Frontier Airlines has settled a lawsuit filed by female pilots who accused the airline of discriminating against pregnant or breastfeeding employees. In the agreement Frontier will let pilots pump breast milk in the cockpit during “noncritical phases” of flights. The …

Pennsylvania has established a task force to recommend policies to make flood insurance more affordable. The Flood Insurance Premium Assistance Task Force will examine potential programs that provide premium discounts, incentives for local governments to support flood mitigation efforts, necessary …

Atain Insurance Companies, headquartered in Farmington Hills, Mich., hired Cara Delestienne as vice president and head of binding authority. Delestienne has over two decades of insurance industry experience, most recently serving as vice president operations at MacNeill Group, Inc. She …

The Independent Insurance Agents of Illinois announced it will rebrand to Big I Illinois in 2024. The Illinois association’s rebranding will better reflect a name that has resonated with agents, carriers, and lawmakers throughout the organization’s 125-year history, the association …

As maritime accidents go, the collision between the M/V Strandja and the M/V Kieffer E. Bailey on the Mississippi River was hardly a catastrophe. A jury determined that damages amounted to only $114,000. But the accident did provide an opportunity …

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A Texas prosecutor whose office oversaw indictments against more than 20 Austin police officers for tactics used during the 2020 protests that followed George Floyd`s killing said Monday he was dropping most of the cases and …

DETROIT (AP) – U.S. auto safety regulators said Monday they are monitoring data from a group of mostly unrecalled Takata air bag inflators after one of them exploded in a BMW and hurled metal fragments that seriously injured a driver …

The University of Pennsylvania was sued by a pair of students who claim the campus was a hotbed of antisemitism even before Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7. Penn became the third major US college, after New York University and …

Persistently strong underwriting performance during and after the global pandemic – despite substantial economic and capital markets volatility – has prompted AM Best to maintain its “stable” outlook for the US property/casualty commercial lines segment. Premium rates for most of …

A magnitude 5.1 earthquake on the Big Island of Hawaii was felt widely, but there were no reports of damage or injury, officials said. The earthquake hit at 5:54 p.m.on Monday near the Kilauea volcano at a depth of 1 …

Denver-based insurance brokerage IMA Financial Group reports it is expanding its employee benefits practice nationally with the acquisition of EBS Insurance Brokers of Newton, Massachusetts. EBS and its 30 employees offer health and welfare plan administration, executive and international benefits …

Solar farms around the world are under threat due to costly hailstorm-related claims, according to renewable energy underwriter GCube Insurance. Hail was the costliest category for insurance claims by the renewables industry in the last five years, averaging around $58.4 …