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Louisiana FedEx Location Sued for Sexual Harassment
Insurance Journal | September 30, 2025
Louisiana FedEx Location Sued for Sexual Harassment
Federal Express Corporation (FedEx) violated federal law by subjecting a female administrator at the company’s St. Rose, Louisiana location to sexual harassment and firing her when she refused to continue to work with her harasser, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity …
People Moves: QBE North America Appoints Cunningham Environmental Underwriting Leader; Gramling Joins Alliant as SVP, Employee Benefits
Insurance Journal | September 30, 2025
People Moves: QBE North America Appoints Cunningham Environmental Underwriting Leader; Gramling Joins Alliant as SVP, Employee Benefits
QBE North America Appoints Cunningham as SVP and Environmental Underwriting Leader QBE North America, headquartered in New York City, appointed Jayne Cunningham as senior vice president and environmental underwriting leader, reporting to Dan Fortin, president of specialty insurance. Based in …
Hackers Hit Hundreds of Cisco Firewalls in US Government
Insurance Journal | September 30, 2025
Hackers Hit Hundreds of Cisco Firewalls in US Government
Hackers compromised firewall devices within the US government, according to a senior federal official, amid broader warnings of cyberattacks on widely-used devices manufactured by Cisco Systems, Inc. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, issued an emergency directive …
House Bill Aims to Combat Forum Shopping in Trucking Industry Lawsuits
Insurance Journal | September 30, 2025
House Bill Aims to Combat Forum Shopping in Trucking Industry Lawsuits
A new bill introduced in Congress would give federal courts original jurisdiction over state venues in limited civil cases involving interstate commercial trucking accidents. The Forum Accountability and Integrity in Roadway (FAIR) Trucking Act, introduced by Congressman Tom Barrett (R-Michigan) …
FAIA Bans Live Animal Displays After PETA Concerns About June Convention
Insurance Journal | September 30, 2025
FAIA Bans Live Animal Displays After PETA Concerns About June Convention
Attendees at the Florida Association of Insurance Agents’ June convention in Orlando may have noticed the live giraffe exhibit at the Marriott World Center. The giraffe won’t make it for the 2026 convention. Nor will any other live animal exhibits. …
Public Adjuster, Already in Prison, Sentenced to Another 19 Years Concurrent
Insurance Journal | September 30, 2025
Public Adjuster, Already in Prison, Sentenced to Another 19 Years Concurrent
A public adjuster who pleaded guilty in March to defrauding Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Co. and a Georgia church out of millions of dollars has been sentenced to 19 years in prison. A federal judge in Georgia last week also ordered …
4 Dead After Flooding in Arizona, Including in Historic Mining Town
Insurance Journal | September 29, 2025
4 Dead After Flooding in Arizona, Including in Historic Mining Town
Four people died after heavy rain caused flooding in Arizona, including three in a rural 19th-century mining town where floodwaters on Friday forced people to seek safety on rooftops and washed out a propane distributorship, scattering about 1,000 tanks downtown. …
Lawmakers Press FEMA on the Future of US Flood Insurance
Insurance Journal | September 29, 2025
Lawmakers Press FEMA on the Future of US Flood Insurance
Two Democratic lawmakers are pressing the Trump administration about its management of the National Flood Insurance Program after cuts at the agency that runs it, the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In a letter to FEMA’s Acting Administrator David Richardson that …
First Radar Images From NASA Satellite Showcase Maine Coast, North Dakota Farmland
Insurance Journal | September 29, 2025
First Radar Images From NASA Satellite Showcase Maine Coast, North Dakota Farmland
NASA’s first radar images from a new Earth-mapping satellite show the Maine coast and North Dakota farmland in incredible detail. The pictures, released Thursday, are from a spacecraft that rocketed into orbit from India two months ago. The joint U.S.-Indian …
Minnesota’s Political Divide Stalls Gun Control Efforts
Insurance Journal | September 29, 2025
Minnesota’s Political Divide Stalls Gun Control Efforts
As Minnesota mourned a mass shooting at a church that left two schoolchildren dead and 21 people injured, Gov. Tim Walz promised to call a special session for the Legislature to pass solutions to gun violence and school safety. But …