California’s 2025 minimum and maximum temporary total disability rates will increase on Jan. 1, 2025, the Division of Workers’ Compensation announced. The minimum TTD rate will increase from $242.86 to $252.03, and the maximum TTD rate will increase from $1,619.15 …

The Vessel, a towering, honeycomb-like sculpture in Manhattan that was popular with tourists before a series of suicides forced its closure in 2021, will reopen Monday with new safety features. The 150-foot (46-meter) structure opened in 2019 as the centerpiece …

The Arkansas Insurance Hall of Fame honored five inductees and awarded seven scholarships to insurance students at its annual banquet in Conway on Oct. 17. The banquet was held on the campus of the University of Central Arkansas. The 2024 …

Family Fresh Harvesting, LLC, a farm labor contractor which provides temporary H-2A visas to agricultural workers at nurseries in Michigan and farms in Georgia, entered into a conciliation agreement with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to resolve a …

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A family is settling a wrongful death lawsuit against Ohio police who fired 94 bullets at a Black man during a chase two years ago. Jayland Walker’s family and the city of Akron reached an agreement …

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against a Dallas pediatrician, accusing her of violating state law by providing gender-transitioning treatments to at least 21 teenage patients. Thursday’s filing is Paxton’s first attempt at suing a doctor by …

Hurricanes Helene and Milton devastated swaths of the southeastern US by bringing too much water. Now, communities are struggling with the opposite problem: too little of it. The North Fork Water Treatment Plant supplies most of the drinking water to …

Florida’s insurance commissioner this week issued emergency orders, extending some policyholder cancellation protections in the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton. The orders, seen here and here, are in line with similar actions taken after hurricanes. The orders: Extend grace …

Two Sudanese nationals were indicted by US prosecutors for their alleged participation in a group known as “Anonymous Sudan” that conducted cyberattacks against US government agencies, airports and a major hospital in Los Angeles. The group relied on distributed-denial-of-service attacks, …

Oakbridge Insurance Agency is expanding again, this time with the addition of Tuscaloosa, Alabama-based Hull & Associates, an agency that has specialized in finding coverage for student housing in and around the home of the University of Alabama. Richard Hull …

People who voted to settle their baby power-related health claims against Johnson & Johnson should have their ballots thrown out because the consumer products giant rigged the tally, according to lawyers for holdout claimants. The company organized a vote of …

MENDENHALL, Miss. (AP) — Three people were killed and four were seriously injured Wednesday when a bridge in Mississippi that was closed nearly a month ago collapsed while a work crew was prepping it for demolition, authorities said. The bridge …

Three of the world’s biggest tobacco companies are near a possible deal to resolve longstanding claims in Canada that they held back information about the health risks of cigarettes. Under the proposal from a court-appointed mediator, Canadian subsidiaries of Philip …

The US opened a federal investigation into whether Tesla Inc.’s partial-automation system marketed as Full Self-Driving is defective after a series of crashes, one of which resulted in a fatality. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday it will …

Four men have been charged with defrauding New York auto insurers by allegedly submitting more than $10 million in fraudulent claims for psychological services —and then laundering the proceeds of that fraud through a network of illicit check cashers. Damian …

Japanese insurer Tokio Marine has paused the sale of its $1 billion Southeast Asia life insurance business, partly due to a dispute with a Malaysian partner over an expiring products distribution agreement, four sources with knowledge of the matter said. …

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at AXA XL Reinsurance and Specialist Risk Group. A summary of these new hires follows here. AXA XL Re Taps Swiss Re’s Schiffer as CEO, North America, Reinsurance AXA XL Reinsurance announced …

Coalition, the San Francisco-based cyber managing general agent and cybersecurity firm, has become the first cyber insurance provider in the UK to launch a service dedicated to recovering funds stolen by cyber attackers. The cyber insurer’s new UK “clawback” service …

The UK said three government bodies are working together to challenge Russian shadow fleet oil tankers if it perceives they have dubious insurance. An announcement from the country’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office didn’t specify how such interventions would occur, …

Insurance industry investments in generative AI are expected to surge by over 300 percent from 2023 to 2025 as organizations move from pilots in one or two areas to implementations in multiple functions across business lines. But new research identifies …