Insurance
Ohio Meat Processing Plant Faces $277,000 in Proposed Penalties for Safety Violations
A federal investigation into how a 35-year-old worker suffered severe leg burns, degloving of their foot and other injuries after falling into corrosive chemicals in May 2023 has found that an Ohio meat processing plant’s safety failures exposed employees to …
Read More Adults in Ohio Can Legally Possess and Grow Marijuana – But There’s Nowhere to Buy It
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Ohioans woke up Thursday in a land of recreational marijuana limbo, in which adults can legally grow and possess cannabis at home, but cannot legally buy it. That combination of factors related to a citizen-initiated statue …
Read More Microsoft Agrees to Union Contract Terms Governing Its Use of AI
Microsoft Corp. has agreed to union contract language governing its use of artificial intelligence, creating an avenue for workers to challenge how it deploys the evolving technology. As part of negotiations with the Communications Workers of America – the first …
Read More People Moves: Papanikolaou to Succeed Mueller as AGCS CEO and Will Lead Allianz Commercial; May Promoted to CEO of Lloyd’s Europe as Breitburd Steps Down
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE (AGCS) and Lloyd’s. A summary of these new hires follows here. Papanikolaou to Succeed Mueller as CEO of AGCS, also Leading Allianz Commercial Allianz Global …
Read More US Commercial Lines Survey Results Show Aggregate Increase of 6.1% in Q3: WTW
U.S. commercial insurance prices increased 6.1% in the third quarter, maintaining an upward trend. According to the latest results from WTW’s Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey (CLIPS), carriers in the third quarter reported another aggregate commercial price change that remained …
Read More China Offers Insurance to Rubber Producers to Encourage Higher Output
China’s government said on Monday it has started offering insurance for natural rubber producers, to encourage higher output and increase the country’s self-sufficiency rate in producing the latex used to make tires. The scheme for producers in Hainan and Yunnan …
Read More Defense Expert at New York Trump Trial Testifies He Sees No Evidence of Fraud
Former President Donald Trump returned to his civil fraud trial last Thursday to spotlight his defense, renewing his complaints that the case is baseless and heaping praise on an accounting professor`s testimony that backed him up. With testimony winding down …
Read More $20M Suit Blames Overtime, Years of Jail Work fof Los Angeles County Deputy’s Suicide
The family of a Los Angeles County sheriff`s deputy who killed himself has filed a $20 million wrongful-death claim against the county, blaming years of working in jails and mandatory overtime for his depression. The claim was filed Thursday by …
Read More Africa Specialty Risks Gets ‘In Principle’ Approval to Launch Syndicate in 2024
Africa Specialty Risks (ASR), the pan-African focused re/insurance group, has received “in-principle” approval to launch a Lloyd’s syndicate in 2024. The syndicate will be launched in partnership with insurance group Apollo Syndicate Management, which provides third party managing agency services. …
Read More Consumer Agency Warns about Danger of Small Magnetic Balls in Toys
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is warning about the danger of high-powered, pea-sized magnets found in toys, announcing one company`s recall of a set containing them and saying it was aware of seven deaths linked to their ingestion. The …
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