.coli outbreak linked to onions in the fast-food chain’s Quarter Pounders. Amanda McCray of Chicago and William Michael Kraft of Davie, Florida, said they experienced …