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Archive: July 2025

Los Angeles Sues Airbnb for Alleged Price Gouging Following Wildfires
Insurance Journal | July 18, 2025
Los Angeles Sues Airbnb for Alleged Price Gouging Following Wildfires
Los Angeles sued Airbnb, accusing the home rental company of allowing price gouging affecting at least 2,000 properties during January’s wildfires in Southern California, City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto said on Friday. According to a complaint filed in Los Angeles …
People Moves: Encova Insurance Names Two New Senior Leadership Team Members; NI Holdings Inc. Names Dawson SVP and CHRO
Insurance Journal | July 18, 2025
People Moves: Encova Insurance Names Two New Senior Leadership Team Members; NI Holdings Inc. Names Dawson SVP and CHRO
Encova Insurance Names Two New Senior Leadership Team Members Encova Insurance Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer John Kessler will retire at the end of 2026 after more than 40 years of dedicated service to the company. As part …
Survivors’ Lawyers Allege Decades of Systemic Abuse in Illinois Detention Facilities
Insurance Journal | July 18, 2025
Survivors’ Lawyers Allege Decades of Systemic Abuse in Illinois Detention Facilities
Illinois has one of the nation’s worst problems with child sex abuse at juvenile detention centers, attorneys representing more than 900 survivors who have filed lawsuits said Wednesday. Dozens of complaints, including several filed this week in Chicago, allege decades …
Cayman Islands Approves 21 New International Insurance Licenses During H1
Insurance Journal | July 18, 2025
Cayman Islands Approves 21 New International Insurance Licenses During H1
The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA), which represents the international insurance industry in the British overseas territory, reported that licenses have been approved for 21 new international insurers during the first half of this year. Between April and June, CIMA …
Deadly History of Flooding in ‘Flash Flood Alley’ Along Guadalupe River
Insurance Journal | July 10, 2025
Deadly History of Flooding in ‘Flash Flood Alley’ Along Guadalupe River
Cindy Manley was a summer camp counselor in 1987 when a different devastating flood scarred the Texas Hill Country. The Heart O’ the Hills camp is on the Guadalupe River, where a massive search continues for more than 160 people …
Nebraska Sues GM Over Alleged Unauthorized Collection of Driving Data
Insurance Journal | July 10, 2025
Nebraska Sues GM Over Alleged Unauthorized Collection of Driving Data
Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers filed a lawsuit this week alleging General Motors and its telematics service provider OnStar collected driving data without consumers’ knowledge or consent to create driving scores that were later sold to insurance companies and used …
Michigan Nursing Homes to Pay $4.5M Settlement Over Substandard Care Allegations
Insurance Journal | July 10, 2025
Michigan Nursing Homes to Pay $4.5M Settlement Over Substandard Care Allegations
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced a $4.5 million settlement with six Detroit-area nursing homes and their ownership companies, Villa Financial Services LLC and Villa Olympia Investment LLC, over allegations that they accepted taxpayer funds while providing grossly substandard care …
People Moves: McLarens Appoints Miller as Chief Global Strategy Officer
Insurance Journal | July 10, 2025
People Moves: McLarens Appoints Miller as Chief Global Strategy Officer
Global claims services provider McLarens has appointed Danny Miller as Chief Global Strategy Officer (CGSO), a newly created role within the firm’s Global Management Team (GMT). This strategic addition to the leadership team reflects McLarens’ continued growth and commitment to …
What Flood Insurance Does and Does Not Cover
Insurance Journal | July 10, 2025
What Flood Insurance Does and Does Not Cover
Though natural disasters cycle across seasons and regions in the U.S., it’s often a shocking discovery for property owners how expansive and expensive flood and water damage can be when a major storm devastates their homes, businesses and communities. That’s …
Honduran Woman Sentenced for Defrauding NorGUARD of Comp Premiums
Insurance Journal | July 10, 2025
Honduran Woman Sentenced for Defrauding NorGUARD of Comp Premiums
A Honduras woman this week was sentenced to less than two years in federal prison for her role in paying Florida construction workers off the books and avoiding $1.2 million in workers’ compensation premiums and almost $2 million in federal …