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Archive: November 2022

Kansas City to Pay $5M After Police Killing of Black Man
Insurance Journal | November 9, 2022
Kansas City to Pay $5M After Police Killing of Black Man
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Kansas City will pay $5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of an unarmed Black man who was fatally shot by a police officer in 2019. The Kansas City Board of Police …
Ryan Specialty Acquires Centurion in California
Insurance Journal | November 1, 2022
Ryan Specialty Acquires Centurion in California
Ryan Specialty acquired certain assets of Centurion Liability Insurance Services LLC in Tustin, California. Centurion is a professional lines wholesale insurance broker and has employees based in Florida and California. Prior to the acquisition, Centurion was partially owned by Insurance …
Kansas City Officer Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Black Teenager
Insurance Journal | November 1, 2022
Kansas City Officer Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Black Teenager
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) _ A Kansas City, Missouri, police officer who kneed a Black 15-year-old in the neck and pushed his face into the ground pleaded guilty Thursday to third-degree assault and lost his law enforcement license. Sgt. Matthew …
Suspect in Oklahoma Murder-Suicide Was Plagued by Workplace Head Injury
Insurance Journal | November 1, 2022
Suspect in Oklahoma Murder-Suicide Was Plagued by Workplace Head Injury
BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (AP) – An Oklahoma couple considered “primary suspects” in last week’s killings of their six children faced growing financial pressures and the husband experienced recurring pain from a workplace head injury, according to family members. Eight people …
Historic Indiana Building Collapses Amid Renovation
Insurance Journal | November 1, 2022
Historic Indiana Building Collapses Amid Renovation
A nearly 150-year-old building that was in the midst of a renovation collapsed in a northwestern Indiana city, scattering bricks and debris onto a street but causing no injuries, officials said. No one was inside the three-story building when a …
World Insurance Associates Acquires Clinard Group in North Carolina
Insurance Journal | November 1, 2022
World Insurance Associates Acquires Clinard Group in North Carolina
World Insurance Associates, one of the larger brokerage firms in the country, has acquired North Carolina-based Clinard Insurance Group. WIA, headquartered in Iselin, New Jersey, announced that it had purchased Clinard on Oct. 1. Terms were not disclosed. Clinard, or …
Man Pleads Guilty to $2M Fraud in Prudential-Administered Military Injury Program
Insurance Journal | November 1, 2022
Man Pleads Guilty to $2M Fraud in Prudential-Administered Military Injury Program
A former U.S. Navy chief petty officer, now living in Georgia, has pleaded guilty to being the ringleader in a $2 million scheme that claimed unusual injuries to defraud a disability program, administered by The Prudential, that was designed for …
Can More Rigorous Accounting Lead to Fewer Workplace Injuries?
Insurance Journal | November 1, 2022
Can More Rigorous Accounting Lead to Fewer Workplace Injuries?
Businesses wanting to make their workplaces safer might try adopting a more rigorous accounting system. A new study finds a link between a firm’s workplace injuries and the information quality in its accounting statements. Danye Wang, assistant professor of accounting …
Prosecutors Probing New Mexico Movie Set Shooting
Insurance Journal | November 1, 2022
Prosecutors Probing New Mexico Movie Set Shooting
A sheriff’s department submitted its investigative findings to prosecutors in the death of a cinematographer shot and killed by Alec Baldwin on a film set in New Mexico in October 2021. Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office spokesman Juan Rios said that …
Alaska Village Resists Despite Climate, Flooding Threats
Insurance Journal | November 1, 2022
Alaska Village Resists Despite Climate, Flooding Threats
Search online for the little town of Shishmaref and you’ll see homes perilously close to the ocean, and headlines that warn this Native community in western Alaska is on the verge of disappearing. Climate change is partially to blame for …