Insurance

Arkansas insurance agent Brant Barnes died in a Jan. 6 plane crash in Washington County. Barnes, 43-years old of Tontitown, was the lone occupant in the Beech, M35, fixed wing, single engine aircraft when it crashed off of N. Smokey …

Inszone Insurance Services announced the acquisition of Mattis Insurance Agency. Founded in 1998 by Derrick and Dalia Mattis, and located in Houston, Texas, Mattis Insurance Agency provides protection for hundreds of individuals, families, and businesses throughout the state. TThe Mattis …

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – At least 20 horses in Louisiana have died after ingesting bacteria found in some alfalfa hay cubes from a manufacturer in Colorado, state agriculture officials said. The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry began notifying …

Insurer Chubb is being accused of misleading consumers in the way it offers premium discounts to homeowners as percentages without specifying the actual dollar amounts that insureds can save, and allegedly not applying all the promised discounts. A California customer …

Florida-based Morgan & Morgan, which calls itself the largest injury law firm in the country, has become one of the property insurance industry’s chief adversaries, facing off with insurers over thousands of auto accidents, homeowner policies and workers’ compensation claims. …

Texas lawmakers returned to Austin this week for the start of the 88th Legislature, which portends to be a relatively quiet legislative session for hearing property and casualty concerns. “I think insurance is probably not a top priority,” said Albert …

llicit use of cryptocurrencies hit a record $20.1 billion last year as transactions involving companies targeted by U.S. sanctions skyrocketed, data from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis showed on Thursday. The cryptocurrency market floundered in 2022, as risk appetite diminished and …

The owner of a former vermiculite mine in northwestern Montana that spread harmful asbestos in and around the town of Libby has offered $18.5 million to settle the last of the state’s claims for environmental damages, Gov. Greg Gianforte announced …

Howden Tiger is official. Howden Group Holdings yesterday said it has completed its acquisition of TigerRisk Partners to create the “world’s fourth largest global reinsurance broker.” “Together, we will be able to meet the rapidly changing demands of large global …

A South Korean solar panel maker will invest more than $2.5 billion to build factories in Georgia, hiring 2,500 new employees and making components usually manufactured outside the United States, the company announced Wednesday. Qcells, a unit of Hanwha Solutions, …