Pinnacol Assurance in Denver, Colorado, named Wes Parham vice president of public affairs. Parham will have responsibility for legislative strategy, lobbying efforts, community relations and external advocacy. Parham is an experienced government relations executive with relationships throughout the key regulatory, …

Nationwide Agency Forward survey showed 40% of small business owners surveyed expect a cyberattack to cost less than $1,000 and another 60% think it would take less than three months to fully recover. However, Nationwide claims data shows cyber claims …

Marsh McLennan said today that John Q. Doyle will take over as president and CEO effective January 1, at which point current CEO Daniel S. Glaser will retire. Doyle, 58, was promoted to group president and chief operating officer of …

The Vermont Supreme Court has kept alive a COVID-19 business interruption loss claim by major shipbuilder against a group of reinsurers. The state’s high court ruled that the case brought by Huntington Ingalls Industries Risk Management and its captive insurer …

Australia plans to toughen privacy rules to force companies to notify banks faster when they experience cyber attacks, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday, after hackers targeted the country’s second-largest telecoms firm. Optus, owned by Singapore Telecoms Ltd., said …

Global financial firms, still smarting from multi-billion-dollar losses in Russia, are now reassessing the risks of doing business in Greater China after an escalation of tensions over Taiwan. Lenders including Societe Generale SA, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and UBS Group …

Typhoon Noru battered the Philippines’ main Luzon island, killing five rescuers and leaving millions of people without electricity. The fatalities were recovered from a flooded area in Bulacan province north of Manila, according to a local police report. The entire …

Fiona, the most powerful storm of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season, roared ashore in eastern Nova Scotia early Saturday as one of the strongest systems ever to hit the region, knocking out power, toppling trees and forcing residents to flee. …

August 2022 was the world’s sixth-warmest August in 143 years, according to scientists at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. The warm August wrapped up the Northern Hemisphere’s second-hottest meteorological summer on record. Climate by the numbers August 2022 The …

An electrician sustains a head injury on the job. He signs a mediation agreement absolving the employer of any workers’ compensation liability while he pursues a tort action against the warehouse owner. Five years later, the man’s guardian files a …

An investigation into a fire that destroyed a 40-year-old furniture upholstery business in North Carolina has been turned over to the state Department of Insurance. Morgan Chair, a 25-employee company in Stanfield, North Carolina, was almost completely burned to the …

Maine has opted out of a $440 million multistate settlement with electronic cigarette maker Juul Labs in objection to certain conditions. Maine would have received roughly $11 million over six to 10 years under the agreement announced Sept. 6 that …