Insurance
People Moves: Lloyd’s Makes Executive Team Changes
Lloyd’s, headquartered in London, the world’s leading marketplace for insurance and reinsurance market for global risk, made several new appointments and updates to its executive team. Rachel Turk is appointed as chief of market performance and will join the Council …
Read More People Moves: BevCap Names Dinardo as SVP of Captive Operations
BevCap Management, a program manager for casualty and medical stop loss captive insurance companies in multiple domiciles, announced that Dawn Dinardo has joined its team as SVP of Captive Operations. With nearly 20 years of experience in captive insurance management, …
Read More Northern US Mayors Call for End to ‘Irrational’ Trade War With Canada
Mayors in states that border Canada are calling for an end to President Donald Trump’s trade war with the country, saying it has harmed businesses and workers in their communities and upended one of the world’s most successful economic relationships. …
Read More Inmates Clear Tornado Damage to Free Oklahoma Family Stuck for Over a Week
A work crew of incarcerated people cleared the way for a woman and her three children to finally leave their rural Oklahoma property more than a week after a tornado caused widespread damage, state officials said. The crew was still …
Read More Texas Lawmakers Spike Bills to Study, Restrict PFAS
FORT WORTH — Rising public concern in Texas over PFAS, or “forever chemicals” linked to cancer, infertility and immune disorders sparked lawmakers to file half a dozen bills to study the chemicals, regulate them in sewage sludge and ban them …
Read More Google to Spend $500M Revamping Compliance in Shareholder Settlement
Google agreed to spend $500 million over 10 years to overhaul its compliance structure, to settle shareholder litigation accusing the search engine company of antitrust violations, settlement papers show. The preliminary settlement of so-called derivative litigation against officials at Google …
Read More Army Corps Finds Great Lakes Pipeline Tunnel Would Have Major Environmental Impacts
Building an underground tunnel for an aging Enbridge oil pipeline that stretches across a Great Lakes channel could destroy wetlands and harm bat habitats but would eliminate the chances of a boat anchor rupturing the line and causing a catastrophic …
Read More LA City Council Passes Budget That Trims Fire, Police Spending
The Los Angeles City Council approved a $13.9 billion budget proposal for the next fiscal year on Friday, trimming Mayor Karen Bass’s plans to increase public safety spending, in an effort to reduce layoffs amid a nearly $800 million deficit. …
Read More Administration Reverses Course on Planned Closure of Mine Safety Offices
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The Trump administration is dropping plans to terminate leases for 34 offices in the Mine Safety and Health Administration, the agency responsible for enforcing mine safety laws, the Department of Labor said Thursday. Earlier this year, …
Read More Supreme Court Leaves Intact ‘Assault Weapons’ Bans for Now
A divided US Supreme Court declined to consider a new expansion of constitutional gun rights, turning away challenges to a Maryland ban on so-called assault weapons and a Rhode Island prohibition on high-capacity magazines. The justices left intact federal appeals …
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