Two police unions in Boston want to roll back limits on when they can use tear gas, pepper spray and other less-than-lethal crowd control methods, which the City Council implemented last year. The two unions are asking a judge to …

Florida’s top insurance regulators and the Florida Association of Insurance Agents on Thursday blasted the Demotech financial rating firm after the organization reportedly notified 17 insurers that they will soon be downgraded. Demotech President Joe Petrelli said Thursday evening that …

An Indianapolis doctor who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio took the first step Tuesday toward suing Indiana’s attorney general for defamation. Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist who gave the girl a medication-induced abortion on …

In 2021, Florida’s domestic property insurers spent more than $3 billion on legal defense costs and containment – double the figure reported in 2016. That’s one jaw-dropping but not surprising takeaway from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation’s recently posted …

Brown & Company Insurance Services, an employee benefits and individual life and health insurance agency in College Station, Texas, has combined with Higginbotham, an insurance, financial and HR services firm ranked as the 20th largest independent broker in the U.S. …

This edition of International People Moves details board changes at Beazley and appointments at Miller and AXA XL. A summary of these new hires follows here. Beazley’s Chair Roberts to Step Down Beazley plc announced that its chair, David Roberts …

A former East Texas deputy has pleaded guilty to a civil rights violation for punching a restrained detainee in the chest repeatedly with a shock gun, according to court documents. Former Van Zandt County sheriff’s deputy David Yager pleaded guilty …

Liberty Mutual Global Risk Solutions Names Geary President, Insurance Solutions Liberty Mutual Insurance Global Risk Solutions (GRS) has appointed Elizabeth Geary as president, Insurance Solutions. Geary will report to GRS President of Underwriting Matthew Moore, effective late August. Geary is …

The Oakland City Council agreed to approve a $360,000 settlement with a former council member who filed a lawsuit alleging the city and police violated his civil rights when officers threw him face-down inside City Hall in an incident he …

TikTok faces a claim that its algorithm steers more violent videos to minority subscribers than to White users in a lawsuit blaming the platform for the death of a 14-year-old African-American girl. The complaint, which also names Meta Platforms Inc., …

Non-profit OS Climate on Wednesday launched the first in a series of free tools to drive climate-friendly decision making by companies, financial institutions and governments. As a project of the Linux Foundation, a non-profit technology consortium founded in 2000 that …

Brutal heatwaves are gripping both Europe and the United States this week and are forecast to dump searing heat on much of China into late August. In addition to temperatures spiking above 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), wildfires are raging across …