Insurance

West Virginia stakeholders have until Sept. 11 to submit comments on what should or should not be on the state’s export list of coverages that can be placed with surplus lines insurers. The Offices of the Insurance Commissioner annually revises …

Almost every former National Football League player who died between 2016 and 2021 and allowed their brains to be evaluated were found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, stark evidence of the toll repeated head impacts can take on athletes. Researchers …

JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley are among banks shareholders are suing over their roles on multibillion-dollar buyout deals after a recent corporate-law overhaul failed to protect financial advisers from potential liability. In cases against financial advisers, shareholders have …

King Risk Partners announced it has acquired the independent insurance agency Norton and Siegel in New York. Established in Babylon Village on the South Shore of Long Island in 1892, Norton and Siegel is a multigenerational agency offering personal and …

Accounting firm Deloitte will pay $21.5 million to settle a U.S. Department of Justice probe over diversity, equity and inclusion practices, which President Donald Trump’s administration has cracked down on during his second term in office. The settlement marks a …

Alphabet’s Google on Tuesday expanded its Gemini Enterprise artificial intelligence platform with new tools for lawyers and law firms, accelerating a race among technology companies to meet legal sector demand for AI. The company said its Gemini Enterprise for Legal …

Alacrity Solutions Group LLC, headquartered in Fishers, Indiana, promoted Lee Boyd to chief operating officer (COO). Backed by over two decades of experience in the insurance industry, Boyd joined Alacrity in 2021 and has held the roles of vice president …

Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway announced that a contractor has pled guilty to defrauding consumers through his residential contracting business. Gene M. Matlock, owner of Matlock Construction, pled guilty on August 17 to one felony count of deceptive business practices …

Elected officials and industry leaders warn that Texas is at the “precipice” of running out of underground space to dispose of the nearly 1 billion gallons of wastewater that oil and gas production generates every day in the Permian Basin. …

Inszone Insurance Services announced the acquisition of Harris Insurance Services. This strategic acquisition strengthens Inszone’s personal lines footprint in Oklahoma, bringing a respected, century-old family agency into the Inszone family. Founded in 1925 by Charles R. Harris and later incorporated …